Disney Dance Crew “soft” open was AMAZING! A MUST SEE!!! Opens Friday 10/22/10
DISNEY DANCE CREW
PREVIEW:)
ANOTHER AMAZING NEW SHOW AT DISNEYLAND & IT STARTS UP
OCTOBER 22ND, 2010.
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OFFICIAL WINTER FORECAST FOR ALL OF THE UNITED STATES INCLUDING SoCal!
Jim agrees with Joe for upcoming WINTER in U.S.
BY THE WAY LA NINA USUALLY BRINGS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DRIER AND SOMETIMES COOLER WEATHER: BUT……
According to AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist and West Coast resident Ken Clark said, “The difference going into this winter, is going to be totally on the opposite side, last year we had a moderate El Nino going through the winter, that drastically changed this spring to a La Nina pattern.”
Clark said that the La Nina will create drier and warmer weather in the Southwest.
With the Southwest, and especially Southern California, expected to be drier than normal, some Southern California residents may be worried about how dry it will really be.
Clark notes that it can be difficult to estimate this far out. He said, “It will depend on whether the La Nina continues to strengthen, which there are some indications that it will be over the next four or five months.”
At this time, Clark is suggesting that precipitation in Southern California could be as much as 10 percent below normal.
“It could be a significant departure that could have large ramifications going into next summer,” he said.
“If we go back into moderate or stronger drought conditions for this winter, we could not only be looking at going back on old [water] restrictions, but increasing restrictions on the amount of water to be used… not only to residents, but also to the extremely important farming community in the San Joaquin Valley.”
TYPICAL LA NINA WINTER: ACCUWEATHER GRAPHIC
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SUPER TYPHOON HITS PHILIPPINES MONDAY 10/18
DEADLY SUPER TYPHOON MEGI SLAMS THE PHILIPPINES: CLICK HERE FOR REPORT
Marveling at Super Typhoon Megi, THE WASHINGTON POST TELLS THE STORY BELOW:
Visible satellite images of Super Typhoon Megi on October 18. Top image is a contrast enhanced close-up of the image on the right in the series underneath it. Source: Naval Research Lab.
Super Typhoon Megi, the strongest tropical cyclone to hit a mass of land on the planet since Hurricane Dean in 2007. The one time Category 5 storm exhibited amazing satellite features prior to landfall
See the sequence above just before Megi swept across the northern Philippines. The top image is a close-up of the third image in the series beneath it. I enhanced the contrast a bit so you can look-in at the structure of the spiral bands surrounding the eye and inside the eye itself.
By Jason Samenow | October 18, 2010; 7:30 PM ET
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MY VIDEO 10/18/10 DISNEY :)
MY VIDEO FROM DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE AND SATURDAY NIGHT
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Jim @ KTLA doing his Windmill Dance:) 09/2010
Watch us live streaming from 4:30 am until 10 am Los Angeles time. also, 1pm Monday thru Friday, also 6 and 10 pm Monday thru Sunday:)
KTLA 5 in Los Angeles, California was the first commercially licensed television station in the western United States, having begun operations in 1947.
Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of The CW Television Network. KTLA’s studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson. The station’s signal covers the Southern California region and KTLA is also available as a regionalsuperstation via cable and satellite in the United States and Canada.
Bob Hope served as the emcee for KTLA’s inaugural broadcast, which was broadcast that evening from a garage on the Paramount Studios lot. The program, titled as the “Western Premiere of Commercial Television”, featured appearances from many Hollywood luminaries. Hope delivered what was perhaps the most famous line of the evening when, at the program’s start, he identified the new station as “KTL”, mistakenly omitting the “A” at the end of the call sign. A 10-minute fragment from KTLA’s first broadcast exists at the Paley Center for Media.
KTLA’s facility is also home to Sunset Bronson Studios (formerly Tribune Studios), where shows like Greed, Fox’s Celebrity Boxing specials, WKRP in Cincinnati, Judge Judy, Hannah Montana, Solid Gold, Name That Tune, Family Feud, Win Ben Stein’s Money, Lingo, The Newlywed Game, MADtv, Judge Joe Brown, and the later parts of the 2009-10 season of Let’s Make a Deal have been produced over the years.
