Speaking of clouds, if you hadn't noticed all
of these clouds are coming from out south of
Hawaii. It's similar to the Pineapple Express
condition during El Niņo winters. But last I
heard it is not an El Niņo year. I got this
information by running the 12 hour loop at
this address a couple times a day:

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_west.html

Steven T.