Groundhog

It sure is a tragedy. I get to play road hockey with my kids, and they can decorate the townhouse complex roadway with sidewalk chalk with their neighbourhood friends. And we plan on a hike with them Sunday afternoon, It’s horrible. Best it be cold and wet so they can get back in the house.

In April 2000 in southern BC, we had snow to the valley floor of the Okanagan valley on April 14. Some regions saw a skiff, some had ~4”. Days prior was t-shirt weather. Arctic boundary slid about 100 miles south of the forecast. It was a novelty, but it was good to resume the sweet smells of spring after that surprise event.

Well, here at 49.0594N and 122.3045W even with the time changes, sunrise peaks at 5:03am in June and sets by 4:16pm in early December. You get used to it. I really don’t care what’s chosen as the new standard time.

Nah, a 3-2 lead produces HISTORIC comebacks. I just get a VIBE that a 3-2 lead going into the 3rd that the leading team will lose resulting in a win burger for the other team. If the Euro op is somewhat correct: warm & dry followed by cool & dry. Pleasant March variability.

Yes, it would. My bad. It’s still in the Senate. It was a similar bill that passed in 2022 before the House didn’t consider it. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/582

I think there’s shot at it this time. It was either 2 or years ago that there was a bipartisan bill from the Senate to the House. Put Pelosi couldn’t walk & chew gum at the same time and blatantly refused to take it up in the House. A similar bipartisan bill from the Senate to the House is apparently in committee in the House. Here in Canada the federal & provincial governments are doing the most Canadian thing: waiting for the Americans to act.

Reminds me of a sweet little ditty from Seals & Croft circa ‘72.

It sure as accurate. Our kids were stoked at the snow when they went to bed. They were expecting a blizzard like on Jan 17. I attempted to temper expectations. Didn’t work. The 4-year-old was angry and looked out a second window hoping for a different result this morning, our 5-year-old got misty-eyed at the melting snow, and our 7-year-old was too focused on earning $ for a robot purchase and had clearly moved on from the snow.

Thanks to the rippin’ outflow here in the Fraser Valley—it’s calm now— it’s so dry that forecasted rain didn’t materialize. Took my lovely young ladies for a hike.

It’s because it’s bantered about as though it’s a definite conclusion. And then there’s the subsequent letdown/meltdown when an anomaly long range inevitably moderates. No problem in discussion such outliers. But discussed with healthy restraint, and a healthy moderation of expectations.

If some want to treat a 240hr map a lock, fine. Just expect the legitimate retort that that’s 240 freakin’ hours. Even ensemble support that far ahead for below normal temps needs trepidation.

It is a special place. Went to a tractor show a couple times with my dad. It does have a rural/ Midwest culture to it. Lynden especially has an Anywhere, USA aesthetic and culture to it. It’s a culture I have an affinity to. And now that our three kids have passports, we’ll be making more trips across the line.

Truckee is lookin’ great this am.

Don’t know if it was reported here already, Abbotsford, BC spiked to 18.2C/64.76F late last night. 18.2C is a common reading at 10pm…in July & August. Big, juicy 60s burger for sure.

Agreed re: whatever takes your breath away, When I was 10, my maternal grandparents took us grandchildren on a five-week tour of 11 states. Went back to Utah a year later for a couple weeks. 21 years later, went back there for our honeymoon in 2011. I’m smitten by that high desert. A few of the many pics I took from Bryce Canyon on our honeymoon in May 2011.

This is a situation where geography makes a big difference. The February 2017 event Abby Jr was referring to was from the morning of Friday, Feb 3 -evening of Feb 4. It was a 36hr event with temps nominally below freezing. We got more snow Sunday, the 5th, then more snow per the posted model output. But most of the snow was Friday-Saturday, and namely the Fraser Valley & Whatcom County. That first shot of snow was what was memorable up here. Here’s pics I took that Sunday morning after that 36hr snowfall and a couple hours before another 4” fell.

If a few days of seasonably cool floats your boat, great! Otherwise, it looks favourable for mountain snow and cold rain in the lowlands in early February. That’s potentially followed by more torching. I don’t see how that helps the snowpack overall if that’s the case. P.S. good to see rainfall totals marginally decrease from the forecasted pineapple vomit early next week. VI still gets clobbered, however.

72 hours after the blizzard comes the thaw. Sad, but it’s brighter with a snowpack despite the thaw.

The pressure gradient is still a bit tight as the outflow is still rippin’ here in Mission, BC. Warm air has mixed in, however. It’s just above freezing with some zr overnight and this am. That beautiful 12-14” will soon be a sloppy mess.

Nope. 14.5 inches. That’s 36.8cm.

Thanks. My body is telling me I enjoyed it too much after shovelling it for a couple hours. Big thaw starts in about 48 hours. It’s good to see Old Man Winter give a frosty middle finger to El Niño.

I measured 14.5” here in Mission, BC in a wind-sheltered area. It fell in a 12hr timeframe. Current temp: 26F

Mission, BC

No official measurement yet as it’s still coming down. It’s over a foot by my guess. I’ll do that once it stops. Kids and I were out in it for a couple hours.

Blowing n’ drifting snow.