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Admittedly beautiful sunny day today, and not too warm. Lots of people out enjoying it. Some low clouds are developing around Agua Tibia-Palomar Mountain to the south, however.

Warmer today, 74F this afternoon. That should melt everything below 5,000 FT.

Cahuilla Mountain, east of Temecula and near Anza peaking at 5,635 FT above sea level, is very close in elevation to Santiago Peak (5,687 FT) - driving to work yesterday afternoon I could see Cahuilla Mountain to the east covered with snow visibly down to at least 4,000 FT. So, I would imagine Santiago Peak is covered in it as well. Palomar Mountain (6,140 FT) also covered in snow from here. Vehicles from nearby higher-elevation towns to the east all came down here with snow still on the roofs of their cars yesterday.

Of the 31 days in March 2023, 27 of them were cooler-than-average here. Ended the month with 5.96".

Temperature has been stuck at 49F here all day today. Snow level seems to be hovering between 3500 and 4000 FT since last night.

Getting hit by another round of showers right now. 0.30" since midnight, 0.14" yesterday. Rain has never been heavy at any point here during this storm.

Had some moments of decent rain just after midnight, 0.09" since then and doppler radar shows a couple more waves of precipitation coming.

Drying out now, sun coming out. Predictions for us were between 0.7" and 1". We received about 0.1". Stellar.

Only 0.13" so far. Pathetic

Still awaiting Turkey's imminent approval. Sweden has been more or less rejected on the grounds of housing Kurdish PKK sympathizers, which Turkey considers as terrorists.

Yes, that supports what I said - eastern Ukrainians tend to support Russia as opposed to western Ukrainians. Ukraine has applied numerous times since 2014 to join NATO, and each time NATO has quietly rejected every offer. Why? Same reason as why NATO has rejected Georgia's constant requests to join NATO since 2008: Nobody wants World War Three, not even NATO. And like it or not, there is no situation for Ukraine to be neutral in the current scenario. If you don't believe me, just ask any given Ukrainian. Ukraine cannot legally join NATO as it would violate Article V of the NATO charter - your country cannot have any part of its territory under hostile foreign military occupation (see Crimea). Because then, all NATO countries (primarily the United States) would then be immediately obligated to fight Russia on Ukraine's behalf. Even the US doesn't want to do that.

Pro-NATO propagandist is embedded with Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut a few days ago. Even the Ukrainian soldiers roll their eyes when the propagandist says that "morale is high" among other things in Bakhmut:

Temperature has flatlined since last night. Still 49F as of noon.

I don't understand, this seems to support what I said...? Interestingly, Russia has not made clear its goals in Ukraine clear as of yet - they keep changing their possible intentions "Maybe we'll take half of Ukraine, if the West intervenes, we might take 90% or all of it" aside from the "Denazification and demilitarization" goals which are ambiguous at best. Right now I estimate their goals are to at least reach the Dnipro River, effectively splitting Ukraine right down the middle - but this seems prone to more changes as I said. But I'm sure we can agree that Russia at the very least wants Ukraine out of the hands of the West. Dangerous scenario under our warmongering government. Ukraine is caught in a tug of war between Russia and the West. The West is willing to spend as many Ukrainian lives as possible, while Russia appears content on taking its sweet time grinding the Ukrainian Army down and also depleting NATO weapons stocks all going to Ukraine. Who has more "rights" over Ukraine; Russia (literal neighbor of Ukraine) or the West (imperialist powers almost entirely dependent on American hegemony)?

Our CIA exploited what was essentially a civil war in Ukraine between pro-West Ukrainians and pro-Russian Ukrainians. Obviously the former tend to reside in western Ukraine while the latter reside in eastern Ukraine. This started over potential government reforms that would have allowed Ukraine to join the European Union (not NATO until months later), which pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych refused in favor of stronger ties with Russia at the time. People forget that Russia was not actually involved in Ukraine's initial uprising, Russia became involved in February 2014 and subsequently (illegally) annexed Crimea. Ukrainian soldiers even today complain that civilians who remain in battle-torn cities along the front lines are all pro-Russian, while all other civilians have either fled to neighboring countries or directly to Russia itself. People forget that in early 2014, all armed resistance against the Ukrainian government was entirely from Ukrainians whom sought closer ties with Russia along with ousted Yanukovych. The Donetsk and Lugansk Republics were all headed and militarily lead by Ukrainians who sided with Russia. Russia then exploited this and sent them military advisors, tanks and other equipment to push Ukraine back in the east. Ukraine in 2023 is far closer to a failed state than Russia, which has since 2014 fortified its economy to withstand western sanctions and it has mostly worked.

