Hurricane Harbor: Meteorological Spring! March. OSCAR Sunday. Fire Weather in Carolinas. Still Cleaning Up From Hurricane Season in W NC......

I found this yesterday.

Wild scribbled thoughts on pics I did.

Year my mother died when writing....

...writing in a diary was difficult.

Paradise Lost this year in LA.

Actually several pics of Malibu...

...in a visual journal I kept that year.

things cut off that are private ;)

March 2nd, 2025

March marching in like a lion in some places or a sneaky fox as there's winter weather out West and in parts of the Carolinas it's fire weather as it's sunny, cool and yet dry windy weather in some areas of our beautiful region and that's known as Fire Weather. This can be deceiving as you look outside and think "perfect day for a BBQ" and yet not really if you live in a region with fire weather. Humidity way down (yay) but so low down that I woke up with my head all fuzzy and reading about fires last night in an area I love in South Carolina. Low humidity is nice, but when you have sinus issues it does funky, fuzzy things to your head.

Sipping coffee this morning slowly, savoring the moments as I watch the morning sun illuminate the new red growth on my maple tree that's reminding me that in this region Winter is on the wane and Spring is springing at us fast! Can yellow pops popping on the Pine trees be far behind?

Social media is a hard place to be right now and oh what's that saying, let me think...

There it is! Good ole Google. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself... " blah blah blah... you know the quote. Rudyard Kipling who I share a birthday with (day not year ...obviously) was a Capricorn so he was always trying to arrange and organize something including his peace of mind! I have a Sagittarius friend who cheerfully always says: "Do what you love!" but they have their Mercury in Capricorn..... I know this is not an astrology blog, but it is my blog and I made it years ago in a tropically dull June when everyone else was fighting with each other on message boards about how slow a season it would or wouldn't be. It was a busy season, people feel the need to argue things that are hard to know ....especially when it comes to the future.

I do feel badly for anyone who lost their jobs or is afraid they will lose their jobs. In truth, I also feel badly for people I know who lost their jobs in the same government agencies because they didn't trust the vaccine and were let go, fired without benefits. I have friends who worked for Disney companies who lost their jobs as they didn't want "a jab" "vaccine" "shot" and felt bad for people who were getting Covid and dying. I also feel bad for many who died early on before we knew the best way to treat the lousy disease and yes we an always say "everything is meant to be" yet that's a sucky thing to say to someone who is suffering. I'm not posting my thoughts on X though I am liking posts others write at times. It's my quiet season when I blog less, watch the weather forecast less and don't obsess on the water vapor loop too much. Trying to Ignore politics tho it ain't easy ....

You can go to sites for quotes and get a quote on inspiration for happiness or depression, laziness or ambition and note someone is always charging for inspiration somewhere. Writers need inspiration and often they steal inspiration from their muse as did F. Scott Fitzgerald whose literature I love and yet I always know he took parts of it from his wife Zelda's diaries and never really gave her credit, and yet he did make her famous. Also locked her up in Asheville when she wanted a divorce and wanted to dance and wasn't producing properly. Wow......I sound jaded don't I? I practically have a Masters in F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda and writers of that period writing about the American Dream.

Some dreams turn dark over time.

And, I'll add for many writers Mother Nature is their muse always. Watching a full moon rising in the sky, reaching out to embrace it but it's too far away so they simply write their heart out ...after being inspired by the full moon climbing high in the sky.

Weather is a touchy subject these days.

