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Nice day. We have 6 cords of mixed wood, mostly oak and maple, from the ice storm. Much more still to haul up, stack, and eventually begin splitting.

I went to Sumner and Bonney Lake yesterday. Nice area.

Jimmy Page preparing to check the 12z GFS.

2014 also featured a considerably wetter spring. Literal opposite of this year. Very wet March, wettish April and May, and a fairly wet and troughy June. Even summer 2014 at least featured some decent convective opportunities and moist/humid southerly flow. I have a feeling at this point that the dry theme is going to continue until the Pacific storm season starts back up.

Our first thunderstorm of the year is a good one. 2 hours of continuous lightning with house shaking thunder. Heavy rain and hail as well

I’m now mowing every 3 days. I wouldn’t want to have waited another day. It almost grows as you stare at it. What a pattern. Now 10 inches above last year on this date and at least 5” above normal for the year so far. Will only add to it in the next 10 days.

Sand bar is almost above the surface now... and it is some places. Good enough to ride up on it and park and let the kids play.

Been kind of a goldilocks month after the warm April. Just persistently mild so far with little variation. Actually looks like PDX's 82 might hold as their high for the month, which would be the lowest May max there since 2011. Although I probably just jinxed it.

Gfs shows a pretty decent system down there around day 8-10 on the latest run but with how things have been going don’t know how much longer that’ll be showing up. 0.2-0.5” of rain across the western lowlands over the next week is really not enough to do much help. One positive I guess is that we’re not getting more ridging for now.

Gosh, I hope the NAM's are right with the slight nudge north with tomorrow's wave....over an inch of rain would be awesome...

Rain and thunderstorms this morning. Everything feels like mid May except its only 57 degrees.

Cicada plague started in Tennessee. Found these on facebook.

I am pretty sure you have a plaque in your office to celebrate it either way, bring it out during special occasions, show it to your neighbors etc...

Trouble is brewing to the northwest! I see the first high clouds of that deep trough incoming.

Starting to grow out of that crap has definitely played a role. But in my defense the weather has also been incredibly dead this spring. The discussion here tends to be better here when there is active weather to discuss. Otherwise it’s mostly just a sea of yard/boating pics and cicada updates lately.

Mid-week was going to be my next snow (possibly measurable) and t'storms late week. NWS still wants to mention all that but who knows what it will do now.

I think you just grew out of the typical springs of old where it was you and Tim going back and forth about six of one/half dozen of another. Phil has picked up that torch.

Incidentally, our last significant precipitation here (1/2"+) was February 12. Snow day. Gotta go back another 10 days to find something in liquid form.

Freeway medians are as brown as mid July right now. Ironically, this should keep them from burning as vigorously in late summer thanks to the stunted growth. No masks or snow piles here at Costco this morning. Wall to wall sunshine coming up on this sunny Sunday with temps into the low 80’s. Now here’s Led Zepplin with The Rain Song here on KDRT, your cicada station...

At this point rain and avoiding a costly fire season are the main concerns, even if that means temps staying warm which feels like a given. Fire fuel is a couple months ahead of schedule right now and a dry summer would probably mean doubling our normal amount of fuel. We'd effectively be talking about two summers in one if June/July/August all avoid significant rain.

I had 1.9” this morning with thunderstorms that rolled in at 4:30 AM. Rain chances all week. Might need to mow the lawn every 2 days.

As daylight emerges, I am noticing the pavement is damp everywhere except for underneath the trees. We must have had a very light shower come through overnight. It's to bad I missed the best rains to my south yesterday. I'm hopeful later Tue/Wed there will be more widespread rains. As most of us around the GL's need the moisture, none more so would be @FAR_Weather and that is what the 00z EPS is suggesting through next weekend! That's quiet the dramatic amount of moisture for the heartland...keep it coming for our ag belt! Next weekend is looking mighty fine with mid/upper 80's and sunshine around here. Summer tease before a backdoor CF sweeps through ushering a "cool breeze" early the following week.

