Thinking about the NWS & NOAA etc...
Woke up to the wind rattling the windows in the High Sierras ...started late last night, woke me up around 5am, and now again at 7am...
Yesterday was cold, but relatively mild. Clouds got thicker a little towards the evening, maybe a spritz of rain/snow.
And Here comes the big Whallop they've been talking about for a couple days.
So, I'm an Anthropology majjor. I tend to look at most everything through a lens of "how did our ancestors do it?"
As I'm watching the last bits of sun disappear for who knows how many days, I wonder how our ancient ancestors knew the weather was coming. I mean, the blowing in of a storm if often the biggest warning, but that's about a 12-24 hour window. Did they have other ways of seeing the signs? Did the animals' behavior change, or did they have some other type of way of seeing impending weather without climbing to the top of a mountain and looking to the east or west?
I ask these questions and realize we may be required to be more in touch with our local cycles, flora and fauna, etc than we have been in several generations or more. It's one thing to have the weatherman tell you what's gonna happen, and another thing when you are left to your own devices.
With the disdain this incoming "administration" has for all things science, and the desire to eliminate the NWS and more, we could very well be thrown back into the veriitable stone age.
...and I am also sure that part of the reason they dont want the climatologists to have jobs is because they plan on ignoring ANY goals or limitations on fossil fuels etc....and they don't want anyone calling them out.
Just some chilling morning observations, as I prepare to batten down the hatches for the next week or so! 
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