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Storms still firing off but time for some rest. Crazy storms today with dramatic skies! One bolt almost tagged me

That storm was awesome! Had some gusts 40-50mph…with frequent lightning and heavy rain. Picked up 0.40” with the storm so far. Will have to go through the footage tomorrow and edit it down to when the winds ripped through but it was really impressive! Quite the shelf cloud rolling through.

Took a day hike at the UBC Malcolm Knapp Research Forest and can confirm that this late August wet spell has brought the mushrooms out.

Last night was wild. Included the fire that was raging before the rain started.

I might be moving to Maine in November! Not finalized but I’m allowing myself to dream.

It was a good day.

Wanted to share some more photos from last weekends storm as well as the Timelapse of the storm coming in that evening now than I’ve had the chance to edit some of the footage and some pictures as well. timelapse.mov IMG_8768.mov IMG_8772.mov

In Jackson Hole for the weekend. Amazing wx. So far, I've seen two bald eagles and two moose.

Fun day yesterday for some hiking/skiing/swimming on Broken Top. Was in the mid 70s at 8000 which feels pretty warm that high up. Smoke moved right as we were heading down

Shelf cloud moving over my house! Breezy and frequent lightning!

Looking ominous to the southwest. Thunder rumbles resuming.

Apologies for the lack of posts. I do night work and sleep through the afternoons (except for on Saturdays). Not work I'm proud of but it brings money in. Our Walmart in Ashland is doing a remodel and their pay isn't bad if you get full time.

Strikes every couple mins now. This is great!

In Andrew country.

We couldn’t make it to Baker today, but here’s some pics from a year ago this weekend. We had just received the kids’ passports, so it was their first time in the US despite us only being 13 miles from the Sumas border crossing. (Crossed it dozens of times prior to having kids).

It’s cold out.

Thunder and rain starting here!

Was mainly trying to catch some of the meteor shower but ended up seeing some pretty scenic northern lights from the deck last night.

From last weekend.

Just got back from a lovely two nights camping at Three Creeks lake south of Sisters, OR. Had thunderstorms both Friday evening and last late afternoon/evening. The one yesterday was pretty exciting with heavy rain at points and VERY close lightning/thunder. It was a good thing we had awnings up. Otherwise it was partly to mostly sunny with mild temps, highs in the mid 70s and lows around 50 which isn’t all that cold for 6,500’. There was smoke and haze at times but I think we were above most of it.

I accidentally posted these in the August topic a few days ago and no one saw them. Figured you'd want to see these. Some very cool Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds (Wave Clouds) were seen September 3rd off of Whidbey Island. Photos taken at Cultus Bay on the southern end of Whidbey Island, south of Clinton.

Well I decided to turn my broken jetski lift tragedy from last weekend into a fun Friday off since the jetski is parked in my driveway. Went to a couple of lakes I had never been on before, started out at Big Lake this morning (first pic) but found it a bit boring and dirty so I went up to Lake Cavanaugh (all the other pics) Oh it’s spectacular…Just like when it snow up there! I would move up there in a heartbeat. Back home now at my non HOA property…Thankfully as I’m sure they would force me to cut down Sick Phil!

Caution, cloud and sunset pictures.

iPhone can’t do it justice.

ChatGPT needs some work.

Mesoscale guidance is starting to show feeding midlevel convection for hours behind the main band with more intermittent thunder. Fun, dynamic storm!

Officially 0.80" here after an hour of rain. Heaviest hourly rainfall here in a few years, and looking to be the heaviest August rainfall here in at least a decade. Thunder/lightning still ongoing every couple minutes.

Some camera views in southern Oregon and northern California

Photo from my recent camping trip. Eaton Lake in the Canadian Cascades.

Turning into a tradition of ice cream at Birchwood Dairy on the Friday before school starts for the rug rats. Only about a five minute drive from the Sumas border crossing. How will Jesse express his distain? If the “death ridge” is over us next Saturday, to Mt. Baker we go.

From Tuesday night.

Crazy squall line while driving thru Carson City 7 hours ago

Snowing in the central OR Cascades Going to head up there in a few hours

Cloudwatcher's paradise this afternoon. 65F. Arguably a perfect summer day.

Wow! A second helping for some of you today. Crazy fun photos all. as that line approached my cameras went down again. Unsure if it was the winds or what. I’m did get to enjoy some action on the Utah/Nevada boarder today. My 4Runner got a nice pressure washing from a couple of the storms

Pretty cool.

Winding down in Everett, or at least it’s starting to feel like that. Had two distinct bursts of southerlies which were strong enough to make some trees creak but not much else. The approach of the event was a bit otherworldly. Went out with my son to catch his first lightning bolt, and much like Summanus, he was overjoyed when the twilight was instantaneously illuminated in a bright white. As the shelf started to encroach overhead, we caught a few planes that were trying to wait out the storm. Checking FlightAware later I noticed that there was a bit of a traffic jam over PAE and then they scattered like scared children to GEG and BLI. Poor folks who spent six hours from DC now have to overnight at America’s blandest airport. Had a decent clip of rain but it looks like the squall line broke apart as it most likely saw influence from the strait and no longer had the cozy Puget Sound atmospheric hallway to barrel down through. Bam! As I write this, first flash of purple lightning since 2019 and only the third I’ve seen outside of South Dakota. It was a great evening and a life long memory to have of my boy going “oh wow”.

It’s pouring now. Hearing thunder!!

Some sunset shots.

SPC now has a slight risk for portions of Washington and Oregon

Picked the right day for my first mariner’s game

Cashmere after the rain passed through. #nofilter

Best peach output this year!! Also grew my first egg plant! BLT season in full swing. Im a little worried about tomorrow night with the tomatoes, so im going to cover them. I picked some great varieties because they look awesome even in the mild and wet conditions.

Installed a second weather station today in honor of Dewey. Spent the last hour and a half trying to get it to connect to WiFi. Still no luck.

I'm sitting in my office, illuminated by an array of monitors and a nice bright lamp. The mug of coffee on my desk is hot, and ceramic keys on my keyboard cold. I look to my left outside my double aspect window to see my neighborhood street shimmering in ponding water as a steady rain falls. The forested hillside in the distance is hidden in a sheer covering of mist while the cottonwoods and conifers between here and there add to the lovely and dark mood. The added touch to make this morning so right is my neighbor who left their porch light on. A dull amber gem, illumination for no one but me. A fitting way to great the first solidly throw of fall.

Good one tonight.

Sitting on the porch and it is POURING down rain, blustery but not bad, but lots and lots of lightning and thunder. Of Course I saw more than I actually captured. First video is the heavy rain. Second is some lightning. Neat to feel the temperate decline. VID_20240817_213818104.mp4 VID_20240817_212554088.mp4

Just wow to the amount of lightning in these storms!

Sneak peek of the Timelapse I’ll be setting up this evening. Really excited to see how it turns out looking ESE over commencement bay tonight. 20240817_145524.mov