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I hear ya, things are good here. Overall health is improving quite well. Hang in there man.

I like the 12z Euro. Ridge never really amplifies and keeps any real heat down where it belongs, in the Southwest.

What's up mofo's?

Thunderstorm right now in Vancouver.

They are also required to repaint the stations white every few years, as that reflects sunlight. When the paint wears out, the station gets darker and absorbs more sunlight, contaminating the readings. Several years ago, I read that, after they painted a station white, the temps "cooled" by a few degrees right after (they compare stations in the area, and know what temps should be relative to each other). Since the other stations had not been painted, you would think the station that had just been painted was now more accurate, and the stations not painted were probably running a few degrees too warm (mainly day time). So they adjusted. Odd thing was that they adjusted the freshly painted, more accurate station upward, so that it matched the less accurate stations where the paint had worn off. Should have adjusted the stations that had not been painted down a couple of degrees, since they knew that the freshly painted one was more accurate. With all the land use changes and relocations, and things like I mentioned above, it is really hard to find trends and averages with all the noise. And things like these don't help either.

I see that one of the Lincoln TV stations said June 1-15 was the hottest start to a June since 1887. 13 of the 15 days were 90 or above. Add today and tomorrow and might be the hottest. At least in my area, we have had a couple of really cool rainy days so I don’t think we are at Lincoln’s mark. Still many 90 or above days with a very persistent wind. Good in that it takes the edge off and dews have stayed in the 40’s-50’s. The bad, the hot and dry wind is really drying things out.

Lots of rain today so far, but the sun is out now. There is so much steam coming off the roof that mini steamnadoes are being formed. Pretty cool!

Had an extreme downpour here a bit ago that dropped nearly a half inch in 15 minutes. Up to 0.78" on the day and 4.52" for June. Over 11" of rain for May/June.

Last night the convo in here was refreshingly nice.

You two kids are about as stoic as a couple of rain soaked wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubemen. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXvMcLrLSY

Who said it doesn't snow in June...... While accumulating snow will mainly impact the higher elevations of the northern Rockies Tuesday night, a few cities like Butte and Anaconda, Montana, could experience a few flakes. Although accumulating snow is not unheard of for portions of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, this late in the season, it is rather unusual. For Butte, Montana, the latest accumulating snowfall of 0.01 of an inch or more on record occurred on June 21, 1916. While for places like Yellowstone National Park, it is a bit more common to record snow in mid-June. A few recording stations in Yellowstone have recorded 0.01 of an inch or more of snow as late as early July. "No thanks." "Anyone planning on camping in the higher grounds of Yellowstone National Park or the Grand Tetons should bundle up and have some snow gear packed with them," said Sadvary.

I just got an email from AKC about tips to keep your dog cool during the summer...The number 1 tip should be to move to western Washington.

When they do the next update see if you can get a current Tim mood emoji!

Tornado in Damascus Saturday.

Only thing I've said is if you hear thunder then you come inside and we can open the windows and hope some ball lightning comes through.

So much for extended heat/drought here. The SW still looking very dry and West TX though, as I don't know how far west and south that will really be this far out. A lot can change in a few days.

55F with some rain. Glad to have every drop since we are still below normal for the water year.

Fixed.

Ironic! Your name popped into my head yesterday during my prayer time. Hope all is well

Just gotta hope they develop a rain vaccine ASAP.

The ENSO forecasts are very encouraging.

A while back I remember reading something written by the Grand Forks NWS office discussing the increase in observed humidity due to evapotransopration in the red river value as corn has increasingly replaced wheat in the area. It makes sense especially as you realize by the end of july spring wheat is maturing and drying out while corn is still green and growing until september. Still, in comparison to a place like MSP or ORD, the humidity is lower in Fargo on average.

Warmest DP I remember from Oklahoma was 87. Went to DC in September a few years back and it was pretty oppressive. Last October in the middle of the month it was really nice. Heard I missed the real bad heat by a week or two.

