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I came here to say “Nobody talk about the 0z!!” Oh well, too late..

And another on the GFS loop and another post about the GFS and another about the GEM and the ICON all with the same basic point…

When Tim wants to make a point he just doesn’t let up does he?

…and it’s basically all back on the 0z. More in Lake Oswego, most of the northern cascades, and much of NW Oregon, less in NorCal, Willamette valley and around Puget Sound. Also more east of the cascades.

Starting to wonder exactly what needs to happen for Boeing Field to stop reporting smoke…

Looks like one of my weather apps is having some sort of fit.

Sitting on a plane at Sea-Tac headed out for a long weekend and just saw a huge bolt to the south. Nice!

In Burlington for the weekend and a lot of lighting this evening around Mt Baker and the surrounding Cascades. Good omen for tomorrow?

28 degree 24-hour temperature change. Impressive.

Same thing at my place in North Seattle 95 to 88 and now back to 93. I disapprove.

Has it? I wasn’t sure you’d noticed.

Could be worse folks… Btw, am I the only one who truly believed the wettest spot on earth was a few minute walk from the valley floor in North Bend?

I’ve never actually checked the records but I’ve repeatedly heard (when I lived there) that the spring of ‘88 was actually really wet and then the faucet just completely turned off and all that undergrowth that had been able to flourish dried up and died which contributed to how bad that season was…

0.02” at 7:10 this morning. Another miserable day in the books.

ROFL. Andrew: Friday looks nice. Tim: NO! It will be cold and miserable too! Stop trying to be happy!!

Misleading in that it treats rain/no rain on a day as a binary where the amount and timing of rain dramatically impacts the actual human experience of it. If I had to pick a metric to go along with total rainfall to summarize the experience, I’d go with solar radiation. You could have 10 “rainy days” with 0.25” each day with virtually full solar radiation received at the surface vs 10 “rainy days” with 0.25” each day and only 20% of potential solar radiation received (based on when it actually rains) and that will dramatically impact your “asking 100 people” answers. Whereas if you got 10 “rainy days” with 100% solar radiation va 10 “non-rainy” days with 100% solar radiation, the answers would be virtually the same.

I…never said the rain wasn’t persistent or that it hasn’t rained more or more often than normal. I would be one of the 99. But acting like just because a day records rain makes it “rainy” or miserable is …silly. Today is a perfect example of why that particular metric is misleading. Total rainfall or rainfall % of normal do just fine.

Silly in what way? I a) noted my own personal weather observations of the day and the impact had on my enjoyment of the day and b) noted how the weather records will actually record it and c) thanked you for your diligence in tracking b. I’m…sorry? How am I supposed to be using this forum if not for that?

Another rainy, dreary, miserable day in Seattle. We picked up 0.02” of rain between midnight and 2am. Sure, the morning had sun breaks, the afternoon was party cloudy and 70 degrees and now it’s almost clear. I spent the entire afternoon in a friends back yard in shorts and drinking Rosé, but alas, it will go in the record books as a rainy day. Thanks Tim for tracking this for us!

….and nary a drop in Lake Oswego. We haven’t had any reports from there in a while…

1.1” Temp range of 54.1 to 57.6 today.

Noticeable improvement in the drought monitor east of the cascades in both WA and OR this week. Cliff was just complaining the severe drought section in WA didn't match the data. Should see this trend continue next week. Also a bit better in Kayla's area.

Not only is it not even summer yet, summer isn’t even in range for the Euro or GFS. Forget June 21st, it’s called Junuary for a reason. I never expect much decent weather until July 5th. If we’re still in this same pattern the second week of August, that will be a reasonable time to have this discussion.

I would tend to agree with you on the April/May period though I was trying to not to incite a riot by saying so. That said, I was referring more to the water year/YTD in my characterization.

Now that we're actually at the end of May - PDX ended with "barely" 50.6% above average rainfall for the month and sits at 14.9% above average for the water year and 12.5% for the calendar year. Perhaps not a "huge" surplus I'll grant you but hardly the doom and gloom drought based on...other commenters here. Basically if you average the rhetoric here, you'll end up somewhere around the truth. In no way a dry period, but not crazy wet either.