iFred

I was hoping that the ground wouldn't have a hard freeze, kind of a set back for some of my ambitious gardening plans by a couple weeks. Thankfully this looks like the last of the hard freezes for the season.

Nice sunny morning so far, but bottomed down to 26º.

Just as I smugly predicted a while ago, this non-event delivered nothing. Bottomed out at 35º overnight in Everett.

Look man, if you don't like a Mediterranean climate and are not looking forward to the chaparral covering the foothills and hillsides covered in Ponderosa, Montezuma, Juniper, and Pinon, then you just don't like weather. If people want snow, they can move to it. I'll be with Tim and 2/3rds of the Canadian forum, sipping Mai Tai's on the shores of Lake Sammamish as we enjoy our new climate.

You were the forum's 5th anniversary gift. Now you need to rope someone in to continue the tradition of quality posters.

Don’t know why everyone is so worked up over some cold rain but ignoring the 60s and 70s showing up later in the run. The later looks good for some southerly flow by end of month too. I’m thinking I can get sunflowers started in a couple weeks and get the lime tree outside too. Going to try some avocado and figs this year too, so I need , no, we need this cold to end soon.

That span on 410 between Bonney Lake to Buckley can be the difference between 80mph gusts and no snow to heavy fog and flurries. Bonney Lake and Prairie Ridge can also get some kind of weird Rainier turbulence too, I have no idea what the proper name for it is but it happened once while growing up there, Autumn of 2006 I think. Bonney Lake got some 60 to 70mph winds all afternoon while Buckley and Sumner were calm and quiet. A house down the road from my home had a tree go through it and we had the local news out discussing the "freak windstorm". If it wasn't for that event, the Hanukkah Eve windstorm may have done some real damage.

Hopefully not. Need our areas to dry out and warm up for planting.

I agree with you, someone needs to get rid of the admin of this forum. Do you still have his address so we can send him a strongly worded letter? Maybe we can get a lawyer involved.

Looks warm. Don't know why anyone is getting worked up over snow when the sun angles will be too high.

Well I’m sure there is plenty of real estate in your head they can live at rent free.

It was in off topic but then kept bubbling up over and over. Thankfully our teams suck and the activity is pretty limited. Maybe next season I’ll go full Mao and bring a little Cultural Revolution to the posting standards.

I merged his account with Jesse’s, that’s why he gets referred in the third person.

I don’t know, those OLM conversations leave me at the edge of my seat.

REVOLUTION NOW! FROM THE PALOUSE TO THE SEA, CASCADIA SHALL BE FREE! LET THE STREETS RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR SLAVERS AS WE WORKERS UNITE TO END THE INJUSTICE BROUGHT ON BY REACTIONARIES, COLONIZERS, CAPITALISTS, AND RACISTS! TO THE WALL WITH THEM ALL! Also a nice morning here on stolen Duwamish land, with temperatures in the upper 30s and birds chirping in the distance.

As long as we dont get below 28º or are back above freezing in 12 hours, the ground should hopefully still be good for planting and prepping.

Shorter wave lengths lead to a more turbulent polar jet, leading to a delay in sub arctic sea ice, which allows lows to build a little stronger, which then allow for warmer air to go a bit further north, leading to a weaker jet, allowing for the polar vortex more opportunities to be dislodged when one of these areas of pressure meander north, which means that dislodged PV jumps the tracks, allowing for the first cracks into the upper end of the troposphere, which then allows for a flood of warmer air, and bam, a PV split. Then the fight to homeostasis occurs as the air cools again, at a quicker clip later in the season as the surface is perfect for radiative cooling. This is my layman understanding of it. Now if you will excuse me, the NOAA MPs are pounding loudly at my door. If I am not seen again, tell my wife and son that I loved them as much as I loved sub 500mb heights pooling over the Puget Sound.

Learned how to get both the ICON and GFS initialization points working in the Graphcast. Hoping to have a demo to share by the fall. Some pretty cool high res stuff for our side of the Cascades.

I’ll share when we meet up in 2048.

Will be doing the late winter prep for the finished half of mine. Kind of excited to have a patch of kid friendly grass adjacent to a larger native plant garden.

You can do it the Emirati way and get it in a large pot, keep it in a greenhouse and actively growing in the winter and roll it out in the summer. You’ll get something beautiful and not the pathetic excuses for a Cretaceous evergreen that I see around the Northwest.

I experimented with drainage rock on top of dense sand and built a basin with it before filling over topsoil. Water retention was a drastic improvement late summer and it seems none of the tubers or grass roots took on rot or mold. I’ll probably still need to drip in some spots, but a change in the drainage was night and day.

Being serious, real cereal right now. Being in my mid 30s with a house, a kid, and a wife who would rather live in the worst area of Seattle than the best neighborhood in Minneapolis, I came to realize that I love our weird climate as much as I love my family. Sure, I wished it snowed more and we experienced more summer thunderstorms, but climate change is making quick work of that and my wife is finally on board with a cabin in the Cascades or even in Alaska for us to winter at. What Tim predicted a decade ago came true over the past couple years, I enjoy warm and sunny days now too. I like getting some yard work done, some gardening, or working on restoring a local wetland. I also enjoy dark and damp days to get that cozy feeling while I work on some code or dive into a good book. I guess I’m old now. This summer is jam packed with projects that I want to front load; expanding my garden into my lawn, redoing the drainage so I can pool water for longer over the summer, plant a sunflower forest for the hell of it, spin up some algae tubes to test carbon capture, get solar roof tiles installed, and much more. I need dependable warm and dry Pacific Northwest days to get that done, and the earlier the better.

Sounds like an early start to the warm and dry season to me. Kind of excited to get all of the spring work done by mid March, opens the rest of the season to some experimental gardening.