the annual apocalypse has arrived a wee bit early this year

Summit fire 1

There's been a pretty nasty wildfire raging in the Santa Cruz mountains for the past couple of days. Usually wildfire season doesn't start until late summer/early autumn, but we had one of the driest Aprils on record, followed by intense wind for a lot of May.

Even here in Fremont you can tell there's a fire somewhere. The air quality is very poor--my eyes are burning. The sky is all hazy, and you can even smell it.

It looks like they're getting it under way though, and the weather's cooperating. It might even rain a little bit this weekend.

Spring in the Bay Area is a schizophrenic time of year. The weather flip-flops from one extreme to the other. In the space of one week, it went from triple-digit record heat, to cold and windy. The temperature dropped about 30 degrees over a 3-day period. It can make biking a trial, because you never know what to wear. I try to remember my mother's advice: Dress in layers!