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Looks like weather station will be at your door Tuesday. Just checked.

I've wanted to offer this for awhile but keep forgetting. Any forum member that needs a major vehicle repair I'll give a 25% discount off the top. I gave Jim a awesome deal on a clutch job so I wanted to extend the offer to everyone.

Once I saw the end was near, it was time for me to make my trip out to AZ. I wasn’t lying when I saw a potential pattern that could conceivably become historic and it did. I was open about it and admittedly delayed my trip. I’m glad I committed to it bc it was about a months worth of winter that I will never forget. The weather was about as ideal as one could ask for across the heartland. Clear skies, calm winds and barely any turbulence. I snapped these photos and vids along the way. Maybe some of you will notice the sharp bending of the Mississippi River and can tell me wh

Here we go....first interview for a position back east this morning. It's in Portsmouth NH which is on the Maine/NH border. It's in a completely different field (construction Project Management/Project Controller) from what I was doing (aerospace) but a good buddy of mine gave my resume to his management and said they really liked it. They called 3 days later to set up an interview (he thought it would be a few weeks before I heard). Looking around my house that I am haven't even started packing yet wondering how TF I am going to get this all packed up within a couple of weeks...

Hi Friends! Hope all is well, been a while since I got a chance to post on here because life got a little bit hectic so to speak, so a quick update from me. Shortly, after the snowstorm here couple weeks ago my 72 year old mother and I came down with covid. We don't know how we got it and my mom was also due for her vaccine couple days prior to getting sick, so it was very unfortunate. I recently just recovered (not fun!) but sadly my mother's conditions deteriorated and she was hospitalized last week. We were hoping that she would get better by now after being in the hospital but,

2 years ago today

Heavy snow falling here and 32 degrees. Was pouring rain and it just switched. Everything was white in a matter of minutes.

Another photo of Enumclaw.

A bit of the view from my new front yard, and from just down the street. I think I'll like it here.

Just dumped snow here for a couple hours... and then immediately cleared up.

Looks like that moisture did make it far enough south to give us a solid dusting overnight.

Absolutely MONSTROUS wet flakes falling currently. 0223211514.mp4

Got a kick out of this, Mailbox Peak! For those who don’t know about this, hikers journey up there and find fun surprises in the mailbox. You should then leave a fun surprise for someone else . Kinda difficult after this last storm but this guy was determined! Hope he found a nice adult beverage in the box for his efforts.

Some pics from earlier.

I honestly feel like if anyone is going to write a comprehensive book on the climate history of the PNW, I can’t think of anyone better than some of the members here.

Sunny and mild here at Gov’t Camp. Came a bit overdressed to ski and got uncomfortably hot after a tough run more than once. Quite sun angley right now as well. Amazing conditions though with two feet of powder on the ground. Heading back to the valley soon. Here’s some pics:

Pretty morning... 32-degree snow sticks to everything. It never went below 32 here all night. Up to 33 now.

34 with some wet snow falling here. Most of Vancouver island is getting snow away from the immediate coastline

Lovely in Skykomish!

Multiple 6"+ reports in the snow-starved Minot area.

I ended up with a quarter inch or a little more of hail, graupel, and snow. Just a mix now. The temp dropped to 34 which I certainly like.

Bye bye to most of this today. The past 30 days sure have been a wild ride.

Today was a 10 out of 10. The pig was basking in the sunshine all day.

You are probly the most gracious person on this board. Thank you so much!!! I'm gonna have Andrew help me put it up when he has time so as to calibrate everything properly.

Picked up at least an inch in the last hour.

Just had the best hailstorm of my life! Bigger than pea sized and turned the streets white in literally 30 seconds. I feel lucky to experience this since it was totally dry 2 miles North and South of here. VID_20210226_211917.mp4 VID_20210226_211640.mp4

Just got some lightning and thunder here!

6 years ago I hiked the trail up Rampart Ridge at Mount Rainier. I had never done so in February, and there was NO snow at the bottom (Longmire) or top. Then there is today's webcam image from Longmire. I can't even guess how many feet of snow there are on the ground... Here's a gallery from 6 years ago. https://www.tylermodemedia.com/.../Mt-Rainier.../i-rVVTCVd

I’m super excited right now, was able to get a few days off of work...going to orcas island March 1st-3rd! Checked the trail reports and there’s over 3’ of snow up at mount constitution. Looks like that trough early next week could deliver another nice round of snow while I’m up there. Super excited to get up there and see some major snow and get some epic photos. Will definitely post them here.

