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

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.

This June still has the feels of a cool/wet month to me, now more than ever.

Guessing he and Phil already started exchanging meat pics awhile ago.

Getting close to the time of year when even a "bad" week is still likely warm and dry enough for quite a few outdoor activities.

Well... the 12Z ECMWF takes away most of the troughing and the rain for next week. I think Jim might have jinxed it again.

Was put in a Frost Advisory last night, but that looks like a mistake. Has only gotten down to 41 here. Lots of moisture chances in the next week, and the very warm weekend forecast has been cooled by multiple storm chances. Our Seniors are done today and this weekend is graduation receptions and the ceremony on Sunday. Outdoor parties could be affected. The rest of the school district is done next Wednesday at 11:30 AM. No hot weather through then, which I won't complain about. PS - got down to 34 degrees officially yesterday morning, May 11th. Light frost on my son's car parked outside, and fairly heavy frost on rooftops.

Watched the whole show! ! 69/41

More meat pictures would definitely help.

Some thunderstorms would brighten the mood! Any progged on the 18z Euro?

Agreed

72 and sunny... another perfect May day.

Good grief

Its nice that Tropical Tidbits lets you look up runs over the last week. Just 5 days ago... the EPS showed the top image for this Sunday. And now it looks like the bottom image. The EPS has been over-promising troughing as well.

12Z ECMWF appears to be significantly delaying the cool down and rain early next week. 00Z run on top and the new 12Z run on the bottom for next Tuesday morning:

I am not sure there will be a prolonged cold period... the 00Z EPS lifted the trough out next week pretty quickly and returns us to a mild pattern. Which has been the way most of the troughing this spring has gone.

Finally raining here again.

Seems like you’ve been trying to pick one for weeks now. Sorry that my hysteria about the warm and dry spring hasn’t met your hopes/expectations

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

Lovely evening!!

Up to 82F. Buckle up for like 30+ 90F days.

Good god this place is unreadable lately. Anyhow, wall to wall to wall to wall sun and dry day again here. 78/46. 12z Euro shows the next 10 days being completely bone dry in the Portland area, so I’m sure the other models will follow suit soon.

It's July 5th already?

Up to 80F and not a cloud in the sky. Now like 15" below normal for the water year on top of -17" last water year and getting worse every day. Ground is cracked and even the weeds are having trouble growing. Grass turning brown...this is very bad.

18Z GFS not delaying the trough next week. It will be interesting to see if the 00Z run picks up on the ECMWF idea.

Warm!

Group rain dance next Wednesday at 8pm @iFred house. I will also sent out a Microsoft teams link for people to attend virtually.

But hey, only 4 hours until 18z Euro/EPS. So we’ll have our answer shortly.

Sun out in full force here now... feels pretty warm out there. Definitely a summery day.

Chance of storms Friday. usually the first ones are wet, so a light at the end of the tunnel?

FWIW... the control run looks just like the ECMWF.

Junuary wants all the glory.

I have noticed a lot of the driest spring / spring months were in the good old days. It's not a bad sign in the overall scheme of things.

Their history is a little scattered, but it looks like 1924 is the driest spring from their reliable records history at 0,68".

Columbia River anti-cloud forcefield

You might end up Level Tim for forum daughter pics at this rate.

Hey look! Jesse wants to fight about something other than the weather! Weird year!

Took most of the day off work.

Cooldown coming this weekend.

Picked up 2.5" last night. Spring (3/1-now) total is up to 38.5", which is the second most I've seen, after the nearly 50" seen in spring 2013.

It's like mother nature wants to put up a road block from I-80 on north...last week the models showed a decent chance for our northern members to score some precip but that has all since trended south due to all the blocking. Sign of the times. 00z Euro...wider view... Meanwhile, out here in the Valley of the Sun, the forecast calls for 2 consecutive days of 100+ Heat later in the week...Fire Season has come out of the gates fast. In fact, there was a small brush fire in Fountain Hills last week that was put out rather quickly. Not so much up in the mountains, however, as there are a couple big fires ongoing. People are praying that we have bonafide Monsoon this season. My gut tells me that this year's Monsoon will be beneficial.

Pattern looks to remain active, cool, and wet for the I 70 corridor. Hopefully some beneficial rains for others who have missed out over the next 10 days.

Rolling through the home stretch on spring, figured I'd post the map of my 14 day rainfall. Very blessed here to not have droughts this year, as the west has begun hoisting drought emergencies yesterday with much of the region under drought of some form.

Minus the two week period in February with the record cold, this winter was pretty much the complete opposite in terms of the relentless winter that was predicted (once again). Basically the entire forum was well above average for temps and some areas did pretty good for snow, but even that ended early for most people with no snow in March.

PDX needs 1.72" of rain the rest of the month to avoid its driest spring on record (1939 at 3.72"). Will be close.

Severe clear in Salem.