Finally rain started here. 0.04" so far, but only from drizzle.

We may not see eye to eye, but I want to make sure my stance is clear - while Russia may have pulled the trigger, this war was caused primarily by awful US foreign policy, and this was deliberate by our government. I don't believe Ukraine would be angry with the US because this war would not have happened in the first place if not for US meddling in 2013-2014. I started paying close attention to that part of the world as a teenager in 2008 when Russia invaded a part of Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and even more when the Euromaidan protests broke out in Ukraine in 2013, sponsored by our very own CIA as they have an established history of doing in many countries. Hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved, but the US government decided that it was not in their interests to pursue this. Most evil government in the world, followed by Israel.

Front is taking an extremely long time to arrive. So far half a day behind schedule.

And to everyone here who supports President Biden's policy towards Ukraine, you should all watch videos like this one. I have seen over a thousand of these over the past year. Russian Wagner fighter storming Ukrainian positions in a forest attempts to force two Ukrainian soldiers to surrender, and there is confusion among the Ukrainian soldiers regarding the identity of their attacker (they seem to mistake their attacker as friendly at first), then when one of them realizes that he is enemy, he reaches for his weapon - both are immediately shot to death by the Russian attacker as a result. This is something I have seen actually shared amongst both pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian channels, referring to this war as a "brother war" (brothers killing brothers) as both sides have a difficult time distinguishing allies from enemies as they both appear to be the same people - again I do not take pleasure in sharing this. This is war, and war is hell. Biden could have single-handedly prevented all of this, but instead he deliberately goaded it on because he wanted to "weaken Russia". Everyone who supports Biden's policies should be forced to watch all videos such as this one. This is what you are supporting. And there are thousands of these videos, I know because I have watched them all. Warning: GRAPHIC! (21+) Nothing is censored here.

It's getting very tiring watching footage from the war in Ukraine. While it is no secret that I'm on Russia's side, I take no pleasure from seeing so many dead Ukrainian soldiers. I had a battle buddy during basic training in the Army who was Ukrainian, his name was Chevchuk - this was only four years ago. I fear he likely returned to Ukraine after separating from the US Army and is probably no longer alive now. Ukrainians are some of the toughest people on the planet (along with Russians). They are both practically fearless Slavs, and with the help of Elon Musk's "Starlink" system deployed in Ukraine, we see videos of them in trenches and frontlines every day where internet access is otherwise non-existent. I was reluctant to share information about the Ukrainian government's forced conscription of young Ukrainian men after the Russian invasion began over a year ago, due to the high probability of Russian propaganda and nothing confirmed by either side regarding the whole "Ukrainian men are being pulled from the streets, given only three days of training and then sent to the frontlines" rumors being spread around. But lately I have seen evidence of this from Ukrainian soldiers themselves, as well as massive resentment among Ukrainians towards Zelensky for his "fanatical" decision to attempt to hold the city of Bakhmut as Russian forces advance in and around it. The Ukrainian city of Avdeevka, very close to the frontline since 2014 (which pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels had actually successfully captured from Ukraine in 2014 for a few months before being recaptured by Ukrainian forces later that year and subsequently heavily fortified) is now under major pressure by Russian forces as Russia resorts to using "glide bombs" (allowing Russia to use bunker-buster bombs and advanced cluster munitions launched from Russian warplanes safely from Russian airspace without entering Ukrainian airspace, just like Israel does to Syria) - well, just watch: This is a sign of a military force under severe strain (along with all of the videos taken by Ukrainian civilians of military commissars quite literally yanking young Ukrainian men off the streets, especially in predominately Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine). This is very tiring. Ukraine is being used by the west and they seem to be becoming more and more aware of this fact.

Main front has narrowed and weakened significantly after moving south of Point Conception. It was twice as wide further upstate. It also appears to have slowed down somewhat.

Warm and not a cloud in the sky today. You wouldn't know there was a storm coming in about 12 hours. Updated my storm total and season total (added 0.14") after checking and emptying my manual rain gauge, which doesn't lie. Showed 3.05" as opposed to my previous total of 2.91". I had emptied my manual rain gauge just before the previous storms. The bulk of that precipitation very likely fell on March 21st. It isn't uncommon for my Davis VP2 rain gauge to underreport during heavy rainfall and in windy conditions. March 2023 is also now my wettest March on record, surpassing March 2020 with 5.42" currently. That total will only increase over the next several days.

Why can't modern Americans be like the French and revolt against their government?

Need warm waters for a subtropical climate. What we have is a mix of Mediterranean and Semi-Arid climate zones.

Official storm total from the 19th-23rd at my station was 2.91". Only 0.23" to go until 20".