I remember back in school we were always being told some jobs would disapeer due to computers that can do everything faster and better and that was before AI. That was before I used to use Metacrawlers (Google it) at the library on the reference desk. My brother is a Real Estate Appraiser, our father was a Real Estate Appraiser, and he's constantly told they can just use "Zillow" to get a price value and being an Appraiser is a job that may be eliminated in the near future as less and less companies are demanding an appraisal by a certified Real Estate Appraiser. And, yes the computer can spit out an estimated value, an approximate value yet they lack the nuances a real human being knows about land values in the area and the reason prices may go up or down and how much your house is really worth. He's working, he's busy but he does see the writing on the wall and he's at that age where he will probably retire before they are totally eliminated. But how much of this is about this subject and how a computer can do this or that and slash the budget. I worked for the government library and there's a lot of fat in budgets and usually not fed to the people working there or the needs of the patrons. And, a good government job comes with chains around your feet, your brain and your hands at times as you can't just say your mind nor can you expect someone, somewhere won't complain about something you did and write the Mayor.

Ya.... it's a mess. And, you can't ignore it even if you want to as you go to a site such as Earthnull and get this message reminding you, reminding us of the realities of life in 2025.

Note.........I left, jumped to a job at a Private University managing their library at a new campus as I was getting tired of the drama and low pay at the city library. While my job was secure they'd let people go often at the drop of a hat because they suddenly realized they were over budget and cut the people who were not full time but working 38 hours a week with no notice. Not such a good government job. The University gave my older kids nearing college age free tuition and I had great benefits including a guard downstairs that didn't allow crazy people into the library to play practical jokes as the city library was a shit show at times tho sometimes funny. My own strange problems.... you have you not really lived until you see a huge old schooner parked in the parking lot blocking the whole entrance seemingly abandoned there and the library director freaking "who would leave this boat there like this" and then you see the name on the "boat" freshly painted and you quietly sneak into the library like "I saw nothing" and I should mention it was a block from the beach and I could wander over at lunch and get great pics as a developing tropical storm was sliding by our beach producing real waves and squalls! Great job choice though it was scary leaving a job where I was treated well and in the process of raising a lot of kids on my own. What if the University closed? What if..... in the end I got married, left the job and my friends there and it was a good choice though I did miss my friends at the City library.

This is my blog, it's my journal and other than the Fire Weather today :( there is no real weather to talk on in my neck of the woods. There is no tropical storm or Invest or tropical wave or cluster of clouds in the Caribbean on satellite imagery. Just little red blossom like things bouncing in the breeze reminding me we are one step closer to closing the door on Winter and 91 days til Hurricane Season.

May I mention the NC Government is still trying to get a bill passed for Western NC ravaged by Hurricane Helene (the H Storm not the M storm) and we are 91 days away from Hurricane Season. This upset me as it should have been done a long time ago. Thank God for the private groups that got help in there and the Storm Chasers who have been chasing charity and finding homes and trailers as many have been riding out a cold, nasty winter in tents until recently when supplies began to roll in and hey NC government is close to finalizing a bill. Just no words and that's all I'll say on that.

March 1st is Meteorological Spring. A short February gets us there faster than other seasons.

I do have one issue that bugs me and it is meteorological in nature.

This fire was dangerously close to places I love.

Any fire is bad especially when the wind blows.

But the dry marsh and vegetation on fire...

...is really not good.

And, people live there to enjoy the beautiful views.

I went to the NWS to see the warnings.

Fire Weather needs more attention here.

If it was a Hurricane Warning there'd be graphics.

A red link that someone may or may not click on...

...is not enough.

Sorry but true.

Maybe a red border or a fire sybol?

Please think on that.

You look at the graphics and think "oh my gosh gorgeous weather for a BBQ" and few click on the little red links. Same way people go to the main page at the NHC and it says nothing happening and they never click on the little link that shows that something might be forming later in the week.

In the world of 2025 where to be honest Mike can make graphics and say "the NHC will probably draw a Cone something like this" there should be a better visual, better graphics where it's one stop for all and people see the whole picture. The Cone is similar, but Mike can add in his little details whereas the image from the NHC is static and it's 2025 it should not be static.

