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This is Upgrade episode 269. Today's show is brought to you by Linode, Kensington, and Tax Expander from Smile. My name is Mike Hurley and I have the absolute pleasure of being

joined by Mr. Jason Snell. Hi Jason Snell.

Hi Mike Hurley, how are you? I'm fine and dandy my friend. How are you?

Um, I'm fine. We're going to talk about the weather in Snow Talk this week because

Jason's been dealing with quite a situation and which is why we're recording a

day later than usual. People will usually think that we have something exciting to talk about, right?

That like there's some embargo, but no, we were embargoed by power outages.

Yes, yes, we were personally, I was personally embargoed. My house has been embargoed for a while now.

What's going on in California, Jason Snell? Oh, there's so much going on in California, Mike Hurley.

Really, so yeah, there, this is the,

this is like a season that we have

that doesn't exist in most parts of the world,

but exists in California.

And it's a season where there are high winds that blow they blow

offshore so they're blowing toward the ocean from out in the deserts that are

over the mountains in in like Nevada and Arizona and places like that and the so this time a year this happens and there are these immense pressure gradients between

you know out in Nevada in the desert and on the coast and as a result the air moves

toward the coast and you end up getting these incredibly high winds.

They're dry, they're warm and what ends up happening is this is another thing about our climate is that it doesn't

rain between like April or May and November generally which I know is mind-boggling for a lot of people

but it just we are a dry summer climate.

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