Front Ranger

Nice spot! Gate looks breachable, however.

Looks like a video game screenshot.

I've never even heard/read anything about "local climate change" and rarely even UHI in mainstream media. The messages that have been hammered home by most scientists (and activists) almost always are based around global warming - even if local stats and trends provide the reference.

Here it doesn't start until over 12,000 feet in general.

SLE, downtown Portland, and Seattle WFO also all within a degree of average.

Just the facts, man. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Most spots are within a degree of normal. PDX once again representing the extreme in one direction.

If this April does end up well below normal for precip across the region, it will join the following years from the past 20: 2021, 2020, 2016, 2015, 2008, 2007, and 2004. Doesn't appear to be much correlation to following summer weather or fire season. Best matches ENSO wise would be 2016 and 2007.

On that side.

Nice soaking rain this am, picked up almost half an inch. The green up should start in earnest within a week or so.

Nothing big. But only a couple above normal days after today.

Funny, I'm headed down to Confluence Park today. The South Platte should be much higher and kinda look like a real river in a month or so.

GFS gives bountiful snowfall to the central Rockies over the coming 6 days. Good news for irrigation this summer throughout the Southwest...the upper Colorado river basin snowpack is already in pretty good shape, upcoming pattern will improve things further.

Get some lotion on those hands, amigo!

The Eugene/Springfield firestorm apocalypse may have to wait yet another year.