[Leica] Strange day yesterday

[Aram Langhans]

Not in our area.  We have no large solar facilities.  Still heavily rely on 
hydroelectric up here.  Not sure about in California, but the large solar 
facilities I have seen down there are probably not heavily effected by smoke 
at this time.  But that is a good question.  Maybe others in California or 
Nevada might know more about the smoke and solar generation.
We are staying indoors more, but the smoke has drastically cut back on the 
outside temperatures.  Before the first fire, they had been forecasting mid 
90's for a week.  We barely made it out of the 70's most days.  15-20 
degrees cooler than what it should have been w/o the smoke.  So, that helps 
a lot.

Aram

-----Original Message----- 
From: Don Dory
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 12:30 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Strange day yesterday

Is the smoke causing further electric blackouts/ brownouts due to much
lower solar generation during the day?  It would seem that with the fires
and generally greater temperatures that folks would be staying indoors and
running the AC if they have that.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 7:18 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Yeah.  We were generating 130 Watts.  Whoo Who.   We can get almost 4.6 KW
> when the sun is peak.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard L Ritter Jr
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 9:13 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Strange day yesterday
>
> Kind of ironic juxtaposition of your gloomy daylight with the optimistic
> image of solar panels being installed on your roof!
>
> —howard
>
> > On Sep 8, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Starting after I sent my last email about the cleanup, the winds picked
> up
> > and blew all day.  Then around 4 PM the light got really strange
> outside.
> > The combination of dust, smoke and the sun lit the inside of the house
> > with this yellowish light that made us feel like we were on a different
> > planet.  I took a few shots out the window, put them on my laptop and
> > looking out at the light made sure the captured image was as close to
> the
> > “reality” outside that I could make it.  I never before had had the
> > opportunity to take  photo and then be sure it matched with what I had
> > seen before.  So, this is really what the light looked like outside.
> View
> > large if you want.
> >
> > Looking sort of south where we normally see the hills past the town and
> > Mt. Adams in the distance.:
> >
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Strange+Light-1000297.jpg.html
> >
> > Looking the opposite direction:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Strange+Light-1000296.jpg.html
> >
> > We had to rescue a neighbor dog who was outside and the owners were on
> > their way back from Seattle.  It is mostly calm and clear today.  Might
> > even go for out walk or bike ride.
> >
> > Aram
> >
> >
> >
> > Semi- Retired Science Teacher and Unemployed Photographer
> >
> > “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin
> himself
> > would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
> >
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