Former owner Gene Autry, reporters Stan Chambers and Larry McCormick, news anchors Hal Fishman and George Putnam, and KTLA founder Klaus Landsberg—have received stars on the Walk of Fame. In addition, KTLA continued its celebration on the weekend after Thanksgiving by airing a 60-hour marathon of classic shows that aired on KTLA in the past. KTLA also aired retrospectives of historic Los Angeles news stories during its weekend newscasts. However, the retro news segments were canceled on November 24 due to extensive coverage of the Corral Canyon fire in Malibu, California. Among the programs shown during the marathon were The Honeymooners, The Jack Benny Program, The Little Rascals, Wonder Woman, and Peter Gunn.
On October 14, 2009, KTLA unveiled a new logo and a redesigned news set, bringing back the classic stylized number 5 previously used by the station from 1980 to 1997.
Current on-air staff
- Anchors/hosts
- Frank Buckley – weekday mornings on “KTLA Morning News” (7-10 a.m.) and weekdays at 1 p.m.
- Wendy Burch – weekday mornings on “KTLA Morning News” at 4:30 a.m.
- Cher Calvin – weekends at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Leila Feinstein – weekdays at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.; also health reporter
- Megan Henderson – weekday mornings on “KTLA Morning News” at 5 a.m and 6 a.m.
- Jessica Holmes – weekday mornings on “KTLA Morning News” (9-10 a.m.) and weekdays at 1 p.m.
- Glen Walker – weekends at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Micah Ohlman – weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Michaela Pereira – weekday mornings on “KTLA Morning News” (7-10 a.m.)
- KTLA weather team
- Vera Jimenez – Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
- Jim Castillo – Meteorologist; weekends at 6 and 10 p.m, and 1p.m. Thursday & Friday.
- Jessica Holmes – Weather Anchor; weekdays at 1 p.m.
- Mark Kriski – Weather Anchor; weekday mornings “KTLA Morning News” (5-10 a.m.)
- Ginger Chan – Traffic and Weather Anchor; weekday mornings “KTLA Morning News” (4:30-7 a.m.)
- Sports team
- Derrin Horton – Sports Director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Steve Hartman – Sports Anchor; weekends at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Reporters
- Gayle Anderson – general assignment reporter
- Alex Calder – Sky 5 HD
- Jaime Chambers – general assignment reporter
- Ginger Chan – morning traffic reporter (KTLA Morning News)
- Elizabeth Espinosa – general assignment reporter
- Carolyn Costello – general assignment reporter
- Jennifer Gould – general assignment reporter
- Jesse Gary – morning reporter
- Allie MacKay – general assignment reporter
- Dave Malkoff – general assignment reporter
- Mary Beth McDade – general assignment reporter
- Dave Mecham – general assignment reporter
- Manny Medrano – general assignment reporter
- Lu Parker – general assignment reporter (formerly weekend anchor)
- Lynette Romero – general assignment reporter (formerly 10 p.m. anchor)
- Sam Rubin – entertainment reporter
- Eric Spillman – general assignment reporter; also primary anchor fill-in on morning/1 p.m. newscasts
- Chris Wolfe – general assignment reporter
- Chip Yost – general assignment reporter
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U.S. SUPERSTATIONS: KTLA 5 LOS ANGELES, WGN Chicago WPIX New York City
The remaining “true” superstations
Tribune’s WGN-TV in Chicago, and WPIX-TV in New York City, and KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, California, are carried on some rural cable systems, and on the DISH Network direct broadcast satellite system.
