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Nah. I was involved with two different forums that required some kind of donation drive or squabbling over things like adverts and memberships. The bills average ~150 a month and I can cover it without any issue, so that can rule out a lot of drama. The real reason why some of the upgrades have dragged on or why @hawkstwelve doesn't have SSH access yet is that my time seems to be feast or famine, especially with a kid, a job at FAANG Co, and a side project/startup/fever dream. I still have a kanban board with the following: - recovering deleted posts from the April 2023 forum hack - merging westernwx.info forum - cleaning up storage (unlimited storage is the largest driver of costs, thats why I don't like it when Phil uploads a 40 minutes 8k iPhone video of flurries) - setting up YVR/SEA/PDX High Res WRF and local Graphcast - write a "Looking back on 10 years" post I'll get to this sooner or later.

I also got to see that eclipse in Wyoming, on the summit of the Grand Teton, there were maybe 20-30 people up there which is by far the most I've see on thst summit, typically it's no more than 5 people. Seeing the shadow of the eclipse move towards you is an unforgettable experience, if any of yall ever have a chance to see an eclipse ontop of a mountain, do it. Here's a few pics, which does ZERO justice for the view. Solar eclipse pics are probably the thing that looks the least like it actually does in person.

Nice sunset tonight.

Down to my last six inches of glacial snowpack, and Whitefish Lake is thawing. Can't wait for blue skies + temps in the mid 50s this weekend.

Enjoy your snowstorm @Front Ranger Seems like good odds you get at least a foot?

That all sounds great as far as eventual goals. But I wouldn’t feel too rushed with them, the lack of free time is understandable. It’s just appreciated that you keep this place running period.

I've got to do a PHP and MySQL upgrade in the coming days. Forum might be up and down for a bit this weekend. One of these days I'll containerize the place and put it on top of postgres, and these instance downtimes will be a thing of the past, but I dont make enough money to do that.

Bella says it’s a nice evening.

I can already see the flurry of self proclaimed professional storm chasers readying their drones and twitter quips on why it was ok for them to do 90 in a 35.

Go Cougs!

Hi, Anyone excited for spring-like weather this weekend?

I'll be in Mazatlan. 4 minutes and 27 seconds of totality. Can't wait.

Yessir! There will be a strong east/west gradient as that map shows, so I could see anywhere from 10-20" depending on how far east the heaviest precip extends. I'll be sure to post pics.

Long range looked active for us, at least with a lot of moisture. If we're going to make smoke season a thing, it'd be nice to have some humidity and storms.

They did something similar in 2017... I believe they just hug the center of totality and follow its path until the shadow beats them. No they aren't as fast as our rotating planet or its celestial bodies, but planes do have some speed to them. I believe they can add a couple mins if they're accurate and fast enough! Personally I'd rather experience the eclipse on a warm day with the smell of grass in the air surrounded by friends and family. Paying $2500 for a solo window seat crammed in a stuffy metal tube with obnoxious AC whirring into your ear and other passengers fighting for a view while you try to angle your head to see the eclipse because you can't see the moon itself from a comfortable seating position, and who knows the myriad of other potential problems you could think of that you'd likely encounter...yeah, i'm good on the ground.

I was just a few months old when this happened. That same winter also slammed the west coast with good snows in Dec '92 through January '93. There reportedly was over 20" in Ashland with this blizzard.

Ready.

Some weather history in southern lower Michigan 1990: A spell of record warm weather continues across Lower Michigan with temperatures in the 70s. Lansing hits 74 degrees during a string of four straight days in the 70s. 1993: The Superstorm of 1993 dumps three to four feet of snow across the Appalachians and draws down record-cold arctic air across Lower Michigan. High temperatures struggle to reach the lower 20s with gusty winds making it feel even colder. 2017, a clipper brought widespread 1 to 2 inches of snow accumulation to SE Michigan. With the easterly wind off of Lake Erie, lake enhancement led to a small area of 3 to 6 inches in the Detroit Metro area. Thousands of area residents were still without power during this event due to the record March 8th wind storm a few days prior. 1990, the overnight temperature dropped to only 59 degrees in Flint, which is the record maximum low temperature for the day. This was also the second day in a string of four days (March 12-15) that record maximum low temperatures were set. Across the USA 1953, An F4 tornado cut an 18-mile path through Haskell and Knox counties in Texas. 17 people were killed, and an eight-block area of Knox City was leveled. 1990,Thunderstorms produced severe weather from northwest Texas to Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska during the day and into the night. Severe thunderstorms spawned 59 tornadoes, including twenty-six strong or violent tornadoes, and there were about two hundred reports of large hail or damaging winds. There were forty-eight tornadoes in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, and some of the tornadoes in those three states were the strongest of record for so early in the season, and for so far northwest in the United States. The most powerful tornado of the day was one that tore through the central Kansas community of Hesston. The F5 tornado killed two persons, injured sixty others, and caused 22 million dollars in damage along its 67-mile path. The tornado had a lifespan of two hours. Another tornado tracked 124 miles across southeastern Nebraska, injuring eight persons and causing more than five million dollars in damage during its three-hour lifespan.