I saw a caterpillar crawling across my driveway today.

Really impressive GFS run if you're a fan of cool northerly flow and chilly nights. The meteograms spit out numerous lows below 40 for the cooler locations. Looks like this will be the second consecutive month to feature a huge range between the average high and average low.

78/47 currently 64* My froggy is croaking like clockwork this evening (critter reports).

They’ve been emerging steadily here this evening as well. Which is kind of surprising given it was raining and in the 50s during the second half of the day. Guesstimating at least 10-15,000 new holes popped up today in the rain (with the nymphs still inside). Adding to the 100,000+ already visible outside the woods (and likely many more in the woods). It’s gonna get wild when the death ridge takes over later in the week. They’ll probably all erupt simultaneously between Wednesday - Friday.

Looks like we have some exceptional (for recent times) min temps coming up later this week. The ECMWF and GFS are both advertising back to back lows in the 30s for later this week. I've only recorded 3 lows below 40 after May 20 in the 20 years I've lived here and those were only either 38 or 39. As it is, even the recent mins have been chillier than normal in favored locations. We continue to see situations this year where we are getting chilly air masses with fairly dry northerly flow.

Up to 84F and beautiful out there. Very dry tho.

Disaster? It's going exactly the way the global elites want it. Maybe a disaster for us but profit and power for them and the global insurance agencies! Watch for massive land grabs/water wars and political boundary changes in the next few years. And that will be the 'nice' scenario.

That's all he has to live for.

I have indeed noticed a trend for the weather to be more substantively discussed when the weather it active. We’ll have to look into that. Meanwhile, here’s a boat/yard combo pic!

They do...have some friends and family that live out that way and they do get quite a bit more snow.

Good news with the faster timing is that Wednesday looks pretty much dry now and fairly sunny.

And a death battle thread. Bathroom Centipede versus snack cabinet Wolf Spider!

I hardly know anything about them, but we get ones that don't swarm obviously. Typically just a couple of them buzzing at once and they're not loud at all.

I start getting a few around the end of May or first few days of June.

Those are some stoopid articles. Basically the media caught onto a few early emergences in urban areas and claimed they were “ahead of schedule”. But these periodical cicadas have rigid internal clocks..they almost always emerge in mid-May. Which they are now doing, en masse. Which is “delayed” based on the faulty timeline from TWC et al. But biologically this is right on time. In 2004 they started emerging here on the 14th. This year, they started emerging on the 15th. DELAYED!

Enjoy! I’m heading to the lake today as well! Just to mow though. One of these days I will get the boat ready for spring.

TWC is saying Cicadas have a delayed arrival. Who to believe, them or Phil?

A warm summer for the west. Nice change of pace! Does ENSO state even matter anymore?

We have gotta be enduring our driest 2-year stretch down this way. This is unbelievable for someone that remembers cooler and sometimes some wetter weather than this disaster. -32" for the last 2 years combined...fuckk!!!!

Feels a bit like June-July 2015 did after the record dry pattern took over. Extremely low soil moisture content relative to average likely exacerbated the surface heating with some of those patterns, as it seems to be doing now.

Completely socked in here.

Yeah the last few mornings the fog layer has gotten to right about my house and stopped.

Thinking about the 4th of July weekend??? We may want to revert back to this map as reference...Heat wave???

I can empathize. Not a drop of rain here on the 00z Euro, with highs in the mid/upper 90s. Really early for this. I fear it’s a shot across the bow.

Whatever solution keeps us in the long term regional drought conditions we have seen for years now with well above average temps to boot will invariably verify.

There are more cutoff lows on the 00z Euro than there are cicadas in the US right now.

I had a dragonfly slam into my sliding glass door today. It was able to fly away.

They're more of an issue a bit outside of town. Not so much at my place when you're not around bodies of water.