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Sunday November 30, 2025 · 4:05 PM PST

2025/11/30 · 16:05

The diary for today’s meeting didn’t manifest, so I’m throwing this together and asking you a basic question to give us a place to hang comments. It’s one of the top five basic questions for small talk in awkward situations (that doesn’t involve sports):

How’s your weather?

I’ll answer first — it really sucks but it’s also encouraging because the weather this time of year traditionally has these sucky spells known as tule fog. Here’s wikipedia’s explanation.

Tule fog is a radiation fog, which condenses when there is a high relative humidity (typically after a heavy rain), calm winds, and rapid cooling during the night. The nights are longer in the winter months, which allows an extended period of ground cooling, and thereby a pronounced temperature inversion at a low altitude.

This tule fog has covered over 600 miles of California’s Central Valley and lasted five days so far (or longer? I’ve lost count) and is combined with a persistent inversion layer, preventing the clouds from breaking up so gleams of sun can poke through.

I mostly know what this looks like from above because I used to look down on the fog and inversion layer from the foothills, where it was sunny and warm. Now I’m down below in dank air beneath a grey dome. But, on the bright side of this drab weather — tule fog means we’ve had enough rain to greatly reduce wildfire risk.

The rest of the northern hemisphere seems to be dealing with snow, lots of it in some cases. Chicago may have set a record one-day snowfall of over 10 inches.

What about you? Everyone has weather, are you enjoying yours?

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