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I had .97" of rain before it switched to snow and clogged my gauge up. About 2" of accumulation so far. A healthy lake effect band is kicking up so may see a few more inches by morning.

Yeah I see Butte just switched over which spells good news for me here once the precip arrives in the next hour or so. Looks like your best bet at at some accumulations is with the wrap around moisture later tonight.

My personal favorite: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/images/westom.gif I think of it as a map answering this question: Can you go out & tour this mountain range and ski in February(green=yes east of cascades).

I enjoy these types of maps [actually maps in general turn me on]

Just mentally factor out the noise. It's easy to interpolate climate patterns from the map. -SW Monsoon peaks late summer/early fall. -Immediate east coast rainfall peaks with Atlantic SSTs, New England nor'easters deliver most precip in transitional seasons. -NPAC jet is most-consolidated in late fall/early winter, then slides south/varies later in winter as mid-latitude waters cool and the thermal gradient relaxes. -Great Lakes' thermal inertia delays peak in temps/rainfall in the downstream vicinity. -The Gulf of Mexico/Continental temperature gradient is an important governor of interior SE US rainfall. -Much of US sees its most intense convective rainfall around the summer solstice, when sun angles are highest. -More moisture available to upper intermountain west in Spring, with residual late-winter jet dynamics and some warm season moisture transport.

That Pacific jet just keeps roaring. Modeling keeps it pumping through April, into May, with the EPAC convection coupled to a westward propagating oceanic Rossby wave, expanding the integral. The California folks will love this, that's for sure. What an epic reversal from the dry Hadley Cell branch regime there.

Docking was the biggest issue for us by far. I have ridden the Port Townsend ferry many times and have never approached the terminal that way. We basically came in parallel to the shore then made a hard right. It was clearly difficult for the captain to line things up with the wind and waves.

It reminds me of your syntax.

No road accumulation, but there is 1" on the side railing in front of the home, and decent amount on grass.

Yea it can get pretty scary when the winds are blowing so strong head on that it almost feels like you're going to drop off the chair. Usually at that point I know to call it a day or ski elsewhere. Since I'm on the mountain all the time I also don't feel guilty about going up for an hour and then calling it if I don't like it.

Spring cyclones generally grow stronger with a sharpening meridional temperature gradient during boreal winter/spring. That's the primary large scale primer cyclogenesis, which acts to re-equilibrate the macroscale boundary state to some degree.