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1.05" of rainfall/hail yesterday afternoon/evening with the strong storms that moved through here before changing to heavy snowfall around midnight. Measured 7" this morning! Pretty incredible for May 8th. Currently 28F.

Getting married tomorrow so that’s why I’ve not been around a ton of late. Looks like we are about 68F out there and are ready for some much-needed rainfall overnight.

Well I haven't been around in a while. Been a little, erm, preoccupied. Hope everyone's enjoying the sunshine and warmth lately! I'll be in Arizona for the weekend, and hopeful I don't melt!

For everywhere wondering/speculating about where I have been, I am very flattered We have been on a road trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone this week. Took a nice week off before starting a new job later this month. It’s been gorgeous. Amazingly chilly out this way despite how warm it has been closer to the coast. It has snowed at some point the last 4 days, and most mornings have been in the teens. The extremely boring weather back home is part of the reason I haven’t posted much, but it’s also really nice just to unplug for several days and enjoy nature. Will be back in town

Here are a couple of pictures of the rainbow last night, credit to Randy Small photography/Whatcom County Weather FB page I am bummed I missed out on it and the sunset, got the second round of the Covid vaccine Wednesday and felt like hell yesterday.

What an absolute perfect day to be at the lake. Went to exercise at Seward Park after work and it was stunning. Also went for another bout of exercise before the sun set at Jefferson Park with a wonderful sun halo but forgot to took some pictures.

Pretty sunset.

Most likely a bear. They are very quiet when they walk. My neighborhood has around 40 black bears at any given time and starting around Memorial day through Labor day you see one almost every day if you do a dog walk early in the morning. These Bears don't even acknowledge you when you are near them. I have my black Labrador off leash and he just stares at them. Most of these pictures I am less than 50' from the bears.

Watched the whole show! ! 69/41

I think Washington had a great display the otehr day, this was on my way into/and at work. I had to stop and pull over at the river. Was only the 2nd time I've seen anything other than a standard halo/sun dogs. No apologies about the logo haha, and Facebook really crapped on the quality too :0

Had to run back into work real quick to grab something off my desk...Caught this awesome sky on the way back home!

Took most of the day off work.

Just realized I posted in the April thread. Would help if the right one was stickied. Anyways, it was a gorgeous May day for a Mariners game. Got the W too!

If you go to Lake Chelan, take the boat to Stehekin and stay a couple of days. No TV, phone, or internet. My wife and I go every year. You can camp, stay at the main lodge at the dock, or rent a house. The only cars are for the few locals that live there. We rent bikes and bike to the falls and the bakery, though there are more places beyond there. Great scenery.

Good morning from Pinetop, AZ where the elevation is about 7,200 ft. It’s a cool, crisp 48F this morning. Yesterday, was a very breezy day up in the mountains while in the valley it warmed into the 90’s. The temp topped out at 65F up here under prestige blue skies. I’ve never been up in the White Mountains in eastern AZ so this was a first and I will say that I’m impressed with what I’ve seen. The forests in this region are thicker and there are more pines than in any part of this state. It sorta reminds me of places that I’ve been to up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin to be honest. It f

It was pretty spectacular here although I got dumped on while taking this shot (as you can see by all the raindrops on the lens). Yesterday was a fun day in general. Warmest day of the month so far at 67F (way warmer than the 61F from Wednesday) and strongest May wind gust in more than a decade at 33 mph. Then the storm moved through and provided this sunset. I wish I'd gotten out to the water just a few minutes earlier because when the sun was still up in the sky the light was incredible.

Don’t see this every day.. Occurred Friday in Lockett ,Texas Picture compliments of Capital Weather Gang

Enjoying the sun on the deck right now and I have a visitor...

Trout for dayz. Gorgeous day in the valley and on the central coast. Down to 48 now, just finished gutting the fish.

Lovely evening!!

It's 2:52 AM in Barrow, Alaska and the sun is just rising. It will not set again until August 2nd...

