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Thanks wx_statman for the reminder of a great winter. There's sort of a contest going on a California site over when the Tioga Pass will be cleared. Here are photos of recent conditions in Yosemite.

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Minus that sycamore, everything is still green here. Not even a hint of fall color anywhere else in the neighborhood.

 

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww243/phillywillie/Mobile%20Uploads/8DA2A7D4-4316-49E9-B124-8B4C397D6815_zps95dva42l.jpg

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A few pictures I took while on my roof today, trying to increase the height of my anemometer.

 

To highlight the futility of my wind speed issue, I'm about 60ft off the ground (three story house) and that huge tulip poplar is still towering at least 100ft above my head.

 

It's just a hopeless endeavor. :lol:

 

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww243/phillywillie/Mobile%20Uploads/8CDD04AD-8A86-4A60-8F60-EEE964AE794F_zpsab5sllsb.jpg

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View looking the other way, for a height perspective. Can see the Virginia bank of the Potomac River Valley (which includes Booze Creek) rising up in the distance, given the leaves are now falling off the trees.

 

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A few pictures I took while on my roof today, trying to increase the height of my anemometer.

 

To highlight the futility of my wind speed issue, I'm about 60ft off the ground (three story house) and that huge tulip poplar is still towering at least 100ft above my head.

 

It's just a hopeless endeavor. :lol:

 

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww243/phillywillie/Mobile%20Uploads/8CDD04AD-8A86-4A60-8F60-EEE964AE794F_zpsab5sllsb.jpg

While it would be cool to get the exact wind speed above tree level, it wouldn’t give you an accurate depiction of the wind you feel. It wouldn’t be fair to say the winds at my house were X while measuring more than 20 meters up. wouldn't be

Bend, OR

Elevation: 3550'

 

Snow History:

Nov: 1"

Dec: .5"

Jan: 1.9"

Feb: 12.7"

Mar: 1.0"

Total: 17.1"

 

2016/2017: 70"

2015/2016: 34"

Average: ~25"

 

2017/2018 Winter Temps

Lowest Min: 1F on 2/23

Lowest Max: 23F on 12/24, 2/22

Lows <32: 87

Highs <32: 13

 

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While it would be cool to get the exact wind speed above tree level, it wouldn’t give you an accurate depiction of the wind you feel. It wouldn’t be fair to say the winds at my house were X while measuring more than 20 meters up. wouldn't be

I think of it more like "the wind I would experience if the trees weren't blocking it". I'm not even talking about those treetops well up above 150ft..just regulation height for anemometers which is 10m above the ground.

 

Unfortunately, there are just too many massive trees here to get accurate wind readings at 30ft up. Some of the trees here are over 160ft tall (the tulip poplar in that picture is exactly 167ft according to laser measurement, and it lost its top back in the 1980s). So I have the anemometer up at 60ft, where it's still blocked by trees but more accurate than it would be at 30ft.

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Though in big windstorms sometimes it doesn't matter and the wind just punches right through the trees. Was strong enough last year to shake people's cars so hard that their alarms were going off.

 

Unfortunately, that event cut power to my station before I could get any good wind readings, but I'm guessing they were easily over 60mph, judging by the roof/shingle damage.

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Minus that sycamore, everything is still green here. Not even a hint of fall color anywhere else in the neighborhood.

 

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww243/phillywillie/Mobile%20Uploads/8DA2A7D4-4316-49E9-B124-8B4C397D6815_zps95dva42l.jpg

Update. Color is pretty pathetic this year, minus a few random trees.

 

The warm/dry autumn didn't help, and last weekend's cyclone ripped off a bunch of leaves that hadn't yet peaked.

 

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww243/phillywillie/Mobile%20Uploads/2F472BB8-DDDA-4A50-9A33-2BD446AF78D3_zps6jg1ip8b.jpg

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My trace of snow on 11/3/17. Earliest snow that I can remember. We had enough to cover the grass and a little on the trees at sunrise but it was melting quickly by the time I took the pic.

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Elevation 580’ Location a few miles east of I-5 on the Snohomish Co side of the Snohomish/Skagit border. I love snow/cold AND sun/warmth! 

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Journey up snowy Cougar Mountain this morning. Nice coating of snow started at about 600 feet and increased from there all the way up to the 1430 ft level.

 

Stopped briefly at Lewis Creek Park at ~850 feet and took in the views.

 

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Mercer Island, 350 ft

2021-2022: 11.6", 02/21

2020-2021: 15.6"

2019-2020: ~10"

2018-2019 winter snowfall total: 29.5"

2017-2018: 9.0", 2016-2017: 14.0"

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I love the way my western hemlock curls from the weight of snow and ice. I love it even more when it's Christmas morning!post-7873-0-56741000-1514615949_thumb.jpg

I don't know why it's sideways!

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