Dave

Those are around as well, but I'm talking about these guys.

I'm pretty sure TWL still has some snow piles in his yard from Feb 2019. He'll be fine. I suppose I could put a bag of stink bugs in the freezer to tide me over if the south valley gets screwed. FWIW, I'm in his boat this year. I think we all get the goods at least once this season, but we are at least 5 weeks away from that.

Partly cloudy out with sun breaks. Only a light stink bug flurry at the moment. No accumulation so far.

That sucks. Hang in there brother. Hopefully, you'll get some more rain and clouds soon and perhaps a super exciting max at PDX under 50. That would be bliss.

Slightly OT, but we do have some posters from Whatcom county. The first confirmed asian giant hornet nest in the United States has been located there. https://katu.com/news/nation-world/first-ever-giant-murder-hornet-nest-in-us-found-in-washington

Getting a few sprinkles here. Brown marmorated stink bugs are trying to get in. I hate those bastids.

This warm air hurts our chances of seeing frost tonight.

30 degrees. Lots and lots of frost.

44 degrees currently. It does seem a bit brisk. I'm pretty sure our first frost will be here in a few hours.

I don't necessary agree or disagree, but this should obviously not be in this forum.

Thanks, Meaty.

Where's my dowñvote?

I will cherish each and every nice day (sunny & dry) throughout the rest of Oct and early Nov if there's anything left. This is a La Nina. We might not see such conditions for the next 5+ months. The cold and damp will be here before we know it. Even mountain snow will almost certainly melt out this early in the year. Have some patience. I'll be aboard the cold train along with everyone else.

Today was a chamber of commerce day in Eugene. Just spectacular. 73 currently.

They would probably thrive there. Florence and Newport have a decent amount of healthy palms. Brookings and Gold Beach have some very impressive specimens. I'm okay with them there in the banana belt of Oregon.

I'd be more than happy to see them disappear forever. We'll let the coast have a few. They deserve to be spared by living their life out in semi miserable mild weather all the tiime.

Those look much healthier than the palm trees around Eugene. Lots of them here look semi sickly. I guess sub zero temps will clear out some of the riffraff.

Some sort of model rider might work. Either that or maybe an actual weenie with some animated snow.

It's 63 in here. I'm happy with 65, but getting out of the shower at 63 is a titt nipply.

I caved. For the first time since April, my heat has been turned on.

Seems like they've been mostly back loaded recently. Lots of cool, wet conditions March though May, but just a bit too warm to deliver the goods to the lowlands. Massive snowpacks in the mountains though. Hopefully, it'll be different this season.

Either that or you're gonna have to learn to blur in photoshop, or generic photoshop. I demand blur.

With all the wind talk these last couple of days, I'll share my windiest moment. This was at Cape Blanco 15-20 years ago. I randomly was staying in one of the park's cabins to go steelhead fishing the next day. We knew the forecast was uncertain and potentially stormy, but boy did it deliver the goods. Easy 80+ sustained winds. Gusts were actually kind of rare, the wind was just constant. No rain either. You could do really cool things like lean back into the wind like it was a seat, or lean forward at around a 45 degree angle. No debris, no danger, just fun. The pickup truck we arrived in was doing some frightening things, but we took it in stride. I did check the local news the next day and it had been one of the windiest days in years down there. I just got lucky.

Yep. Eugene did too. I was out of state at the time, so I basically enabled it to occur. The dolt shield was down for 30 days and some amazing happened. https://activenorcal.com/redding-receives-its-biggest-snowstorm-in-over-50-years/

I've been heading outdoors much more lately, and I agree that I will try to get out regardless of the conditions. Muddy trails suck though, but are pretty much inevitable for the next several months. Snowy trails are pure bliss.