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Ducks. Fun story. Our duck flock has increased dramatically during the pandemic. Our ducks hatched 11 ducklings and then my mother in law has bought us 4 ducks of various breeds during these uncertain times. Between the ducks and chickens we get about 6-8 dozen eggs a week, which have been nice to give to friends in these challenging times.

I thought I'd also mention that this is the least problematic allergy season in recent memory. The rain has been super helpful. This is generally the peak of the year right now. But zero issues for me.

Latest CFS ensemble members go a little crazy, down into super-Nina territory Basin is pretty cold right now. Latest anomalies as of June 10 show more significant cooling Region 4: 0.0C Region 3.4: -0.6C Region 3: -0.9C Region 1.2: -0.8C Coldest we've seen at this juncture in the season in a long time.

Nice!! About to get wet

I’d wanna live in Tim’s dank, dreary disaster of a climate a thousand times over before I’d wanna live in your shithole of an armpit. I would visit, although it sounds like you’ve already got a Full House minus the Olsen Twins.

That was such a terrible model pullback...yet we still got 1.5” of snow so not too bad. Niña is coming so I think we will do better next year.

Definitely. It’s been about eight years since we’ve seen a significantly wet pattern this late. Which is a pretty remarkable stretch.

At least it’s not a sea of orange and red this time! Notable improvement over the last two weeks, as well.

Omg this. That milky white hazy sky. Ugh. Tim’s deep, radiant, blue sky is an envy of mine when the dog days roll around. It’s why I tease him over filters and stuff. Haha.

I'm still alive. I've experienced hotter heat indexes than that, although your naked in saunas. I regularly use a sauna even during the summer due to it's great health benefits. Excellent way to detoxify your body of bad toxins.

Heavy heat is vomit worthy grossness.

I hope they thrive. Go Ducks!!

I thought the 4th of July was canceled? Maybe we can have one next year.

Currently the only human to ever have had COVID-19 four times and experience 100+ degree dew points.

And there’s a strong trade wind burst on the way for the last week of June, onwards into July. Definitely going to see more ENSO cooling after the solstice this year.

Western Maryland frequently has dew points of ~135F, FWIW.

Kinda reminds me of this clown range frame from last summer:

You are currently doing better than the January Event!

Oberto!

HIO actually up to 0.32”. Wettest day of the month so far!!!

Oh boy.

That's a crazy stretch of dryness. Growing up, I have memories of frequent rainy Junes and the fires were rarely as bad as we've had in the last several years.

Whole lot of passive complaining on here today.

This bodes well for the fire season. I know it isn't rare to have decent precip through mid June, but it doesn't happen every year.

Right but Oregon still in severe drought. We need more rain the second half June but it looks to dry out. Drought will get even worse

Average is the new insufferable.

Hard to believe we have less than a week to go until the longest day of the year.

A pool of "central cool" is looking more and more likely in the 6-10 day and the GEFS seem to be leading the way...

Given it basically stopped raining in mid April last year, I will take this.

The GFS/UKIE very similar in the precip pattern through this weekend, while the Euro remains on its own and farther north and not as widespread.

Did the Cascade Loop today for giggles. Washington Pass still has plenty of snow for this time of year. Stevens Pass does as well. Hopefully this portends well to another good winter for our mountain range. It'd be nice to see some reversal from the 20 year trend, if only temporary.

Managed to get a fair amount of yard work in today! Currently 53 degrees, .06” on the day.

Calling it now. Warm pattern ends at 11:59pm on July 3rd. #2020ing

First time since 2012 that Shawnigan lake hasn’t hit 70 degrees in the first 1/2 of June.

Even if we see a pattern change on or before the 4th, it’s unlikely it would be wet at that point in the season. Probably dry and cloudy at times at “worst”.

Yeah the highest I’ve seen recently is only 113°F on July 28, 2018, on my car’s thermometer. I’ve been trying to get NWS Portland to accept that as a heat record, but they won’t listen.

I believe Snoqualmie Valley, WA hit also 134F. Way back in June 1903.

Holy craaaap this is a TORCH of a gfs run. All fantasy garbage but still... wow. KSEA with 5 days at/above 90, KPDX with 6. And that's just through the end of the run. It still keeps going.

Yea. There are a lot of micro climates up the east coast of the island. Comox is pretty dry getting shadowed by some 5000ft+ peaks but I think north and south of there are wetter. I know that Barkley sound and the Alberni inlet funnel the rain pretty dramatically just to the south of Comox. And yes I believe the west coast is wetter as you go north in the summer. I went camping up around Port Hardy once in August and it pounded down rain. Prob several inches in a few day. Apparently the weather was warm and sunny down here. I have friends hiking up on the north island right now. Think they were maybe gonna try Cape Scott. That’s probably something up your alley.

Yet to be seen. I can picture a lengthy stretch of warmth toward the end of the month to “make up” for this, and it’s not like there are huge negative anomalies to overcome right now anyway. Very nice to finally see a wet June regardless, though.

There are some large scale similarities to 2016 at the moment. But it’s not a perfect match either, particularly over the subtropical NPAC, which was on fire that year (and also in 2017).

Good to know. You should’ve scheduled a trip out here this week, man. Like Seattle in July..Mid-70s, Sunny, low humidity. Makes me realize that I love everyone, even heat misers.

Already up to 0.55" for the day here. Moderate rain currently.

Michigan had some of the strictest lockdowns and we are seeing some of the best results/lowest trending cases in the country. hmmmm....

Anything is better than the CFS.

I'm just gonna keep scrolling down and pretend I didn't see this post.