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Just for that, there is now a cell in the gulag with your name on it.

I think I had a 7/16 day last January. And a foot of snow on the trailing edge of that same cold snap.

Thunderstorm!

@iFred thinks I’m a Trotskyist.

Anything north of the Chuckanut Mountains rules.

And why shouldn’t the spoiled teen do it? He knows his parents are total pushovers.

And it’s here. Heavy rain.

Looks like it’s about to get interesting IMBY.

Fun fact: you don’t need eclipse glasses during totality.

Stopping is usually the most important thing, and those trucks have nothing special in stopping ability. Every car has four-wheel stop.

Getting some heavy showers with small hail in the last half hour. Clearly, that is the best sort of early spring weather, and anyone who argues otherwise is demonstrably incorrect.

The Euro maps were a lot torchier last time. I am not expecting TTT Easter weekend.

Easter weekend looks nice! And maybe an 80-burger for the Hanford next week.

It will truly be a blessing when he stops doing that.

Definitely rainier further south. Just checked the gauge and standing at 0.30" for the day. It’s been steady light rain since daybreak, though.

The official forecast here had been for an all-day rainfest, but Environment Canada backed away from that yesterday and started forecasting showery weather. So of course the all-day rain materializes.

Light rain all day. Currently 48.9˚F.

No TTT? Throw it out! Seriously, though, that chart shows conditions that are basically climo.

The closest lightning strike I experienced involved the snapping sound of sparks from induced charges in room I was in, simultaneous with a blinding flash of light. Then a deafening crash of thunder the tiniest of split seconds later. Target was a power pole about 50 feet away.

Drizzle and 47.1˚F.

Clouds held the temperature to a mild (for the date) 43.2˚F overnight.

38.8/63.0˚F for the day IMBY.

I agree the bark is not a good match, but perhaps something happened to injure and scar it. The flowers look exactly like Yoshino cherry to me.

Those are Yoshino cherries. Ours are still a day or three from that stage. The Magnolia kobus is now almost in full bloom. Enough flowers are now open that it is perfuming the courtyard.

Dunno exactly how I would rank snowfalls, but the storm that dropped a foot here last January has to be somewhere in the top 10 list: A nice surprise: wasn’t expecting something like it in an El Niño winter. Also a nice surprise because it overperformed both my own expectations (I knew the official forecasts were being stingy) but even my own more generous forecast amounts (which got pooh-poohed as wishcasting on the Canadian forum). Made it three winters in a row featuring a double-digit snowstorm (10" or better). Highest snowfall rate I have seen on the West Coast: 6 cm in 30 minutes.