Warm, mostly dry winter in the PNW. Lower elevation ski areas closed or barely open. While the rest of the country is being hammered with storm after storm. The latest big storm is supposed to affect 40 states, missing us again. It started in So Cal, with a 20 minute hailstorm hitting Orange...
Wettest March on record. (Thus the devastating mud slide in Oso which made the nat'l news) Rained dang near all day today. Not bad in the am, first job, then it picked up. Never put my raingear on, soaked a sweatshirt, and then a fleece...and of course the two layers under that...pants and long...
Yeah, I heard about the extremely wet weather on your side of the pond, Pete. That's far wetter than it was here.
I hope it's improved there as it finally did here. It was July 3 before it turned nice....and then we had that rare lightning event that lingered for a couple days.
Nice and sunny...
It was 48 when I got home today...rained most of the day, we got wet and cold so left a big horse chesnut removal in super close quarters to finish tomorrow. Very technical job, tiny work site to rig into...lots of GRCS lifting.....
I've been slow and bored and not posting much.
It's been our...
54 and raining here. Winter is coming....La Nina may bring low snow levels and lots of it. My knees are fixed. I have a full season's pass to Crystal and Alpental..including the brand new gondola at Crystal.....I'm locked and loaded. Gonna try to find time to resume ski photography.....and get...
A bit overcast here so far today, after a beautiful coupla days in the 80s. We had a good rain Monday...have only had a small handful of days over 90 degrees here in the great Northwest.
I posted this last nite at AS:
Stevens Pass has recorded over 11 inches of rain in the last 40 hours....
Excelsior Mt slide path on the Mt Baker Hwy, ran at least 3500 vertical feet, a 100 year slide path. The mt is not that close to the hwy
here's what the guy who shot the above photo says...
Slide show of the flooding in SW Wa.
http://www.kptv.com/slideshow/weather/18436858/detail.html
Pretty bad....12.5 inches of rain at Steven's Pass ski area, Hyak Ski area half obliterated by mudslide/avalanche....I-90 and I-5 still closed. I dunno if any ski areas will open tomorrow....Crystal...
I didn't ski, the pass was closed all day--avalanche danger and control.
Good thing, as that snow was wet and brought us a bunch of work...
and now, the deluge cometh...flooding could be really bad. 10-20" of rain may hit the west slopes of the mountains...aarrgghh
3.5 inches of new snow here....Snow event number 7....
gonna turn to rain soon.
I'm going skiin'.... it may snow 3 feet before it rains way up there too, dag nab it.
The call is for 8-12" of rain below 5000-7000 feet in the Cascades., starting about Wednesday. That'l bring some bad flooding...
I'm back.....Not often do I quit skiin' before noon....it was danged good, but tracked out quick with only one good chair open.
Round 6 is underway. It's snowing big fat flakes at home, but it's warmer. Only accumulation might happpen a bit north and east of me, or higher up. Then the rains...
You go it, brah..
I'm off in an hour for more freshies. Nukage commences later today when the monster rolls in, 3+ feet of new is predicted.
Orgasmic, dude!!
It snowed a bit more last nite, and this morning.....but will be warming Fri nite.
I skiied today in 18 inches of blower powder, lightly snowing all day! Tomorrow, alpental opens...though the top chair won't, dang it. It accesses 100% black or double black diamond terrain....much of which...
2 more white inches this morning.....might drizzle some rain today before cooling and some snow tonite and XMAS...then back to normal rainy weather for the weekend.
First white XMAS in town I can remember in years. Of course, I'm usually skiing, and will be tomorrow.
Fighting a bit of a...
well, that sucks donkey balz...
I'm just a tad under da weatha, too...
but will prolly be turnin' and burnin' the next few days
arcin' and barkin'
or heck, just pointin' 'em
We usually only get a few inches in the city 0-2 times per yr....more in outlying areas, like last Apr 15, when up to 10 inches fell, which was unheard of for that late.
This storm cycle is very rare....a cold Canadian front swept down from the NE, then weather has come off the Pacific from the...
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