This is not impacted by firings at the NWS ....it's a mindset.... it's a refusal to really make changes in the year 2025 for the general public to see ALL the information on one screen without clicking on links. While some changes were made last year, they are all in all minor and it's a refusal to let go of the past and what was once Iconic and make upgrades. This is said by someone who is often accused not letting go of the past. I wish the main page at the NHC looked more like Zoom Earth.

Lastly.............where's the money to fix the buoys that have not worked and not been fixed forever and are in theory an important tool for forecasters to use especially come hurricane season.

I woke up this morning and reached for my phone slowly, not wanting to get up yet. I had to force myself to do so and the thought occured to me if this was Hurricane Season I'd grab my phone half asleep trying to find info on a developing Invest. Then I remembered there's no football games, no hurricanes and maybe I should just go back to sleep. And, I did.....

It's my blog..........it's my diary. Lord knows I have blogged way too much personal stuff but we are over 80 days away from Hurricane Season, tho as Dabuh reminds us the changes in the tropics begin well in advance of June 1st so keep that in mind.

Winds out of the North.

Not done with Winter yet.

Tho doubt we get snow again...

I sat for a while on Saturday, my Sabbath that I am offline, and read through some old diaries and "to do" notebooks and it's amazing what you remember when you see things you put there to remind yourself to remember down the road. And, that's good we all need a bit of centering sometimes. The image above on Malibu hit me and I remembered writing it, scribbling my thoughts on a beautiful picture. Another one showed a different angle of Malibu and had notes on it's history. Now it has new history. Usually the biggest concern was boulders falling down onto Pacific Coast Highway aka PCH.

Gotta tell you.

Curve of the coast........

...and lay of the land.

The mountains from this angle always awesome.

Someone should do a movie about Malibu.

Motion Picture Industry

1920s...

One of my degree is in English and the other in International Relations with special emphasis in Russian Studies so you really should be glad I am not going there today. Nor am I going long on the Kurds and how they always get screwed in foreign policy as we kiss up to Turkey and ignore the one country in the region that allows women to be fighter pilots and they are some of the best and baddest yet they are surrounded by countries that don't even allow women to go out in public without a male relative. Seriously, where are our priorities? Treaties can help us and treaties can tie us down with chains.

Jobs can be that way too. They feed us, they fuel our daily lives and yet not everyone is happy in a good government job. I met a man recently at a business event my husband was attending who runs some business he started on his own and is making huge money. Everyone said I need to meet him as he's a meteorologist. I was almost livid inside like "why would he be doing THAT?" (think it's dog grooming or something like that) and he told me he wasn't getting paid enough. He has a Masters in Meteorology, loves weather but he had to make a living and he can follow the weather as a hobby. My husband has a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management as he grew up in a family that owned a hotel and restaurant in the Catskills... he decided he'd rather do something else tho he does love to cook and is a trained chef and volunteers his time cooking and arranging events at our Synagogue.

Do what you love!

Indeed, good advice from a wonderful friend!

But, not always easy.

I love writing. I'm writing this morning.

How about you?

At some point I'll go to Sephora and return something that was the wrong color and buy something I like. And, I'll probably watch the Oscars because well I grew up watching the Oscars and I've lived in LA and been there during Oscar hoopla :) and it's a sad time for people who live there :( and watched their homes and lives go up in flames. Will they stick to that topic or get all political? I'm a purist, the OSCARS should be about Hollywood, glamour and respecting the writers, producer/directors and actors and the people who write the music and design the costumes....

Time will tell.

Prayers for anyone who has lost a job or who is in fear of losing a job. Prayers the buoys get fixed before hurricane season (probably won't happen) and sorry for those who lost their jobs back when 2020s turned out not be to as fun as the Roaring 20s.....

I pray a lot. A girl can only do so much and I like to believe prayer works.

If not it distracts me at least from writing way too much personal stuff in my blog. But, hey... it's March and that's about March Madeness where I live not hurricane season.

Why are you reading this? Hopefully some people are too busy to read this ...this week!

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on X and other social media tho X is mostly just weather updates.