Don Corsini is KTLA 5′s President and General Manager and Jason Ball is the News Director. WIKIPEDIA-The Free Encyclopedia
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HOT & DRY A WEEK AGO 113 DEGREES TO VERY WET MON. THRU WED. 10/05 TO 10/07/10
HOLLYWOOD WEEKEND FORECAST!!!Friday 10/08/10: Sunny, around 80. Calm wind Saturday: 10/09/10 Sunny, with a high near 58/85. light wind
Sunday: 10/10/10 Sunny, with a high near 61/92.
Gusty offshore wind below canyons/passes
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 61.
Columbus Day: BANKS CLOSED 10/11/10 Sunny, with a high near 88.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 85.
PIC ABOVE IS STORM EVENT RAINFALL TOTALS FROM NOAA IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 10/05 to 10/07/10 MTW
RECORD EVENT REPORT…UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
615 PM PDT WED OCT 6 2010
...LOWEST MAXIMUM(HIGH) TEMPERATURE RECORDS
BROKEN OR TIED ON OCTOBER 6, 2010... LOCATION NEW RECORD OLD RECORD PERIOD OF RECORD EL CAJON 69 73 IN 1994 SINCE 1979 LAGUNA BEACH 59 67 IN 1935 SINCE 1928 NEWPORT BEACH 64 66 IN 2001 SINCE 1929 PALOMAR MOUNTAIN 43 45 IN 1994 SINCE 1940 PALM SPRINGS 77 80 IN 2007 SINCE 1922 RIVERSIDE 65 70 IN 2000 SINCE 1924 ...HIGHEST DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ON OCTOBER 6... LOCATION NEW RECORD OLD RECORD PERIOD OF RECORD SAN DIEGO 0.74 INCHES 0.35 INCHES SINCE 1850 LINDBERGH FIELD IN 1912
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 920 AM PDT THU OCT 07 2010 ...PRELIMINARY RAINFALL TOTALS... THE FOLLOWING ARE RAINFALL TOTALS IN INCHES FOR THIS RAIN EVENT FROM EARLY MONDAY MORNING THROUGH 500 AM THURSDAY MORNING. 10/04/10 to 10/07/10 .LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITANAVALON (KAVX)..................... 0.29 HAWTHORNE (KHHR).................. 0.87 LOS ANGELES AP(KLAX).............. 0.74 DOWNTOWN LA (CQT)................. 0.40 LONG BEACH (KLGB)................. 0.38 SANTA MONICA (KSMO)...............1.10 MONTE NIDO FS..................... 1.46 BIG ROCK MESA..................... 1.18BALLONA CK @ SAWTELLE............. 0.63 BEVERLY HILLS..................... 1.08 HOLLYWOOD RSVR.................... 0.59 L.A. R @ FIRESTONE................ 0.20 DOMINGUEZ WATER CO................ 0.55 LA HABRA HEIGHTS.................. 0.31 .LOS ANGELES COUNTY VALLEYS BURBANK (KBUR).................... 0.57 VAN NUYS (KVNY)................... 0.24 AGOURA....... 1.14 CHATSWORTH RSVR................... 0.63 SEPULVEDA CYN @ MULHL............. 0.55 PACOIMA DAM....................... 0.91 HANSEN DAM........................ 0.67 SAUGUS............................ 0.20 DEL VALLE......................... 0.45 .LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY L.A. CITY COLLEGE................. 0.39 EAGLE ROCK RSRV................... 0.27 EATON WASH @ LOFTUS............... 0.31 SAN GABRIEL R @ VLY............... 0.24 EATON DAM......................... 0.67 WALNUT CK S.B..................... 0.23 SANTA FE DAM...................... 0.35 WHITTIER HILLS.................... 0.37 CLAREMONT......................... 0.39 .LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS SANDBERG (KSDB)................... 0.41 MOUNT WILSON CBS.................. 0.02 W FK HELIPORT..................... 0.71 SANTA ANITA DAM..... 1.14 SAN GABRIEL DAM................... 0.63 MORRIS DAM........................ 0.67 BIG DALTON DAM.................... 0.55 OPIDS CAMP........................ 1.47 SIERRA MADRE MAINT YD............. 0.74 TANBARK........................... 0.49 SAN ANTONIO DAM................... 0.59 MILL CK........................... 0.23 CHILAO............................ 0.16 MT BALDY FS....................... 0.28 WHITAKER PEAK..................... 0.86 WARM SPRINGS...................... 0.47 .LOS ANGELES COUNTY DESERTS LANCASTER (KWJF).................. 