Everything sliding by to my north but makes for some cool looking skies.

Beautiful day. Lots of dark a** clouds on the horizon that reminded me of spring storms in Texas. Amazing sunset to finish it off.

Beautiful day for a ball game!

62 here and kinda breezy. Good day for gettin stuff done. Azalea is at its peak. Rhodies are a few days away.

Starting to get green. Hope we can have at least normal rainfall in May to keep this going! Remodeling both our bathrooms, hence the toilet on the deck. Lol

snowed most of the day yesterday..today was nice but cool, 36 for most of the day. Got a few good waterfalls in before the snow tonight.

Had a family of Cougars walking past my driveway sensor at 1am last year...I had mostly stopped getting up to look when it would go off in the middle of the night since it would always be deer setting it off. But that time I decided to get up and look and for a second I thought I was dreaming but nope it was mom and her at least 3 young adult fully grown children walking past the sensor all in a line...I could not get back to sleep since I was so excited about what I had seen!

We have been eating outside on the deck for nearly a week now...I doubt we will see another April this nice again for a very long time! Dogs have been stoked since they are not allowed in the kitchen so dinner time begging is extremely rare!

3.5 inches of snow fell here in my part of KC. Started snowing at 3:30 am and coated grass, cars, and elevated areas. Stuck to everything except the streets. (streets might have gotten slushy for a bit when that heavy band moved through) KCI needed 2.8 inches to set an all time record for April 20th,I think they made it. Now.....at 12:05, barely can tell it snowed. Almost totally gone. The ole April sun angle got to it. What a morning!

In da Yoop till move in day on May 7th. 3" down.

Beautiful morning at Lake Wilderness!

Wow... 00Z GFS ups the ante.

Seabreeze convergence around noon yesterday made for some photogenic cumulus congestus.

Picked up 3.3" of rain at my house the last couple of days in strong storms with some small hail, but nothing particularly severe. We did score a tornado watch here for the first time since 2019 (I assume - none in 2020), but the conditions were pretty marginal I thought. Kind of like the MLB player that breaks his 0 for 20 hitless streak by hitting a soft popup that nobody gets to. Still, better than a tornado grand slam for sure...lol

1.11" is my rain total. I'm satisfied with that.

That is likely the first time anyone has ever put those words together in that order.

Wedding went off without a hitch! And it didn't rain on us, it came through overnight! Looks like Springfield managed to pick up a half inch of rain but the airport only had 0.33 good lord what a disaster. And it looks like more warmer and drier than normal weather on the way...shocker.

Didn’t have as good of a westerly view where I was last night but was pretty nice!

A little fishing to get my mind off the drought. Sure is nice.

Got heavier. MVI_2249.MOV

Spokane still looking like a possible place to get our next house. Whoever lives here next will surely be surprised at the deer activity we get from week to week up the hill. It's like their second home. Getting the house cleaned up a bit and may fix a couple things before getting on the market. Homes have gone up in value since moving here in 2012. I have checked out and considered Montana a few times but eastern Washington has overall a similar climate to my current one. And there is so much stuff in Spokane, chances are the home we end up choosing will be within a walk distance f

Nice evening. Front lawn looking good after 2 days of watering.

Officially 3.1" in TOP yesterday. This bumped us up to 15.5" for the season which is still 2.3" below the seasonal norm of 17.8". I had closer to 4" at my house. By afternoon it had all melted. It's like winter was in town for a few hours and stopped by to visit before moving on.

Snow..... Not the greatest pictures but pretty special, no less, to see it puke snow under max sun in April down here.

The yard really liked this warm weekend!

The cottonwoods are nearly fully leafed out after three days after going from green buds to leaves.

Calm this morning.

Went down for a nap at 9am this morning and it was sunny and calm. Woke up at about noon and it was absolutely vomiting Buick sized flakes and the wind was howling.

A refreshing 70°! Meat is on the smoker!!