Eugene-5SW

Just squeaked out 1.01" on the day to go with 1.03" yesterday for rare consecutive 1"+ days. I've never seen that in May before, and could find only 2 instances in the EUG historical record (looks like they didn't make it to an inch today). Up to 32.5" on the water year (Oct. 1 to date), which is close to normal and a big improvement on last year's ~26" at this point.

Perfect time of year. Pleasant temps and still some green on the hills.

Cool clouds at Dry Falls State Park on Thursday:

1.55" here. Drought anxiety quelled at least until the next perma-ridge. Sorry for the folks up north who are getting skunked on this one.

Google tells me the whole complex is called White River Falls, but the lowest portion of it is called Celestial Falls. I should probably have used White River Falls as the caption.

Day 1 of road trip. Perfect time of year with pleasant weather and green hills! Sahalie Falls, Celestial Falls, Deschutes River at Columbia River, Riverfront Trail in beautiful Richland, WA. Ran into some slushy snow over Santiam Pass but no issues.

Santiam Pass looks snowy enough for tomorrow morning that I moved everything around and delayed my 3-day Central WA road trip by a day. Stops include the Hanford Manhattan B reactor tour, Dry Falls, Grand Coulee Dam, Ginkgo Petrified Forest. Anything important I should add?

I have as much drought anxiety as anyone, but this story was a bit over the top even for me: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2024/04/25/oregon-flash-drought-wildfire-season/73454692007/

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.