0.10 PALMDALE (KPMD)................... 0.17 PALMDALE WATER DIST............... 0.12 LANCASTER......................... 0.15 .VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL CAMARILLO (KCMA).................. 0.81 OXNARD (LOXC1).................... 0.85 LEO CARRILLO...................... 0.87 CNTY GVT CNTR..................... 0.99 SATICOY YARD...................... 0.72 LA CONCHITA....................... 0.63 CALLEGUAS CK @ CSUCI.............. 1.18 CONEJO CK ABV HWY 101............. 1.19 SOUTH MTN W....................... 1.42 OXNARD CIVIC CENTER............... 0.86 .VENTURA COUNTY WESTERN VALLEYS STATION CANYON.................... 1.08 MATILIJA DAM...................... 1.83 STEWART CYN....................... 1.48 FAGAN CYN WEST.................... 1.06 OJAI.............................. 1.48 SOUTH MTN E....................... 2.44 .VENTURA COUNTY EASTERN VALLEYS FILLMORE SANITATION............... 0.87 MOORPARK COUNTY YARD.............. 0.90 TEMESCAL (LPF).................... 0.78 PIRU.............................. 0.82 LANG RANCH........................ 1.34 SYCAMORE CYN DAM.................. 0.63 ROCKY PEAK........................ 1.10 SIMI SANITATION................... 0.74 CIRCLE X RANCH.................... 1.50 SIMI VALLEY APCD.................. 0.83 CHEESEBORO........................ 0.70
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From HOT to NOT and back to HOT again:) 09/27/10 to 10/10/10
09/27/10, last Monday it was 113 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in downtown Los Angeles. The air was so hot, also very dry and felt much like a blow dryer pointed right at my face. Low pressure off the California coast eventually pulled in some very humid, tropical air from Baja, and it mixed with the hot air. I felt like I moved to Miami! We had sunshine most of the time with isolated thunderstorms on the outskirts of downtown L.A. Some of these cells were electrical storms with lightning bolts shooting out of them, catching power poles and palm trees on fire! This week, we start out around 69 degrees as a high temperature for Monday Oct 4th, with areas of drizzle and RAIN!!! Showers and a few peeks of Sunshine will be mixed for Tuesday with a high around 69. We are clearing very nicely by mid to late week and on Friday, we are totally sunny again with highs near 80 and the weekend looks sunny from the beaches to the the mountains. Highs for the 9th and 10th of Oct. will be in the 80′s and 90′s around Los Angeles and the beaches will be packed. I think the weather in Southern California is a blast to forecast! Have a fantastic week! JC P.S. My video pick of the week comes from Fullerton, CA in Orange County. I posted it on www.jimcastillo.com a few days ago. Check out Fullerton high school students watching a palm tree engulfed in flames and then another bolt suddenly zaps the same area. Remember to go inside, away from wicked bolts of lightning like that one, lightning is the single worst killer in thunderstorms. The National Weather Service came up with a way to remember when to go inside, “When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors”! When you hear thunder, lightning is close by, go inside. Lightning bolts can travel 20 miles before striking the ground. It is safe to say that if you hear thunder, there is at least a remote chance that you can be struck by lightning. Air near a lightning bolt can be heated to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than the surface of the sun.
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More Thunderstorms Possible with Very Dangerous Lightning!
NUMEROUS POWER POLES AND PALM TREES WERE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING 01/01/10 FROM ORANGE CO. INTO L.A. COUNTY FROM THE MORNING UNTIL THE EARLY EVENING! BELOW: A PALM TREE WAS STRUCK AND WAS ENGULFED IN FLAMES OCT. 1ST, 2010.
