The Daily Bucket is a place to catch your casual observations of the natural world and turn them into a valuable resource. Whether it's the first flowers of spring or that odd bug in your basement, don't be afraid to toss your thoughts into the bucket. Check here for a more complete description.
Normally Mark does the Daily Bucket, complete with a map. The mapping is only part of why it is necessary for those reporting on phenomena to give their location by naming a town or city nearby. My title implies that it is pounding rain here, but where the hell is here? The what is a bit useless without the where. In this case, the entire greater San Francisco Bay Area, or more specifically, the Hayward/Castro Valley area. It has been pounding for a while now, since yesterday, with temps in the forties (46 right now).
In other fun news, my back is shafted, so I'm not even going to try to learn the map stuff, and will check for comments periodically, but I can't simply camp here because I can't sit that long.
OK, now it is time for all of your observations, including location information.
Share your own observations in comments, and I'll add a marker to the map. Please give a city and state (as close as you feel comfortable in providing). Green pins for observations mostly about plants, brown for animals, and blue for weather or other inorganic items. The letter at the center of each pin will be the first letter of the user who provides the data.