The ECMWF spits out a 46/29 for the 22nd in Seattle.

Kind of the real deal right here. This thing is growing some legs.

The sun doesn’t “stay out longer”. And people would simply run their A/C more earlier in the day. Out here we usually have to run it 24/7 so it doesn’t make a difference anyway. Standard time is shit and should be done away with entirely. Who the hell wants a 430AM sunrise? Or a 430pm sunset in the winter? Just stupid.

Okie dokie.

That’s assuming there’s smoke to begin with. Summers with anything even approaching an active wavetrain compared to the normal stagnant 4CH dominated pattern of the last ten years are usually pretty tolerable from a smoke perspective. 2019 had a plethora of thunderstorm/offshore ULL setups around here and it was one of our quietest recent fire seasons.

Probably a good time to do it. 98% of members will be out basking in the beautiful weather, and it will force a break for the remaining 2% who do nothing but complain about nice weather, or the timing of said nice weather.

Large scale picture somewhat resembles 2010. +AMM/-PMM and descending westerly shear under waning strong niño.

I smell a forum HOA in the making.

I know I am!

GEFS trending towards a more consolidated ridge by the middle of next week over the last few runs as well.

I’d rather have Pat Sajak posting here.

Can't enjoy a natural phenomenon unless you're in a state you feel politically safe. Science.

Got pretty lucky in 2017...was with 5 friends and found a pretty isolated spot in the middle of nowhere (which is 99% of Wyoming). There were other people around, but we still had space. At the same time, having other people nearby was pretty cool because hearing everyone react to it at the same time sort of enhanced the experience.

I had been planning to go to Texas to see the eclipse, but various aspects of chaos intervened. At least I got to see the total eclipse in 2017. With friends, in a remote area, in a five-acre meadow we had all to ourselves.

I did some research into that spot since it's the obvious winner... You need at least a day pass to even enter the park, which they're probably all sold out for the day of the eclipse. Worth a look though. I figure it'll probably be shoulder to shoulder up there which would ruin the vibe for me, so I'll take my chances somewhere else. I might not even be able to see the eclipse this year, which is a drag, but I did end up seeing the 2017 eclipse in Salem, so I do have at least one under my belt to cross off this bucket list item. I also have big plans to see the one in Iceland in 2026. I was planning on visiting there eventually anyways.

Heavy precip moving in here. Temp down to 37...

Something like tomorrow night would be worst case scenario for the entire path of totality in the US.

Sunset from the weather deck!

With a La Niña transition looking more likely, I think that Phil is starting to feel that SE ridge nipping at his toes and wants to spread the misery

Just nice to have a ridge event that’s in the realm of something normal for our climate, rather than smashing record highs like we usually do.

If the coast to coast troughing pattern verifies, it HAS to end before the April 8th eclipse. Otherwise I will be very VERY unhappy.

My wife's eyes started itching in the last few days even before the warm spell starts. I can always tell when the trees are getting ready to leaf out by her allergies. The allergies go away once everything is leafed out.

We're in the Light Orange!

PV gunna try to make another long extended cool spring into May. winter may be 'over' per-se but doesn't eliminate the chance at a cool and/or wet extended spring like what was it '22? or '21. no?

That’s a mean-looking severe pattern east of the Mississippi.

Nice day... up to 50 in North Bend now. Baseline pic before warm spell... will try to post an update in one week to see the changes. Maybe a green tinge to the trees by then?

I was gonna let you know… apparently there’s some kind of tournament this month.

We had some clear and crisp days from that. Still have a good memory of walking around downtown Everett with everyone else shut in.

34 with some fog and low clouds. A bit of snow hanging on by North Falls.

My wife got 2 inches tonight, and I came.

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