Jesse

37 minutes ago, Tyler Mode said:

48.7 for a low so far. Of course, the marine layer which has been keeping us cooler during the day stops the overnight lows from getting too cool.  Nice and clear this morning.

We were pretty warm at night a few weeks ago without a marine layer.

The coolest nights in the summer seem to happen on the first clear morning after a few marine layer days.

Low of 52 here which is the coolest in a couple weeks. Had a 78/54 spread yesterday.

Looks like a lot more average-ish to above average weather on the way, which I guess is better than 110s.

10 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Amazing day.  SEA appears to have topped out at 71, and is already down to 66.  On top of that the dew points are the lowest they've been in quite a while.  A reasonable July overall is looking like a better bet all the time.

This post just guaranteed us a major late month heatwave.

5 hours ago, Phil said:

Guidance has gotten pretty outrageous with the +NAO during mid-July. Might be pushing records.

Is this what we’ll be blaming our next record shattering heat wave on?

12 minutes ago, 1000'NorthBend said:

This is both heartless and manages to miss the point. Some of us truly care about our native vegetation, native wildlife, our glaciers, the outdoor activities that make the PNW the PNW. You can’t just say “it is what it is” and expect people with actual attachments to our area to think that’s logical. 

Coastal glaciated mountain range, that’s as rare and epic as it comes in the contiguous US. Massive glaciated volcanos. Orca pods and salmon runs. Every time you post about this you act like things change and that’s that, which is true, but you ignore what will be lost and what will suffer. 
 

Will the western Toad pollywogs my kids found at our little lake today still be here in 30 years? Will the ferry captain still be calling out Orca sightings? Will we still hear the Pikas chirping in the rocks at Mt Rainier? 

If you say who cares, so be it. But it’s so 33 for you to combat people on this. 

 

This.

And to add insult to injury, all of the pious "embrace change" talk is in the context of years of gaslighting, acting like there isn't a problem in the first place, pretending like what is normal for here isn't, demonizing people for "hating sun" just because they know it's not healthy for our region to run precip defecits month after month, year after year. And playing a sickly sweet innocent act all the while.

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I have actually been enjoying this summer. Why not. 

It would probably surprise people here how much we have been out enjoying life too. Even while acknowledging the changes to this region and feeling sad about them. It’s possible to feel both.

4 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

November 2006 Tim was equally rational about the power of birthing person nature.

15 years ago, or even now. But of course having the climate inordinately move in your favor the last decade helps with the pseudo-zen thing I’m sure. If we’d seen cold and wet anomalies since 2013 of the same magnitude of the warm and dry and we’d have lost the Dali lama bit pretty quickly.

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Wouldn't be summer without some smoke. 

Hope your place does. N’t get evactualted again.

2 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Was just going to say. Smoke has arrived in the southern sky here.

I was thinking it looks a lot like late August or even early September driving around today. Everything is so completely dried out already. The smoke in the sky just adds to that feel. Then I remember it’s only the first week of July and we still have two more months of this sh*t.

40 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I still can't believe it hit 117 at SLE. Absolutely insane. 

Every time I think about it I feel like I am living in a waking nightmare.

3 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

Doesn't really show up in the picture too well but there are some pretty cool looking cirrus clouds overhead right now. Very wispy.

Noticed those earlier down here too. Almost look like noctilucent clouds.

22 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

I get that it's a big deal, since it's an all-time high for the state. But seems like it should be pretty straightforward. 

Was it an officially recognized station that met calibration and siting standards? If so, don't see why it wouldn't count.

Ideally it would be a station with a decently long, reliable period of record, too...so maybe that's a factor up for debate with the committee.

I’d say since it wasn’t recorded at OLM it’s probably a good idea to throw it out.

20 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Avoided the 90s again here. 

Same, 88 for the high. 

Looks like PDX just barely made it though. #10 for them.

13 minutes ago, SnowChild said:

Yes I noticed this as well. The entire NW face is melted put. Normally don’t see it like that until end of August. 

Yeah, that’s the Willis Wall. One of the only parts of Rainier that mostly melts out in the summer, mainly because of how vertical the rock face is. Once the frozen on stuff melts there is no snow or glacier underneath.

10 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Jack Fire up to 1500 acres now. 

There was a time long ago when I used to enjoy driving up the North Umpqua.

15 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I'm not sure the brand, it was given to me by a co-worker and I used it to replace my old station. It just stopped working. I thought maybe it was the batteries, but it still does not work after I changed them. I've never had a top of the line station, thinking of upgrading when I get a new one. 

Why did you make Tiger's so overexposed

Just now, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I guess I was “stupid” for going to Eastern Oregon to take in the eclipse in 2017, then. Personally I had a great time (and a campsite smack dab in the middle of the center line, at about 4700 feet elevation, above the worst of the summer heat).

We saw the eclipse in Madras that year. Very cool experience.

2 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

It's anxiety for some of us. We have no control over the atmosphere so having to pack a pre-emptive fire bag is pretty shitty.

Probably not quite as distressing as having to make some last minute reservations in Othello.

Looks like the 12z Euro is coming in a lot warmer for early next week.

Sunny and up to 70 now.

3 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Once again, you resort to this ad hominem crap instead of actually addressing the points made. Weak.

Some things aren’t really worth the energy. James Jones put things together pretty succinctly yesterday. Good on him to be willing to put the time into a lost cause, and even he knew when to step away.

Low clouds hanging tough here with a low of 57. Definitely a pleasant surprise. I still think PDX will hit 90 today though. 87-88 here.

43 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

Where is King County again?

This map shows marine stratus from the BC border to Salem and from the coast to the Cascade valleys. Is that all King County? 

You really didn’t understand the discussion yesterday did you?

84/56 day here. No 90s this month yet here or PDX, but that should change tomorrow.