Posted on 08/25/2007 5:32:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
CBS) LOS ANGELES Residents in eastern areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties are experiencing the remnants of Hurricane Dean in the form of muggy air and thunderheads.
A blast of tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico has blown all the way to California. When the air meets updrafts from the mountains, it creates thunderheads, according to a meteorologist at the National Weather Service.
A thunderstorm watch has been put in effect for Southern California mountains and deserts as far north as Big Lear Lake. It will continue until 8 p.m. Saturday and is likely to be repeated Sunday, Steve Vanderburg said.
"It's so humid out there today, it is taking a lot longer to heat up the clouds," he said. "But they are out there getting ready for some action this afternoon."
At midday, the Weather Service radar was showing a thunderstorm in the Riverside County mountains near Palm Springs and Idylwild as well as another storm near Big Bear Lake.
"They are not moving much at all yet, but the flow is out of the east, and if the storms develop they will push off to the west or northwest," he said. "They could even drift over to the coast."
We’re seeing them up here in the Angeles Forest now.
What I want to know is this: is George Bush going to finally step up and do something about this situation, or is he going to once again wait until it’s too late and thereby condemn millions of innocent Angelinos to misery and suffering that could have easily been prevented. It is shameful... a shameful, but undeniable truth, that in the year 2007 the federal government cannot rouse itself to react to these dangerous and life-threatening levels of mugginess, in a city, and a state, that has already suffered to a far-too-great extent from apathy and discrimination from this administration and from the Republican Party.
Bump to the almost constant thunder this morning in coastal orange county.
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