January and early February sailing conditions out of Channel Islands Harbor kicked our sailing season into high gear. There has been an inordinate amount of warm days with gentle winds. In fact, January for the most part, was warmer than July! The real test of these statements though is the Membership roster at our sailing [...]

La Niña kicked El Niño to the proverbial curb early this Summer. This caused Summer to never really arrive in Southern California. Now “the baby” is predicted to stick it out into the Winter which is predicted to cause drought conditions during the only period of the year that SoCal counts on for rain. A [...]

When I first got to the coast, I had fled from a lifetime of what I referred to as “snow farming”, aka working in the snow skiing industry. I wasn’t going to have to worry much about weather anymore I thought wistfully…after all if there was going to be any weather it was going to [...]