Gonna have to break out the Vaseline to celebrate.

Winter's response to me when I come to the forums looking for news of one last snowfall in KC: MsRQOH1 - Imgur.mp4

13 days and finally back on line with power, cable, and internet. Yesterday at 6:15pm the lights came on. We ran the good race and wifey and I still love each other. The best part was having hot showers and easier contact with what's going on around us. Thank goodness for a wood stove to heat water, a geni for making coffee and watching dvd's on the big screen. Driving around and seeing all the trees down was immense in certain areas. Just waiting for insurance to help get things fixed and replaced. Going to take a while to skim through all the posts. I'm most curious how dif

10 feet of snow at Snoqualmie Pass.

Visible flakes mixing in with current shower moving through .

National Guard came by conducting welfare checks yesterday.

Wow. Steve Pierce posted these photos from Washougal just East of Camas taken on Thursday. Looks like the drifting there was absolutely insane. Costco plowers may be good, but my money's on these! EDIT: It's Belle Center Road which runs between 600 and 900 feet elevation and is 11 miles East of Camas.

I have a lot done on it, but I haven't worked on it for a long time. I'm laid off for a while so it might be time to work on it again. My chapters on 1861-62 and January 1880 are pretty incredible. It has a bias toward the sensational as you might imagine.

I'm a few pages behind, but this reminded me that one of my winter-time chores growing up was bringing firewood to the house every evening. First thing I did every day after getting home from school was carting the wheelbarrow back and forth from behind the back shed to the garage; extra when we knew cold weather was coming. I used to love doing it when you could sense an imminent storm approaching, and feel the electricity in the air. One of the proudest moments of my childhood was when my dad trusted me to get the nightly fire started before he and my mom got home from work.

Still an outside chance that DSM loses another tenth - but as of 8:35pm the avg temp for FEB for KDSM is 15.3F. That puts FEB 2021 as the 7th coldest FEB on record. Here are the top 10. FEB 2021 was also the 34th coldest month ever recorded including Jan and Dec going back to 1878. TOP 10 Coldest FEB for KDSM 1936- 8.0F (one of DSM top 5 weather/climate stats of all time imo) 1978 - 13.3F 1979 - 13.8F 1885 - 14.4F 1905 - 14.8F 1929 - 15.2F 2021- 15.3F 1989- 15.4F 1899- 15.6F 1904- 16.7F

I went on a rather difficult, yet scenic hike yesterday morning tucked in the northeast valley. The trail, Tom’s Thumb, was 5.1 miles round trip (1,045 elevation gain) and a peak elevation of 3,868 ft. At the base, the temp was 50F but up top it was quite breezy and chilly. I’d guess in the low/mid 40’s. The skies very deep blue and clear. It was a very busy day on the trails (snow birds, vacationers) are the usual culprits this time of year. IMG_0212.MOV This is a view of Pinnacle Peak in the

It's unbelievable have this kind of radar look just 11 days after LNK was -31 degrees

Just saw the biggest lightning strike I’ve ever seen right over downtown Seattle as I was coming home. As a heavy mixed precip started to fall. Very cool experience!

Epic sunset and moonrise combo tonight.

Sending your Mom some good vibes, energy, prayers, and anything I can from a distance.

4-6" tomorrow night! Picked up a bonus 2 last night!!! Might be the last good ride of the year, but it was a fantastic one.

WOW! Just had a crazy hail cell pop up out of nowhere and slam me with very heavy nearly pea size hail. Clearly the upper atmosphere is rapidly cooling this evening behind the cold front. There was nothing on the radar and then ten minutes later it was absolutely dumping hail here. Then five minutes later it was gone. VID_20210222_171922.mp4

Thanks for the offer! I will probably take you up on it.

It’s hard to really say how deep the snow pack is here since much of it blew into drifts and in the open fields a lot of it blew away except for the hard crusty stuff.