Dr. Bateson, Susanville's resident meteorological expert, reports that we have shattered yet another precipitation record this month. "I just measured another 2.25 inches of water from snow and rain over the past 24-hours and that brings us to 12.85 inches of rain for February," explains Bateson. That...

Dr. Bateson, Susanville's resident meteorological expert, brings us up to date on January moisture totals here in the Honey Lake Valley. "I have recorded 12.01 inches of precipitation water during the month of January," said Bateson, "which broke the old record of 11.35 inches set during...

Dr. Bateson, Susanville's resident meteorological expert, checks in with some really good news about the water levels up at Eagle Lake. "I measured Eagle Lake this morning at 5092.23 feet," Dr. Bateson said in his Monday, July 4th, update on lake levels , "which is 6.36 inches higher than last year on...

Dr. Bateson, Susanville's resident meteorological expert, checks in with some great news about the water levels up at Eagle Lake. "Eagle Lake has come up 3.24" in the past 6 weeks and 25.26" since Last November," says Bateson. "It is now at 5092.7 feet and is 5.76"...

Dr. Bateson, Susanville's resident meteorological expert, checks in with some encouraging precipitation totals for the month December. Bateson measured 4.54" of moisture in December which is 123% of average for the month. This brings us to 9.69" for the year to date or 108% of average. "Unlike last year," explains...

Dr. Bateson sends us this photo of the moon taken during Sunday evening's lunar eclipse. Local observers got lucky as clouds dissipated over us just in time to catch the moonrise and full eclipse of the perigee moon. This photo was taken by Bateson with a Nikon D-7000 DSLR...

Dr. Bateson, Susanville's resident meteorological expert, checks in with frighteningly low precipitation totals for the month April. Despite April beginning at 103% of average the numbers quickly dropped with hardly any rainfall to speak of. "We had only .45 of an inch in precipitation in April for a...

Dr. Bateson sends us this photo of the moon taken during the lunar eclipse in the early hours of April 4th. Bateson took the photo at around 5:00a.m. Saturday with his 85mm refractor in less than ideal viewing conditions. "The top of the moon never did go dark completely even if it...

Dr. Bateson sends us this neat photo of the Horsehead Nebula and the surrounding area, taken from his observatory on March 9th. The photo is a single 6-minute exposure taken with Bateson's IR modified Nikon D-90 through a Televue 85mm apochromatic refractor. The Bateson Observatory is a private observatory near...

Dr. Bateson sends us this neat photo of the Horsehead Nebula and the surrounding area, taken from his observatory on March 9th. The photo is a single 6-minute exposure taken with Bateson's IR modified Nikon D-90 through a Televue 85mm apochromatic refractor. The Bateson Observatory is a private observatory near...

Dr. Bateson, Susanville's resident meteorological expert, checks in this morning with precipitation totals for January, a month he describes as, "very dry and dismal." "I recorded only .03 inches of precipitation and that’s only 1% of the monthly average," said Bateson. "That only brings us to 12.12 inches for...