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LowerGarfield

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  1. You oceanic people don't realize how great your climate is. Oceanic is my preferred climate.
  2. Can't answer for Western WA but they are pretty common in the foothills of the Blues where I live. My son is obsessed with turkeys. No idea where it came from.
  3. Beautiful day at Hells Gate SP. About 60F and mostly sunny skies. Its quiet today compared to the hoards of people who visit in Summer.
  4. We planned to do the Dallas area and booked our hotel three years ago when one hotel (already sold out at that time) knew there was going to be an eclipse. Our hotel at the time had an airport shuttle but at some point it was dropped. My son's spring break was then not matching. Then last year the hotel unaffiliated with our hotel chain of choice so we decided to cancel. Oddly my parents in CA had been inspired by our own plans so they made their own to visit Texas during the eclipse. Prices were high for them at their preferred hotel but they are going. A trainer at my job volunteered that she is going to Texas for the eclipse. Another couple my parents know are taking their rv to South Texas.
  5. It was 22, which made for a less severe fire season in far Eastern WA.
  6. 37F here this morning. Not much to write about here.
  7. Blues were doing a lot worse last month. Glad to see my local mountains get there if ever so slowly.
  8. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=796108349219199&set=a.462602912569746 (pretty cool snow photo) Not NW, but I had no idea Bodie State Park (a minning ghost town in CA) is staffed in the winter when the long dirt road is snow covered and closed. Rangers staff it to avoid vandalism. It frequently has summer temps inthe 70s or 80s but temps drop rapidly at night. It has over 300 days of freezing temps and is often the coldest daily low in CA. It's over 8k in elevation on plateau, east of the Sierras near Mono Lake. Per wikipedia look at that range of temps. Insane. Is there any place in the NW that is similar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie,_California#Climate
  9. That's what causes the wildfires in my part of SE WA. We get more convective events than the west side does. We have an early season which has the highest risk of hail damage or severe weather around May. Then in July and August we frequently get dry lightning which simmers for days or weeks before exploding with the high winds we get coming off the Blues.
  10. Yup. I prefer Standard but we are too far north and I am too far east to have permanent standard time. Sunrises before 4am are a no thank you. That said, sunrises at 830 or 9am in some parts of WA in Dec with permanent DST are also horrible. We need the changing of clocks here.
  11. Looks like it will be shelved until the next session. Standard time does make more sense but it wouldn't have been wise to leave Clark Co and border counties on a different time.
  12. 100 ft starts making a difference. For example, I took another look at my elevation, which is actually higher than I thought. About a 15 min walk from here, the elevation is 1850 ft (and it's deceptively flat so I thought mine was the same. It is posted on a sign at an old train depot. According to USGS, my elevation is actually about 1890 ft. My father-in-law's is at about 1835ft on the lower side of town. So there's not much difference here in 60 ft, but 150 ft is a very noticible. There's an unincorperated place 5 mins away on the mostly flat road but because they are 150 ft higher than my location, they will often have more snow on the ground and perhaps on the road too.
  13. and Tiger's house. Although other places in Eugene got snow as did Medford and Ashland to the south.
  14. How much did they get? Did they get snow when you had 0? Does that ever happen? Edit: I misread your post about the models. How much do you have?
  15. haha. Glad I went outside though. Under an inch snowfalls can be deceptive. Someone here mentioned eyeball tests adding 2 inches of snow.I feel like the smaller ones can trick you because we look at grass/ground level so it looks like less than the actual amount. Surprisingly it took a good 3 mins or so to wipe the car to get the it road safe.
  16. Had 0.30 overnight. Enough that I needed to wipe the car.
  17. Chance of snow went down for me tomorrow. Tomorrow is my first day at work since December 15th after 11 weeks of paid leave. Has anyone returned to the same job after a long absence due to illness, injury, or other reasons? How did you transition back to work?
  18. @Chewbacca Defense if you are a weather spotter, you get a spotter ID (some offices don't do ids) and a direct number to call the NWS if certain weather thresholds occur. For example in Spokane's CWA, we call if we get more than 2 inches below3k ft and 6(?) if above. They also love to know mix precipitation, hail if over penny(?) size, etc. Notably they don't care about lightning. The phone number is a direct line and you call saying I'm spotter x at specific location. Here is weather condition Y and how much we have. Condition is stopped/ongoing since Z time. Then you hang up with no chatter or questions.
  19. In Western WA sure. In Oregon, I'd say 2k ft. East of the Cascades in both states I'd say 2500 ft is where you can no longer complain. Maybe 2k. Anything over 3k anywhere in the west. At 3k, you can expect snow once a year even in CA. I'm at 1850ft (probably more like 1870ish) but still in a shadowed place.
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