1/6/25

By jack martin on Jan 06, 2025 at 05:59 PM

Good Monday morning 2025, 

Amen, the Christmas-new year’s holiday is over.
 
It felt like the holiday would never end, I hate Christmas and new years on a Wednesday. But it is over now and here we go with a new year…. 2025 is Action’s 40th anniversary.

It is hard to believe that 40 years have gone by, but it all started in 1985.

Now the weather update …. As we are all aware it is the rainy season, but you would never know it, with really no rain for the season. We have had less than an inch since April ….. that’s not good.

There is weather excitement for Southern California, but it is not in the form of rain. It is all about the wind, we will see a few Santa’s Ana events this week starting tonight into Wednesday, then another Thursday into the weekend. This event will affect the LA mountains the most with winds on mountain tops of up to 95 miles an hour. 

This will make for extreme fire danger, because the air is so dry, and the winds will be crazy. Down power lines are likely in areas and trees. This will affect mainly LA county, but Ventura county and Montecito hills will still feel the wind, but not as severe.

In Santa Barbara, no real wind just warmer day time temps highs in the 70s. Those folks on the East coast wish they could have 70s, because they are getting an arctic blast right now. 

Night time temps especially in areas with no wind will be quite cold. Freezing temps in wind sheltered areas like Santa Ynez. 
https://www.weather.gov/lox/

It does look like dry conditions all the way through the next 7 days due to the dome of high pressure and Santa Ana winds. 

So when will it finally rain ???? 

Models did call  for a shift in the Action mid January , so that would be the week after this, but the latest long range models are now calling for dry until the 20th of January. 

That is not good news in my book, we really need some rain and roofs to leak. I am quickly getting caught up on our work load, and it is time to create more though leaky roofs. 

Enjoy the continued dry weather, “that I can not control …"
   
Have a great first real work week of 2025. It is time for all the Action to begin again.
 
Jack Martin

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Thank you for coming up to do the demo for the Career Fair at Los Prietos. All the boys were fascinated by the chance to see how sheet metal is formed, and to do some of it themselves. A hands-on demo is always the most effective in getting the boys involved. We really appreciate your arranging the demo, especially since you had already put so much energy into the talk and demo you did for the Construction Technology class. The teaching and Probation staff were all impressed by how involved the boys were in your demo.
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