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| Morgan Hill Weather News: Sunday 7/13/2008 4:05pm UFO or the silhouette of a fast-moving bird in flight... perhaps a hawk? You decide! Friday 7/11/2008 2:45pm This site was inaccessible for about two and a half hours from just before noon today. Looks like it was an outage at Yahoo hosting. Thursday 7/10/2008 9:50am Yesterday, the California High-Speed Rail Authority approved environmental impact reports as the latest step towards creating a super high-speed rail link between the Bay Area and southern California. Interesting for us... they also selected the Pacheco Pass alignment as the preferred route to the Central Valley. This will bring the new high-speed train through Morgan Hill and Gilroy. One of these towns will also host a new high-speed rail station. Imagine being able to hop on a train locally and be in LA before you would have even gotten to the aircraft ramp at San Jose or San Francisco airports. Recently in Europe, I saw this stark comparison flying from Paris to London. We passed their high-speed train while heading to Paris CDG airport. That train would have gotten us to London before we had boarded our plane in Paris. As we all know, air travel isn't getting any easier and on short hops the airport time overhead often exceeds the flight time. Add to that spiralling fuel costs and a high-speed (electric) rail option looks like a great story. You get to vote on the funding in the November ballot... look out for Prop 1. Examples: Gilroy to San Francisco - 79 miles - 44 mins Gilroy to Los Angeles - 370 miles - 1 hr 57 mins Gilroy to San Diego - 537 miles - 3 hrs 15 mins * Travel time estimates from the California HSRA Interactive Rail Map Read the full press release Wednesday 7/9/2008 2:15pm As the temperature rapidly approaches 100°F for the third day this week, here are some site statistics for those of you who like to "geek out" on the numbers. Back in May we reached 1 million page views since launch on 10/1/2006. Based on the average page view rate at that time, I forecast that 2008 would be a 1 million page view year for Morgan Hill Weather. Well... as you will see from the 2008 YTD table below, we have already passed that threshold !! Tuesday 7/8/2008 8:15am Please join us in the fight against breast cancer. Support Kerri and her team in the upcoming Breast Cancer 3-Day walk in the San Francisco Bay Area. Click here or on one of our pink banners to learn more about how you can help. Friday 7/5/2008 7:15am If you tuned in to our webcam last night you might have noticed it fixed on Community Park ready for Morgan Hill's Independence Day firework's display. However... nothing happened. Sounds like the fire marshal cancelled the sky rocket part of the show because of concerns about high winds. Don't know that for an absolute fact but as a hillside fire zone dweller I have to say... SAFETY FIRST. Disappointing but completely understandable if wind was the reason. See the chart below for a possible explanation: Thursday 7/3/2008 11:40am Finally... clear blue skies have returned! Wednesday 7/2/2008 4:30pm Vegetation fire west of southbound 101 and north of Cochrane Rd exit. Wednesday 7/2/2008 11:15am Unbelievable. Looks like another new fire has started in the mountains south west of Gilroy. Exact location unknown at this point. Looks like CAL FIRE air attack tankers might be responding from Hollister... Correction: this appears to be a new smoke plume from the existing Big Sur fire (approx. 60 miles south) not a new fire in our area. Tuesday 7/1/2008 3:30pm Visibility and air quality have improved significantly over the last few days now that a more westerly wind has blown some of the smoke away. Here's an image from yesterday evening, showing a small and unknown fire in north west Gilroy and a thick layer of fog approaching from Monterey Bay. |
