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 since Feb. 2003
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Happy Halloween! Just got back from San Antonio, where my wife and I spent a couple of days at the Riverwalk… We stopped by the Market, The Alamo (and, yes, I spotted the webcam peering out of a window in the tourism center across the street), Hard Rock Cafe and finished our vacation with lunch at a fine Tex-Mex restaurant in Old San Antonio — Guadalajara Grill… Anyway, it was a good time, though very humid (I don’t complain, as long as it’s nice and warm).

The huge solar flares are over… Some great snapshots of auroras are in this Spaceweather.com gallery

Cool, Wet Weather Helps Firefighters in San Diego | California Firefighters Gain Control, With Weather’s Aid

Winter forecast is uncertain

Space Weather Forecast Center Faces Stormy Future

First winter storm in Wyoming leaves four dead

Winter in the West: Saturday’s forecast

Check out the active U.S. fires map for wildfires still raging… Much more on the wildfire situation in So. Calif. below:

Some new articles on the wildfires in So. Calif.: Wildfire Toll Tops 1500 Homes | Latest from NBC 4 in LA | Latest from Google News

Here’s a satellite image of the wildfires

Huge Solar Flare Erupts, Heads For Earth

Image from San Diego available on SpaceWeather.com

For the latest weather and webcam images, check out WXnation’s Los Angeles and San Diego pages… Much more on the wildfires in the Southland below:

Breaking: 13 Dead, 650 Homes Burned As Wildfires Ravage Southland | Latest from MSNBC and Google News. Many webcam links are in the WXnation San Diego page, including the great SunDiego streaming cam with audio from AM 760 KFMB.

SpaceWeather.com: Solar activity remains high

Autumn is upon many of us, and it feels like it. The temps slid from nearly 90 on Friday to the 60s over the weekend in north Texas… Here is the forecast story

Solar burst could scramble phones, power lines

Solar explosions tomorrow. Details are at SpaceWeather.com

Get the latest on the guy who went over Niagara Falls and survived. Why didn’t David Blaine think of this first? Latest details here

Lady bugs invade in MO

Record-breaking warmth in MT? | Record highs in WY, Calif., and AZ. It’s warm here in North Texas as well…

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