SilverFallsAndrew

My last snow pile melted this morning. Here it was at 5am this morning. RIP snow pile 2019.

GFS cooler and wetter next week. 12z ensembles were quite a bit cooler.

Saturday could be mostly dry and mild down here.

Be interesting to see how much I ended up with today. Looks like a little upslope shower activity developing, but southerly flow like this is typically going to yield pretty uniform precip rates across the region.

I pretty much just stick to the GFS. I end up being much happier that way.

We had solid snow cover through the 19th and there was still quite a bit around for a few days after so that undoubtedly kept temps down a bit during the warm spell.

We had a 35/17 day on the 4th and a 66/42 day on the 19th for our coldest and warmest days of the month.

Just tallied my March stats. Overall a slightly cooler than average month and one of the driest on record up here. A VERY cold first half of the month followed by a very warm 2nd half of the month. The first 16 days had sub-freezing lows, but there was only 1 sub-freezing low the rest of the month. Average Max: 50.1 Average Min: 30.9 Mean: 40.5 (-1.6) Precip: 2.84" (-6.25) Snow: 10.9"

Amazing to see PDX hasn't received measurable rain yet. Salem is at about 1/2" over the past 24 hours now. 1.09" in Eugene over the past 30 hours.

November 2016 February 2019 Most surreal moments of my life right there...

Pretty awesome we managed to beat the odds!

Much of next week looks fairly dry with some troughing late week.

There is a nice simple little campground up at Marion Forks. Even during the height of summer it is rarely full. It is a nice base camp for day hikes and fishing.

You know he's going to rub it in! I liked Tim's pics, North Bend is gorgeous. If I made like 350K a year maybe I could afford to live there. The LNF is basically my backyard, enjoyed the pics. It will be at its peak beauty in May and June. The North Fork flowing high and clear after a late spring rain under a drippy rainforest canopy is one of my favorite childhood memories.

Sunday looks very wet.

We are coming off of back to back below average months in a multi-year nino. There is about a 0% chance April temps are below average.

The nourishing rain of the Lord falling this morning. Warm and wet. A perfect recipe for a ripe green up.

Ended up with 0.19" of rain yesterday. About 0.2" so far today. Not a bad start to April. It would be nice to have normal rainfall the next 2-3 months. Doesn't need to be a washout.

Really coming down.

GFS is showing basically average precip through the first half of the month.

This is such a pointless topic.

Live look at the cottonwood outside my office window. Incredible how much it has leafed out!

There was essentially no winter here in 2014-15.

18z looking pretty wet over the next week and pretty troughy, though not super wet beyond that.

The cottonwoods leafed out in February back in 2015. Cottonwoods leafing out is not really a weather topic though. Perhaps a separate thread would suffice, especially since some find such posts especially triggering.