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Wow I have never had a lab live past 12. Donner turns 8 next Thursday. I hope he is the first to make it past 12.

Friends of ours are fostering an eight week old English lab who’s gonna become a service dog. Fattest black potato I’ve ever seen.

The trees are beautiful this week. And for the old pet talk, my oldest cat turns 14 this month.

Finshed this system with 2.07"!!! Several hours of light wet snow today. By far juiciest system since late Oct. So in past 8 days ive recorded 3.05" together with the 7 inches of snow 1st week of March a very wet month compared to avg. Nice way to prepare for growing season! We dredged our small pond last July i didn't expect it would fill this much in March!

It's actually doubled in the last four decades according to what I just read. And from 2002 to 2018 the life expectancy of dogs increased from 10.5 to 11.8 years.

The old man approves of today’s weather, although he’s pretty sideways about the fact we’re out of Beggin’ Strips.

Donner dont look starvin imo

How old is your dog? We have a yellow lab that we got where Randy works on whim while driving back from Bellingham after the 4th of July weekend in 2007 when my boys were 6 years old. My wife said "hey lets stop and let the boys play with some dogs" and taking that exit off I-5 turned into a 15-year commitment and still going! They estimated he was 9 months old when we got him so that means he turns 16 this year and he really has not slowed down too much. Energizer bunny.

Sunday could be very interesting in the Willamette Valley, as well as the Cascades in both WA and OR. The warm season approacheth

Trees still snapping, we have kept power since 2pm with only a few flickers. If it gets windy its lights out for a lot of people. The red and white pines are shedsing heavy branches. On a 15min walk saw and heard 7 fall. Came back to one in our driveway! Most are in the 4-6" diameter range Some 8+". It's beautiful though.....did I hear something about a big dog next week???

This was 20 feet from where I was getting gas in North Bend about 20 minutes ago. I was the weirdo walking away from the pump while the car was filling up to take a picture of trees.

I had a lab when I was a kid. Got her right before the December 1990 arctic blast hit. She lived until 2004. Had a wiener dog too and she lived to be 15. The dog that is my avatar is 10 1/2 and doing well. That pic was taken in a canoe on Olallie Lake when she was 1. She looks and acts the same. I actually must credit my ex wife with fostering my love of dogs, she actually found Molly and brought her into the home. In a cruel twist of fate her 2nd husband has bad allergies and doesn’t allow pets in the home.

Certified artificial. It’s greened up very nicely in the last couple weeks.

In the mid-late 90s when the PNW was experiencing a pretty wet period, the general consensus was our climate would get wetter as it warmed. So I think a lot of these predictions are often tinged with what's been going on recently.

I was worried that Spring was going to become this: But instead, we still have hope for a Droughtless La Nina Summer!

The week of memorial day last year was brutal. The ongoing joke up here is to expect snow the week of memorial day.

I have been following him for a number of years and find that his modeling is a great LR model for severe wx. I've had my sights on this storm to end the month with a bang for the S Plains/MW. Looks like it'll get pretty wild in your region. Meantime, both GEFS/EPS are loading up the moisture train for the central Plains...and more snow to open APR for some...

Someone needs to fix this.

Putting the SW US drought in context, as ugly as it’s been of late, it’s actually not unprecedented (even in the context of only the last 100 years, let alone the last 1000+). This is significant variability, offering the possibility that these trends could reverse in the coming years/decades.

Also interesting how the Midwest has cooled in F/M/A/M. It’s not insignificant, either.

Behold the power of Rice Hill!

It’s 55F and beautiful down here. No frogs to be heard. Just enough rain for the month but not a plethora. Honestly, this time of year we are one of the most pleasant places to be on the entire planet. Maybe one day you can have a spring/early summer timeshare here Tim. It’s really beautiful this time of year and doesn’t rain much.

That's quite an army you have!

Its definitely becoming wetter overall up here. The 1991-2020 update increased average rainfall in Seattle. And the last decade has been one of the wettest in history in Seattle. But the increase has mostly been in the rainy season. I think the consensus is that there are more AR events now so it does not really help with mountain snow. And the its also being offset by warmer summers.

Interesting. I think it depends on the specifics of the forcing(s)/boundary conditions involved. Based on proxy data, I’d argue the region with the most dramatic climate variability is actually the North Atlantic domain (including Europe and Eastern North America). It appears to be unmatched anywhere else on the planet. It’s just that the triggers are likely different. And as you alluded to, degree of variability ≠ sensitivity to change at any given point in time, necessarily. Perhaps each region is “sensitive” to a unique set of conditions which may or may not present itself.