Dry heat is pretty common for this time of year. Wait till the corn grows. THEN you'll get humidity.

Yeah I noticed. I need a good shot of rain again. I watered the strawberries yesterday as they need a lot right now when they are producing! Are picking 3-4 gallons off the patch every 2 or so days. Freeze most of them and eating them fresh. Yum

Seems like the Euro keeps pushing back the onset of the really warm/hot stuff. Relegated to the middle of next week now. Looks like some warm days but also a lot of onshore flow mitigating things until then.

D*mmit Jesse why u always stealing my pixels.

It’s also the well inland areas that are in the 70s to low 80s, coastal influenced areas (like the west side of the Cascades) are much cooler. Both coastal and inland areas are actually way warmer down here, respectively, which makes sense since we are not in a polar climate.

Yes, I think most people access the area from Fern Ridge Road. If we are going to Mehema or anywhere east of there on Hwy 22 we typically drop onto 22 from Fern Ridge Road. Saw a large bear cross right before the Shellburg TH at about 11am the Saturday before last. The back road out of Silver Falls comes in at the Shellburg campground.

I have always thought the should extend the park out to Shellburg Falls. Develop that area a bit more and spread the crowds out some more. Shellburg Falls is actually very close to the parks SE boundary and in the summer is a fairly short drive on access roads from the 214 Trailhead junction road.

Many people have thought that Silver Creek Falls could be our second national park, but it was never really considered due to the previous logging. The trees are now getting pretty beefy, but I doubt it'll ever happen. Probably would make things worse anyway. With all of Oregon's beauty, it's anomalous that we only have one NP.

It’s June 16th.

Had one strike right to the south of here 5 minutes ago. Super loud thunder.

You must not live near me.

The Willamette Valley hasn't had a "cold" August (using 20th century norms) since 2000. The Puget Sound lowlands haven't had a "cold" August (using 20th century norms) since 2000. As always, I strongly encourage you to actually play around with NCDC's climate at a glance page and utilize the 'Time Series' feature. Since you seem to like maps so much. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series

Severe drought.

Tim in rare form...must...not...go...full...Bryant.

Good lord.

Monthly average is 3.31" so no matter what happens this month, like May will end up solidly above average.

I’m doing well. Surviving. Hope that your health prognosis is looking up.

The 1941-2020 August average is also now heavily skewed upwards with the slew of historically warm ones in the last 7-8 years. Most of those years were right about or slightly above the longterm average at the time. Certainly nothing that stands out as actually being chilly regionally since 2000. 2007 is the closest. Ridiculous stretch.

2020 has been wild...pandemic, economic collapse and riots/mass protests. All we need is a 1990 top tier arctic blast in December to cap it off.

Doing good, thank you.

How have you been?

I was waiting for @BenNoll to post the super blend of the Euro/UKIE for the next several months and I'm intrigued at the overall SST pattern setting up in the central and northern PAC. https://twitter.com/i/status/1272560749194342401

July 2011. Was a 105/78 afternoon, then a t-storm popped up nearby and we got some remnant light rain from it, which took us to 93/86. It felt..scary. Like you couldn’t get oxygen. Thick haze hugging the ground. The physical effects increase exponentially as dewpoints increase through the 70s/80s. Upper 70s are just horrid, lower 80s are borderline dangerous, mid-80s..stay the f**k indoors unless you’re trying to commit suicide. We tend to max out ~ 80-82 here each summer. Haven’t had a summer without an 80° dp since 2012..which was a furnace, but it was a dry/NW flow furnace. Unusual.

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've actually been to hole in the ground, I love geologic phenomenon. I've been to Newberry monument a few times. The obsidian flow is insanely cool. So are the giant pieces of pumice you can pick up. (For those that don't know, they are a rock that floats, well some of them). I've also gone through at least 20 lava tubes, unfortunately most are now closed due to dikkbag vandals.