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April 2024 Observations and Discussion
With the latest rainfall we have received, we are now 109% above average on YTD precip, currently standing at 5.2 inches. We are already approaching our normal rainfall for April - currently at 2.36 with the average being 3 inches. Most models show us getting another inch or so of precip over the next 10 days so we should end up above normal for April as well. Assuming that pans out, this will be our first above normal precip month since January. On the temperature side, we are running at almost +7 on the month. This will be the ninth month in a row of above normal temperatures as our last below normal month was July of last year (-0.4). The closest we have had to a below normal month in that time span was January which came in at +0.3. Otherwise, we have been running anywhere between +2.3 to +13.4 for each month since last summer. And if it wasn't for last July's barely below normal departure, you'd have to go all the way back to March of 2023 to find a solidly below normal month (-7.5). In other words, we have been on quite the warm stretch for a while now. -
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April 2024 Weather in the PNW
Had a low of 34 and a little frost on the roof once again. -
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April 2024 Weather in the PNW
I very respectful to these sorts of gates! After all attack dogs may reside on the other side Too funny Front Ranger 34* currently and we had a low of 33* this morning in Federal Way -
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April 2024 Weather in the PNW
Better than nothing, as long as these 0.2 storms don’t turn into 0.02 as they have been lately. -
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Polite Politics
Yeah I'm going to Charleston as well. Pretty much the only options are Alaska and Delta, and Delta used to be my airline before we started flying to Montana a lot. Delta did have a couple of options on the A321 when I looked a month or so ago, but that's never a guarantee. Planes have mechanical issues all the time and get shuffled around, so even if I booked on a Delta Airbus flight, a Boeing could be sitting there waiting for me at the gate. I think my favorite MX issue was a Horizon E175 that had computer issues when it sat overnight in freezing weather (the flight was in December). The solution was to do a full reboot of the aircraft: shut everything down, disconnect the batteries (which is just a button push on an airplane), and unplug from ground power. Kinda weird to be sitting on a dark plan at 5am on the KBLI tarmac. It was so quiet you could hear a mouse fart. It worked but we were very late and I just made my connecting flight to SNA.
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