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
Will do. I have a lil on board credit. I'm trying to raise some more and share my story so that I can get the host, cruise director and casino pit bosses to notice me and my wife right away. I'm trying to get them to comp a cruise for my wife just in case I'm gone before the next chance we have to save up for one. Hopefully a 14-nighter next time.
Maybe this isn't the right thread to post this, but I like how the SPC has upped our storm chances this evening, but the HRRR and several other models want to split the storms north and especially south of eastern Iowa. Hopefully those models are wrong. The warm front has passed through here, but maybe there's a moisture gradient the storms might follow further south. I haven't taken time to read the NWS AFD yet. I see storms are beginning to pop in eastern Nebraska and they could easily dive se. eventually.
Yeah I was checking the monthly COCORAHS reports yesterday and noticed the Bloomfield area had even higher April rainfall totals, like up to 9"+! My sister in south central KS says they're drying up and I noticed they again missed the recent rains. They're not farmers, but already the other week she said the wheat may be toast er long.
I'm glad to hear that the COCORAHS gauge is nearly identical to the official one because I have two of those and like them. I'm guessing the COOP gauge is more accurate beings it has a larger diameter. I actually have 5 gauges out. Two other small ones always show less unless it rains a lot, like over 1" as they tend to catch up. I like my digital Davis gauge, but it's not consistent and I never fully trust digital gauges. I have a spare older Davis station/gauge and both rain guages had to be adjusted up a bit (calibrated) to match my other gauges. The new Vantage Pro2 has a redesigned gauge so the wind affects the rain less that's entering it. I don't know if the new design helps much. Davis finally came out with a touch screen console last year but it needs to be plugged in an outlet as battery backup won't last long. I'd get one if they'd make it totally wireless like what I have.
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