Direct mp3 download or play: The Pineapple Express of 12-12-2010
Heavy rain falling on the bamboo behind my house.
Direct mp3 download or play: Less Rain, More Wind
Less Rain, More Wind
This is some the sound of steady, heavy rain which fell late on December 11th through the middle of December 12th 2010. In a little more than 12 hours, I received three-and-two-thirds inches of rain, and some areas around Seattle received over 10 inches. As you can see on a National Weather Service water vapor satellite picture I included, a stream of white appears to come up from the Hawaiian Islands and head straight for the Pacific Northwest, bypassing California completely. This condition is known as a “Hawaiian” storm, but more recently it goes by the more colorful name “Pineapple Express.” I guess the idea of where pineapples are grown makes this name more dramatic and exciting. To learn more go here.
Since I recently had my house painted, the outside microphones were removed. I simply placed the same microphones in windows about twenty feet apart. More information about how I made this and other recordings of this kind, check out my other posts here.
U. S. National Weather Service water vapor satellite picture, Dec. 12, 2010, 5 AM Pacific Standard Time.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI have nothing important or interesting to add here, but thanks for another bout of the rain….
I spoke too soon. I thought California would stay high and dry in this La Niña winter season. Later in December 2010, some mountainous areas in southern California received as much as 24 inches of rain.
We got about three and 1/2 days of rain down here (Grover Beach, central coastal Cali.) during this Pineapple run and caused quite a lot of flooding, but it didn’t break the 2009 record of 5 straight days. That was nice but the level of flooding from that one spoke for itself.