Andrew Denyes reporting from 25,000 feet above sea level. It's looking very airy and insubstantial up here today, with little to no solid matter available to support heavier than air structures. A good deal of water vapor seems to have formed, probably due to a gooshy blob of cold air barging into the area, shoving its face underneath the warmer air already in the area and causing it to rise. And when you've got warm air rising, you've got clouds. The little water molecules are clumping together into larger and larger lumps of pure H2O, and their weight draws them downward. They gather more and more mass as they speed towards the earth. Sometimes wind will blow them back upwards where they might freeze into hail, but most of the time they come down and hit newly washed cars, picnics, and weddings.

Obviously it's still raining here in Sunny California.

I'm actually in Ft. Bragg, a prime location for a cartoon or after school special. No dialup here. Eating leftover pizza and enjoying the comforts of the local Best Western.

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