Rain

Looks like we will get a little rain later, but we're about at the time of year where I won't expect to see much here on out until October.
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Will take all the rain we can get. Reduces/delays fires, less/delays watering of lawns and/or gardens and keeps rivers/streams at a higher flow. All good IMHO...
 
Made a quick motorcycle trip from yakima to Victoria bc. Friday was very windy, but 5 to 10 minutes of rain just before gold bar. Breezed through border crossing and enjoyed the ferry ride. Saturday on return trip while on the ferry, I noticed definite rain towards bellingham. Sure enough, sat or stood for 90 minutes in steady rain at the peace arch border crossing. After drying out at 70+mph was feeling pretty good. Just after cresting stevens pass, was hit with solid h2o. 1" standing water over road. Cars were slowing to 45mph. Solid rain till wenatchee lake turn off. Then sun n wind till yakima. Gotta love the rain on motorcycle trips, wet visor inside n out.
 
We in the NW should be thankful for the rain we get. Much better than the hurricanes down South, tornadoes with flash floods and grapefruit size hail.
 
RCF said:
We in the NW should be thankful for the rain we get. Much better than the hurricanes down South, tornadoes with flash floods and grapefruit size hail.
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We are....and the snow.

I think PNW fires are more on par with the hurricanes and tornadoes we don't have to deal with. We also have the lurking threat of a subduction zone earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption.
 
I hear it all the time from folks living in the Great Plains (when I ask about gorilla hail and tornadoes) - they wonder how we can put up with wildfires... We encountered softball sized hail during a tornadic storm in eastern Wyoming back in 2010. A miscalculation on the location of the hail core resulted in a couple of smashed windshields.

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Back to Brian's topic of Rain - we've received nearly 200% of normal for May at our place on the Oregon Coast and the higher than normal river flows have mucked up our tidewater springer fishing. It looks like some better days are ahead so we are hoping the fish loiter a bit before blasting upriver. So far it's been tough going. I am also blaming the rain for my gopher problems this spring. :rolleyes:

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Really nice day today with the rain and clouds. I’m hoping it sticks around for the rest of the holiday weekend.
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My grandpa had an early 70s C10 pickup. The red was faded and it was more or less a farm/ranch truck. One summer I decided to wash it (probably its first washing). He came outside and says…”What…do you want it to fall apart?” I even cleaned the snuff drips off the windows (inside and out)… 😳

I learned to drive in that truck out in the fields…three on the tree and a stiff clutch…FUN TIMES. 😁
 
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DimeBrite said:
Cliff Mass threatening us with more talk of rain. Serious precipitation volumes inbound. He is threatening our drought emergency!

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Heavy Precipitation Event with Record River Levels

This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics
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Two thoughts:

1. Holy crap that's a lot of rain. I'm not really looking forward to it. But at least it should help with the water situation and wildfire risk.
2. Cliff's website sure looks like garbage these days. Why he stayed on blogspot for so long and didn't move to a nice clean WordPress site, I'll never know.
 
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