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Friday, February 15, 2019
No stone left unturned?
It was a dramatic weather day on Bodega Head (15 February 2019). Several intense squalls passed over, with some producing small hail. For the record, here's a photo and a video taken at ~1:15 p.m. The largest hailstones were ~5 mm across.
The video below is ~20 seconds long. (If you can't see the video player, click here to go to the web page.)
Reminds me of a cold snap in early seventies (forget exact year) when Jim Carlton and I returned from a collecting trip to Vancouver Island in I think late December. There was snow and ice all the way down the coast. Springs were frozen where Salmon Creek Beach meets Bodega Head and a snowy owl was spotted at the lab. There was also snow on the hills behind Bodega Bay. That was also when we crashed the car three times due to snow and ice on Hwy 1 from Olympic Peninsula to Bodega Bay. :)
Interesting story! I hadn't heard that one yet. Peter shared a photo of the Snowy Owl in the Bodega Dunes in 1974, and I posted it on the blog a few years ago:
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Reminds me of a cold snap in early seventies (forget exact year) when Jim Carlton and I returned from a collecting trip to Vancouver Island in I think late December. There was snow and ice all the way down the coast. Springs were frozen where Salmon Creek Beach meets Bodega Head and a snowy owl was spotted at the lab. There was also snow on the hills behind Bodega Bay. That was also when we crashed the car three times due to snow and ice on Hwy 1 from Olympic Peninsula to Bodega Bay. :)
Hi, James!
Interesting story! I hadn't heard that one yet. Peter shared a photo of the Snowy Owl in the Bodega Dunes in 1974, and I posted it on the blog a few years ago:
https://bodegahead.blogspot.com/2014/01/snowy-memories.html
:) Jackie
The Snowy Owl in 1974 must have been the one.
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