Tuesday's sunrise brought pink clouds to Topaz Ranch Estates in this photo by John Flaherty.
Genoa, Nev. — Alpine County announced its first death in the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday. The person was vaccinated but had known risk factors that put them in the highest danger for serious disease and complications, Public Health Officer Richard Johnson said.
A couple of near magnitude 4 earthquakes about 10 miles south of Topaz Lake on Tuesday morning were felt in Douglas County. The temblors came in quick succession at 8:11 and 8:12 a.m. and were 3.6 and 3.8, according to the Nevada Seismology Lab. They are connected to the big Walker Canyon quake swarm that started in July.
There were a couple of rollovers on Tuesday but no significant injuries. One was around 10 a.m. at Jake’s Hill and the other was at the northern intersection of Centerville and Waterloo near the river at around 3 p.m.
A little bit of rain overnight Monday and relatively still weather since the wind died down on Tuesday have brought the Caldor Fire to a standstill. Flare-ups are likely to continue within the interior of the fire as it burns off some of the green bits it missed the first time.
I suspect that this week will be the model for most of these public safety outages in the future with the alert covering a large area and then surgical outages where things are bad. I know the power company set up a weather station in Genoa to monitor winds accompanying a cold front.
I rolled in the tomatoes last night on the chance it might freeze this morning. My microclimate only dropped to 36 degrees. Minden-Tahoe Airport hit 27 degrees at 5:15 a.m. with a wind chill making it feel like 18 degrees. Fish Springs is the warm spot at 40 degrees.
Today expect sunny skies and a high of 67 degrees, with the wind light and variable picking up out of the north at 5-10 mph. The low tonight is forecast to hit 31 degrees in Minden, which shouldn’t translate into a hard freeze for most of the rest of the Valley. Your temperatures likely will vary.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
