Killer attacking #Los_Angeles homeless while they sleep. Reminds me of #NYC killer who killed two at a corner wher #sonOne and I passed a week earlier. !SoCal
Baldwin Park is along the #I-10 east of #Los_Angeles. I used to hear regular reports of slowdowns on the freeway in that area due to "police activity".
Fire shuts down the #I-10 in #Los_Angeles indefinitely until CDoT / #CalTrans can evaluate possible damage to the concrete. Governor Newsom declares emergency. !SoCal
Because it is so destructive to agriculture, #California dept of food and agriculture will be releasing 250K sterile male medflies per week to try and prevent reproduction. I remember walking home at night with one of my brothers after work while helicopters were spraying malathion laced bait to stop an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies in the #SGV San Gabriel Valley.
A younger brother worked at a different, more distant mall. He used to catch a bus from his mall to mine, and we'd walk home together. Later on, I saw people wearing t-shirts with the name of one of the affected communities and "medfly" with a drawing of a fly.
At the time, some were worried about the effects of the pesticide on humans, pets, and on vehicle paint. But 40+ years later, I am unaware of any effects that could be blamed on malathion.
Rich neighborhood. In !SoCal's #SGV, they sprayed malathion-laced bait. I remember walking home from the mall after work as helicopters sprayed from overhead.
I think all the North American deserts are rain-shadow deserts. By this I mean that in the direction of the prevailing winds, there are mountain ranges that parallel the coastline. Most of the moisture is squeezed out of the air by going over the mountains ⛰️ leaving large areas where the annual evaporation exceeds the annual rainfall.
This is exacerbated by the fact that the oceanic currents West of us are relatively cold. They don’t add as much moisture to the atmosphere as warm currents do.
There are several different deserts 🏜️, which can be divided along elevation, geology, precipitation, other climate measures, and by the biological organisms that live there. So for instance, the #High_Desert and #Intermediate_Desert ares of !SoCal have specific plants 🌱 and animals that live there. The #Low_Desert consist of multiple sub deserts with different climates and life forms. These deserts are generally located at lower elevations as well as being to the south of the other deserts. Most of the Low Deserts are subsets of the Sonoran Desert.
The !SoCal #High_Desert (elevation 3000 feet and higher) and #Intermediate_Desert (below 3000 feet, but still higher and more northerly than the low deserts), which are portions of the #Mojave_Desert, are expecting peak temperatures of 100⁰F / 38⁰C and up, while the #Low_Desert (including the Colorado Desert, Sonoran Desert, and a couple of other smaller deserts) are expecting 110⁰F / 43⁰C and up.
Excessive heat warnings issued across much of desert areas of #CA, #NV, #AZ. Stay out of the heat as much as possible.
I saw a video where they said that California #SR39 is discontinuous, with a 22 mile long interruption. Since I used to bicycle down that road with friends, I knew I'd seen highway signs along the route, including in the interrupted section.