01/01/10 LIGHTNING
| WILD WEATHER ON FRIDAY WILL LIKELY BE A PROBLEM FOR SOME TODAY, SATURDAY OCT. 2ND, 2010 (KTLA-TV) |
FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE MOUNTAINS EXCEPT THE SANTA MONICA RANGE...AND THE CUYAMA AND ANTELOPE VALLEYS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OXNARD PUT OUT THIS STATEMENT FOR TODAY, SATURDAY 01/02/10 THROUGH THIS EVENING AND SHADED GREEN ON THE MAP ABOVE!
Scattered Showers & T'Storms will again pop up today, Saturday 01/02/10. Dangerous
Lightning, heavy downpours, and small hail will be likely in some areas.
Flash Flooding over any hills or mountainous area is very possible!
IF YOU HEAR THUNDER, LIGHTNING IS NEAR AND GO INSIDE AND STAY
IN DOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES,
I HOPE YOU WILL JOIN ME, AND THE EXCELLENT KTLA 5 STORM CREW TONIGHT AT 6 & 10!
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Hollywood, CA 9/29/2010 2 days after the Hottest Day on RECORD 113 in Los Angeles!
Venice, Beach CA
BELOW: WHAT HOLLYWOOD, CA LOOKED LIKE AS THE HOTTEST DAY EVER RECORDED IN LOS ANGELES 113 DEGREES CAME TO A CLOSE.
BELOW: MAMA OR “M” PLAYING WITH HER CARROT AND SHE DIDN’T MIND THE HEAT:)
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Hottest day on record in Los Angeles and Long Beach CA 09/27/2010
RECORD EVENT REPORT...PRELIMINARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 450 PM PDT MON SEP 27 2010 ...HOTTEST DAY EVER IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES... ...MANY OTHER RECORDS SET ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA TODAY... THE TEMPERATURE IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES TODAY REACHED 113 DEGREES AT 1215 PM PDT. THAT WAS THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1877. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 112 DEGREES SET ON JUNE 26TH 1990. THE PREVIOUS RECORD FOR THE DAY IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES WAS 106 DEGREES SET IN 1963...AND THE PREVIOUS RECORD FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER WAS 110 DEGREES SET ON SEPTEMBER 1ST 1955 AND EQUALED ON SEPTEMBER 4TH 1988. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT LONG BEACH AIRPORT TODAY WAS 111 DEGREES AT 109 PM PDT. THAT TIED THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED AT LONG BEACH AIRPORT...WHICH WAS SET ON OCTOBER 15TH 1961. IT ALSO SET A NEW RECORD FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER...ECLIPSING THE OLD RECORD OF 110 DEGREES SET ON SEPTEMBER 26TH 1963. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT TODAY WAS 105 DEGREES AT 1130 AM PDT. THAT TIED THE DAILY RECORD WHICH WAS SET IN 1963. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT BURBANK AIRPORT TODAY WAS 110 DEGREES. THAT BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 104 DEGREES SET IN 1963. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN WOODLAND HILLS AT PIERCE COLLEGE TODAY WAS 111 DEGREES. THAT BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 107 DEGREES SET IN 1993. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN OXNARD AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE TODAY WAS 100 DEGREES. THAT BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 99 DEGREES SET IN 1963. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT WAS 100 DEGREES TODAY. THAT BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 99 DEGREES SET IN 1970. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT SANTA MARIA AIRPORT WAS 105 DEGREES. THAT BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 99 DEGREES SET IN 1917. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT PASO ROBLES AIRPORT TODAY WAS 108 DEGREES. THAT BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 105 DEGREES SET IN 1963. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT LANCASTER AIRPORT TODAY WAS 103 DEGREES. THAT TIED THE DAILY RECORD WHICH WAS SET IN 2003. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT PALMDALE AIRPORT TODAY WAS 102 DEGREES. THAT TIED THE DAILY RECORD WHICH WAS SET IN 2003.
HOTTEST DAY EVER in L.A.
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