We had 10.8" with that event. It's actually the latest significant snow event we've had since I've lived here. Don't really remember much about the setup, but it was a pretty nice event. I remember summer started around April 22nd that year, so a little later... Just kidding, but May was like a normal July that year, and then July was ridiculously warm, I think Salem had 18 90+ days that July.

12Z is very wet in early April...

In Tahoe June is the no mans land. Usually to early for heatwaves , to late for snow, and to early for the Monsoon. Our last snow is generally the week of Memorial day weekend (snow on 6 out of the last 8 years)

Depending on the year, September was the driest month in the Klamath Basin. I had one year only a trace of precip was recorded between Sep 1st thru Oct 15th. Internet will say July, but I found t'storm season would have to be near non-existent for that to be the driest. Early Fall was most of the time a beautiful time of year. Someone will name drop 2018 or 2020 smoke tho, but take it from someone who did more than just drive by town for a week. September even on the dead calm days, typically has 20 mile visibility. Still warm that time of year but not really hot. It wouldn't often get higher than 90 but rarely below 70 through late September, and DP's in the 40 ish range. I just didn't like the weeks in a row of dry, it can get old.

It’s likely in response to AGW with interdecadal variability. Though there are some questions that remain… Does the system respond to AGW as expected, or does the system state remain while also ambiently warming? Evidence points to a combination of the two, leaning towards the former, but it’s nearly impossible to tell for certain. Time will tell. The western coast of the US is the most sensitive location in the midlatitude northern hemisphere when it comes to climate. Rather benign shifts in weather patterns that would minutely alter climate on the east coast translate to massive changes in annual rainfall over a majority of the west. The OR/CA border region into the OR cascades and down into the Sierras are particularly susceptible to dramatic changes, often changing climate zones alltogether from century to century, or even decade to decade. We’ve already seen this recently in the last 50 years. Since the region is so heavily forested and harbors such developed ecosystems and large biodiversity, we stand the most to lose with climate change. Though there are no winners of course.

Looking at the models it seems that once again a nightmare scenario is developing with summer starting even earlier than ever. Essentially late March this year.

Mid September to late December is easily the most interesting and dynamic part of the year here.

March is going to end with a BANG!

Yep. Time to buckle up and let the games begin.

If March is going to go out like a lion, then, sure why not.... My highs look brutal next week w potentially remaining in the 20s and teens for lows. Yikes.

My current March precip total is 3.44". This is our wettest March in thirteen years.

Solid winter up here! A White Christmas, the massive dump and arctic chill in February, and the little bonus in March!

I was going to say, we are closed on the 4th! During that time period I was a volunteer dog walker and helped with the training program that we used to have here so I was a part of NOAH, just in an unpaid capacity! I was one year into my job at the Senior Community so my golf course days were freshly behind me. Seems like yesterday but at the same time so long ago. I might have met your dog back then before you adopted!

The Mid Atlantic into the Northeast seems to be becoming increasingly influenced by the Gulf Stream of course, and increasingly subtropical as a result. That means warmer and wetter. Central Park's data is telling because it's such a long and unbroken POR https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ny5801 Their annual precip has shifted considerably upward in the last few decades. Far more really warm days in DJF now, as well.

Interesting.

There are signs of heat and drought damage all over western wa too slightly higher winter rainfall doesn’t offset the warmer and drier warm seasons even up there

Willamette Valley weenie mode. It’s a thing.

Light to moderate rain off/on through the day today with a steady onshore wind. Pretty raw. Temps should warm through the night under WAA, reaching the low/mid 60s by daybreak. Some elevated convection developing over the VA Piedmont as well, hopefully it makes it here.

Woke up to a surprise in Santa Fe New Mexico this morning

I've been on the sidelines these past few days and slowly getting back into tracking this storm. The footage coming from the deep south is remarkable and I'm sending prayers and positive vibes to all that have been effected. This has turned out to be one massive and powerful storm. It's mind boggling that it literally is effecting everyone from the U.S./Canada border all the way down towards the Gulf coast. Quite and expansive system and a very slow mover...I've always enjoyed tracking these type of storms and I got a hunch that this is how our Spring wx pattern will continue into APR and MAY.

Tornado was just NW of me and on the edge of that rolling thunder I was hearing. it was an incredibly dynamic storm. Our tornado sirens went off but true to the Western Forum I went outside not to a closet! That was the tornado that hit Bowie. I have a friend in Bowie I’ll contact today. Appointment this morning. He and his family may have been close to it.

I was thinking a lot the same in my area over here too! This is just a big old booming, roaring storm. Its been a low, loud and steady rolling roar at times. Its intriguing. Very cool. I'm so glad you're getting the rainfall. I know you've needed it.