Eugene-5SW

I once watched in disbelief as my sister boiled the macaroni and then dumped in the cheese packet without draining the water off first. A measly underwhelming 0.13" of rain here. Getting the smoke masks and wildfire "go" box ready for this summer.

Is he showing you a bunch of stats he cherry-picked to prove it really isn't all that hot there?

Definitely not just media hype. Took me 2.5 hours to get back to Eugene from my eclipse viewing site 60 miles away, and that was on back roads. Main roads were completely jammed.

29º crash from 78º yesterday to a midnight high of 49º today. Could have been even more dramatic if the front had arrived a bit sooner, as it didn't get above 46º during the day. Rare rain over-performance too with 0.33" in the gauge and more coming down.

It all depends on where you're putting your axis of rotation. That has not been defined. If it's the middle of the map, then we need more like a 45º clockwise rotation.

Like Phil said. Most of Arizona is on permanent standard time, and yet life goes on. The exception is the Navajo Nation, which observes the typical DST schedule.

You probably know about it already, but this site seems to work OK for me: https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/imap/ I like how configurable it is. It can show SWE by basin, or individual snow amounts by station, among much else.

34º too up here at 850' with rain only. Porch light test negative. Wonder how @Eugene Snow is doing at 975'?

A Slushy Inch!

What a difference 120 feet makes! You can see it on the ridge across from me with a sharp cutoff above which the snow is much heavier.

Nice to see that the valley folks scored! About 3/4" on the ground here with more coming down. So pretty!

I was pretty happy about it, actually.

33º with some sticking snow here

Florence the big winner for coastal snow on tonight's Euro with 30"!

1.03" on the day, 1.27" storm total, 4.51" on the month, 24.06" on the water year. Snowflakes mixed in with the heavier showers. Looks like a sunbreak is on the way. All good stuff!

34º with light rain and some flakes mixing in. About what I expected. 1.04" storm total so far a bit better than I expected!

As long as ECMWF is fixing snow maps, I wouldn't mind if they'd fix QPF amounts while they're at it. All the global models are usually too bullish on QPF for my location, but the Euro is by far the worst. It routinely shows 2x-3x the actual amount right up to the event. I know some of it is terrain bleed, but it seems like actual QPF amounts rarely verify even at favored locations.

Planning a weekend snowboarding getaway at Rockaway Beach. That 40" of snow on the Euro is a lock, right???

Flakes in the air! Wasn't expecting that today! 36º, which is the low for the day so far.

Please don't call me "bro heim." "Bro" is acceptable, if gently discouraged.

Sunny here, just down the road and up the hill from you. Should be sunny there soon, if it's not already. It was an unusually foggy winter even by Eugene standards. I'm thinking it should be done except a little ground fog on still mornings like this.

I think it's quite possible to make "real" science accessible and entertaining for the NatGeo-level crowd without sacrificing its integrity. Plenty of examples abound. For me, much of the beauty of science is in its inherent truth. Like Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." There's no excuse to be sloppy or inaccurate. I agree that once a scientific topic becomes politicized, it's all over. I wouldn't know where to go these days to have a meaningful, rational, entirely science-based discussion about climate change or vaccines, for example. Wish I did.

Thank you for this excellent clarification. I recently saw a nature documentary on PBS that took the "atmospheric river" metaphor to absurd lengths, with woozy new-agey narration saying that atmospheric and terrestrial rivers are just the same because they're both life-giving forces, or some such drivel. Really makes me cringe when they do this. I'm all in favor of bringing science to the masses, but let the science stand on its own without distortion or exaggeration for dramatic purposes.

Except it sure seems like the summer surface temps associated with a specific synoptic pattern are warmer nowadays than they were just 20 years ago, at least for interior lowlands like the Willamette Valley. It’s not hard to envision a “tipping point” scenario under which climate change has, with relative suddenness, made it harder for marine influence to moderate summer surface temps in these areas. Of course I recognize there are other factors driving our recent hot summers as well, but this one could be loading the dice against cool summers even on the increasingly rare occasions when the large-scale patterns are more amenable to them.

The widespread adoption of electronic fuel injection in the mid 1980s was the game-changer in emission controls.