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Took advantage of a weekday off to get a nice Columbia Gorge sampler in yesterday, with a focus on the Little White Salmon area. Big Cedars County Park, Spirit Falls and hidden wildflower spot near Home Valley

we grind single origin sustainable beans from Guatemala that are roasted by a local roaster. we then french press. life is too short to drink shiitty coffee

That's why they're installing kiosks in most of them. The days of the happy-go-lucky McDonald's cash register worker are almost over

But even in god-forsaken CA, you can still get a $1.50 hot dog and soda at Costco!

Actually you didn’t. Looks like nicknames for Richard are censored here.

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Long range GFS suggests the upcoming whet pattern may be in and out…

In n Out is great. Imagine Dick's drive in, but everywhere across the SW instead of just the Seattle area. I had my first burger from them at the central Hollywood location on a road trip just out of high school. It's impressively good for a fast food joint.

I recently discovered an amazing Hawaiian place here in Denver. I will be poorer for it. But it's healthier than any of these burger joints!

Kind of works out perfectly. You don't have to miss out on any beautiful weather here, while I get to enjoy the late season cold rain. It also ensures the grass will stay green deeper into the Spring and summer here, which while that may not be so difficult in North Bend, down in Seattle I'm already seeing brown spots in the most exposed parts of my lawn. Okay! I keep hearing this over and over! My roommate and I were just talking about it the other night. Is it really that good??

I am all for rainy days and sunny days interspersed. Spring climo!

To paraphrase a certain Gopher State native from Januaries past: "60 degrees is never cruel!"

We are now in the midst of a Phil heavy drizzle special!! Got instantly soaked walking to my truck just now!

Speaking personally, I know I'm just that much more likely to do a 50 piece McNugget and large Peanut Butter Crunch McFlurry combo when I don't have a laser-eyed teenager there at the register to judge me.

This is really the only MacDonald's I ever crave.

Their fries used to be straight up crack. I still have to scratch that itch every once in a while, but more often than not, its I end up with a bag of french fry flavored salt.

In a lot of places, fast food prices have inflated more than any other type of food - mainly because the cost of labor has skyrocketed.

My son just asked me about the weather this weekend so I ran the ECMWF surface maps because there are usually breaks during stormy patterns in Seattle. What a mess. Very little sun for maybe a week. Clouds at multiple levels for many days... damp and really chilly daytime temps. Sun and showers every day during spring troughing is one thing. This is going to be something worse. Timing of our trip couldn't have been any better.

I'd argue that you and MAGA are the ones hell bent on going down with the ship. And yeah, I do think the polls showing Trump solidly winning are wrong. I'm old enough to remember when polls indicated a large red wave was coming in the 2022 midterms and it was nothing more than a small ripple. Who's to say we aren't seeing a similar phantom wave this go around?

I can't imagine being north of 40 and still eating fast food regularly. Unless you have the most amazing metabolism or have time to workout 6 hours a day it seems like the perfect pipeline to obesity. Whenever I make the mistake of grabbing a McChicken or something because I'm in the hurry I always feel like garbage for the next few hours. Like eating poison.

0z models all bullish on rainfall totals for just about everyone. WPC forecast

110%

I'll have to fix that when I get home!

Yep. Can't control or change cold maxes and dark/dreary days during the peak daylight months if that is what nature wants to do. Just take it as it comes.

Check out May/June 1971. Seven record low maxes at SEA. And a couple of 59s in early July for good measure. What a time!

I was reading some franchise owners report on this and their labor cost hasn't changed but order sizes and "premium" food ordered has increased after adding kiosks. MORE DERAILMENT SORRY OFFICER J-DOG

Plenty of mid level clouds streaming in from the WNW over here. Has gotten noticeably darker in the last hour.

We break down during our annual road trip to MN and will stop at McDonalds a couple times. They actually have really good coffee. We never go to McDonalds when when we are home.

Looking so good

TikTok has a year to sell or get banned. By then, the election will be in the rearview mirror. Not to mention you think your average American has a short attention span? Just look at the 20-somethings... They'll be moved on to the next manufactured crisis within a few months at most.

Biden is disliked by many, Trump is absolutely hated by more.

In less than a week, the tree outside my home office fully leafed out. Last week they were all so tiny and bunched up.

Healthy diet, moderate portions, and moderate exercise. Being disciplined is hard. I fail every single day.

But what I really came here to mention is you can feel a change in the air outside this morning. It is a cloudy and mild morning, but the positive vibes of nature are quite apparent. Beneficial and life giving rains are on the way and nature is rejoicing.

Smack Dab in the grow zone regions of the Heartland of our Great Nation...perfect!

It's looking like the wetter pattern that will close out April will carry into the first week of May along the I-35 corridor. I'm ready to get the pool ready and the CPC favors above average temps to open May.

You know who makes a surprisingly good milkshake? Shari's.

In n out is just another fast food place, I don't get the hype. Although I will say, the shakes are REALLY good. I remember hearing about when they opened that one in Keizer oregon a few years back, people waited in line for over 6 hours on the opening day.... just for a cheeseburger that tastes okay.... they could've spent a fraction of that time cooking themselves a gourmet cheeseburger at home, and it would've costed them the same amount. Humans are weird

McDonald’s coffee is okay. It’s fairly strong for something you buy at a fast food place. I cannot drink Dutch Bros, it just takes like hot water to me.

Yes... even into June. Quite unpleasant.

Record cold maxes are in the mid 40s this time of year for SEA...

This is all predictable as you point out. It's not going to be banned. Money > everything.

I haven’t had McDonalds in a decade…However I do still crave a quarter pounder now and again but I always refrain when driving past. Also it’s getting quite expensive, we stopped at Taco Time after the kids soccer practice to grab dinner and it was $50! Good lord! Another reason why we rarely eat out while on the go anymore.

Have you tried their pieshakes?

The official H/L yesterday was 62/47 there was 0.05” of rainfall at the airport. It was yet another windy day with the average wind speed of 14.7 MPH and the highest gust of 36MPH out of the SW. For today the average H/L is 62/41. The record high of 86 was set in 1915 and the record low of 25 was set in 2015. The most rainfall of 1.46” fell in 1957 the most snowfall of 2.4” fell in 1980 the most snow of the ground is 1” in 2005 and 1980. There were a couple rounds of thunderstorms last night. They did not produce much rainfall as the official amount was 0.05” and here in MBY I only recorded 0.03”. I work for the Whitecaps and there was a lot more rain at the ballpark. The storms had a lot of lightning with them. It was the most lightning around game time in a long time. The Whitecaps did win the game 6 to 2. The overnight low here in MBY was 36 at the current time it is cloudy and 37.

THEY’RE COMING FOR YOU CASCADIA! https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/23/in-n-out-proposes-second-clark-county-location-in-east-vancouver/

I think their 2" on August 24th 1992 is absoluetly f****** absurd. At least in June there is just enough residual wintertime cold left over at the poles to drop snow levels down to 5k feet should it be displaced south, and enough of a poleward thermal gradient still in tact to spawn strong-ish cutoff lows around the meridian line. Mid-late August is a joke of a time to get a snowstorm, even at their somewhat high elevation. They pretty much combined the strongest weather system possible at that time of year with the coldest air possible... Neither factors being very impressive nonetheless. But enough is enough. The only month I doubt they could pull off a snowstorm at all would be during July, and even then I bet the first week holds some out-there potential in the right setup. July 15-August 15 is off the table though. I think....