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  1. SilverFallsAndrew
    Good thing about living at 1600' is that it is the Himalayans do not grow well up here. There are a few patches here and there, but they are pretty easy to control.
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    We use a wood burning insert in our fireplace, which has a blower. Heats the whole house pretty well, especially since I have now replaced all the windows too. We went through a tremendous amount of wood last February. Back in 2016-17 our daughter hadn't been born yet, so my wife worked days as do I. Now we both work opposite schedules so we do not have to use childcare, but it means someone is always home running the stove. Last I checked Oak and maple were running about 225-250 a cord here and fir 175-225. My in laws recently retired and spend a lot of time doing home improvement projects now for their kids, they took down 4-5 trees on my sister in laws property, which is where all our wood came from.
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    Cooler nights though. #summersover
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    It happens, if for some reason they are standing in a newly formed beaver pond or something along those lines.
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    Yep, I was able to collect about 6 cords this year without paying a dime. I usually use about 2-3 cords a winter, so we are ready for the 1949-50 redux.
  6. SilverFallsAndrew
    I have an 80 foot spruce that died during the blowtorch summer of 2017, still need to take it down.
  7. SilverFallsAndrew
    Nice to see things so green out there. If we don't get soaking rains before mid-October the vegetation goes dormant with with everything brown.
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    Dreary day.
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    Dry arctic blast.
  10. SilverFallsAndrew
    Progression really looking a lot like 2002 and 2012 at this point.
  11. SilverFallsAndrew
    FWIW this would break the record for earliest accumulating snowfall in the Bend, OR area by about 2 weeks...
  12. SilverFallsAndrew
    1996/97 sucked south of Tacoma. But yes cold in this time frame is often a good sign. And Phil's mention of 2002 and 2012 is kind of irrelevant. Those cold snaps were in late October. The fall of 2002 was very dry through October, and fall 2012 was dry through about the 12th of October.
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    I remember in 1993 Oregon led Cal 30-3 at halftime and lost... What is amazing about this Cougar collapse is UCLA for 3 1/2 games was completely lifeless... Kind of a crappy day for ranked Pac-12 teams. Half of them lost this weekend.
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    Departures through yesterday in the Willamette Valley. EUG +1.7 PDX +1.5 SLE +1.0 Looking at the models we should end up around average and possibly slightly below if things work out right.
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    A little cloudier today than I had expected.
  16. SilverFallsAndrew
    Really nice afternoon. Currently partly sunny and 64. Tomorrow trending a little wetter down here. Wouldn't be surprised if we had our first frost next weekend, which would be about average historically speaking here, but would be the earliest in the 9 autumns I have been up here by about 2 weeks.
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    I think Silverton did best on the 10th. I think they got about 3" that day, and only an inch or so on 1/16 as they were a bit south for that event....
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    Everything.
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    12z ensembles were the coldest yet.
  20. SilverFallsAndrew
    There was a pretty widespread snow event in January 2007... I was living in Oklahoma, but I know my Dad in Silverton and brother in Eugene both got a few inches, I am sure Hillsboro did too...
  21. SilverFallsAndrew
    Phil, you keep referencing 2002, but so far this fall is playing out completely different than that one did...
  22. SilverFallsAndrew
    Looking like a decent weekend. Not much rain on Sunday.
  23. SilverFallsAndrew
    My snow made it to April 3rd I believe. Continuous snow cover lasted until March 20th.
  24. SilverFallsAndrew
    All this snow talk is making me happy and hopeful.
  25. SilverFallsAndrew
    All of the snow was at least 1/2", 16 days were 1"+, 7 days 3"+, 2 days 6"+. Some of it was extremely wet snow, one day we had 6.6" with 1.94" of precip. If this pattern had occurred in mid-winter and temps had been 1-2 degrees colder we would have had better ratios.
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