Picture of the Day - Change On The Wind

Earlier this evening I had a security detail at a wedding at the AARP building in Atascadero, CA. I arrived 15 minutes early and captured this image looking southeastward just before 4 p.m. PST. What is revealed is the drought-afflicted, dry lakebed of Atascadero Lake, previously submerged ruins, and a sky indicating a change in the weather pattern from cold and dry shifting to a more El Niño weather pattern with an invigorated subtropical jet stream guiding a series of Pacific storms into California in the coming days. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).