Gorgeous sunset from Mt Tabor park. Lots of big, downed trees on the north and east side of the park from our ARCTIC WINDS three weeks ago. But honestly the damage wasn’t quite as bad as I feared. I guess the historic shelter took a pretty good hit but that part of the park was cordoned off.
I was intrigued so I looked up the average high and low temperatures across WA for August of 1899. Olga's average low of 45F is pretty impressive as it's about 4 degrees colder than anything we've seen in the last 50 years. The fact it's so much colder than every other location on the west side does make me wonder if there was an error with the thermometer at that time or maybe it was just incredible cold winds blowing off the straight.
The Seattle average high for the month was almost 10 d
I didn’t know you were a guy Jim! J/K
The has a weather meaning. @Phil wanted a emoji to counteract the emoji. As some of you know they call Georgia “The Peach State” because it’s known for having excellent soil to grow delicious sweet peaches. Well Georgia also has a humid subtropical climate, the same climate Phil lives in. So we can use the to signify humid weather and humidity.
Different forest types, too. Lots of lodgepole pine near Merritt. There is no such thing as a gentle, ground fire in a lodgepole pine forest. The trees grow close together, have thin bark that cannot survive fires, build up lots of leaf litter on the forest floor, and keep their lower branches. When a lodgepole pine forest catches fire, it is an all-consuming conflagration.
Most of their cones can’t even open absent fire. They only open after being toasted by one, scattering the seeds for the next generation of lodgepole pines (which germinate best in bare mineral soil, rich in ash).
FWIW I think I will be wrong about late May troughing. The EPS has slowed the MJO transit across the pacific such that dateline forcing now establishes late month (as opposed to completing late-month).
So what looked like a troughy pattern after the 25th now gets pushed back a couple weeks into June. Though it’s possible the EPS is once again over-bullish on the WPAC/dateline MJO (which has been the case thus far) MJO and it’ll end up being a speedy CCKW type wave, which would render the ridging inconsequential.
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