PNW October 2021, Pumpkin Spice Edition

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

What is different is the more common occurrence of widespread burning down there... that does not happen in Randy's area either.    Anyone can have a bad neighbor who is burn happy.   

I believe most people just don't know how to burn a brush pile.  I do it 2 times a year and when I do I get it over with. Amazing how fast and clean it burns with a leaf blower giving it oxygen.  

[GHweatherChris]

Richard Mann could predict the arrival of cold air to the west weeks out, way better than the models or anyone else on this forum.  He was generally spot on give or take a few days, you just had to read between the lines of his posts, which really wasn't that hard to do.

[TT-SEA]

Feels like Oregonians might suffer from an inferiority complex.   Even though no one up here thinks that way.   We are all just inclined to discuss what is happening in our own areas.

[Cloud]

Just now, GHweatherChris said:

Richard Mann could predict the arrival of cold air to the west weeks out, way better than the models or anyone else on this forum.  He was generally spot on give or take a few days, you just had to read between the lines if his posts, which really wasn't that hard to do.

So he is a genius. 

[MossMan]

Yeah I’m not a fan of backyard burning only because most of the backyard burners don’t know how to properly burn a pile of brush and they let it smolder for days on end. Burn fast and hot, it’s not that hard. Also when burning pick a day where the wind direction blows it back towards your house, not in the opposite direction towards your neighbors that want to enjoy some fresh air while out working in their yards. I’m not a city yuppy, have lived in a rural setting my entire life, but yeah the stench of days on end of crappy wet burning is awful. Everyone around my area has between 5 and 50 acres, plenty of space to just have a brush/yard waste pile in the woods that you occasionally push/compact down with a tractor as things naturally break down…That’s what I do. 
 

[Timmy Supercell]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Feels like Oregonians might suffer from an inferiority complex.   Even though no one up here thinks that way.   We are all inclined to discuss what is happening in our own areas.

In a couple weeks that won't apply to me.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Richard Mann could predict the arrival of cold air to the west weeks out, way better than the models or anyone else on this forum.  He was generally spot on give or take a few days, you just had to read between the lines of his posts, which really wasn't that hard to do.

I forgot about that dude!!

[MossMan]

2 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I believe most people just don't know how to burn a brush pile.  I do it 2 times a year and when I do I get it over with. Amazing how fast and clean it burns with a leaf blower giving it oxygen.  

Exactly!!! 

[Cloud]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Feels like Oregonians might suffer from an inferiority complex.   Even though no one up here thinks that way.   We are all inclined to discuss what is happening in our own areas.

I don’t understand the need for acknowledgment. Except maybe if you’re Rob, I’m sure Puget Sound weather was discussed in the WV. 

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, Cloud said:

So he is a genius. 

I think he was confusing and vague... and its easy to say he was right when it eventually got colder.   But I did not get the sense that he was some sort of clairvoyant genius.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

Yeah I’m not a fan of backyard burning only because most of the backyard burners don’t know how to properly burn a pile of brush and they let it smolder for days on end. Burn fast and hot, it’s not that hard. Also when burning pick a day where the wind direction blows it back towards your house, not in the opposite direction towards your neighbors that want to enjoy some fresh air while out working in their yards. I’m not a city yuppy, have lived in a rural setting my entire life, but yeah the stench of days on end of crappy wet burning is awful. Everyone around my area has between 5 and 50 acres, plenty of space to just have a brush/yard waste pile in the woods that you occasionally push/compact down with a tractor as things naturally break down…That’s what I do. 
 

Yeah I never have a fire that smolders like that. They are probably burning wet branches, leaves, etc... We have that sometimes after the holidays they will rip out some of the larger Christmas trees they did not cut (at a certain size they are no longer economically viable), and they ll burn the green piles. They will smolder for weeks sometimes. 

[Cloud]

2 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

In a couple weeks that won't apply to me.

Where are you moving to? You’re still gonna be hanging around right? 

[Timmy Supercell]

4 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I believe most people just don't know how to burn a brush pile.  I do it 2 times a year and when I do I get it over with. Amazing how fast and clean it burns with a leaf blower giving it oxygen.  

There was one controlled burn (near Keno I think?) some months ago that ended up becoming "uncontrolled", I'll dig up the facebook post unless it was deleted. This was a bit before smoke season fully kicked in, so people were like this is why it's so bad outside RN? 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Feels like Oregonians might suffer from an inferiority complex.   Even though no one up here thinks that way.   We are all just inclined to discuss what is happening in our own areas.

I was talking to a guy at a campground in Wyoming last week, he was there from Iowa, he asked me where exactly Oregon was. Not the first time I’ve been asked while traveling. We truly are a backwater, which ultimately I am fine with. 

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

In a couple weeks that won't apply to me.

I hope you keep posting here.   I think it will be fun to get your take on Kentucky weather.    You are going to have some serious thunderstorms and probably some blizzards.

[Cloud]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

I think he was confusing and vague... and its easy to say he was right when it eventually got colder.   But I did not get the idea that was some sort of clairvoyant genius.  

I may be a bit confused here but there was this one guy that had a knack for predicting weather… vague at times. I don’t remember who, but he could be this guy. Interesting nonetheless, it’s kinda like fortune telling, you can be extremely vague and people will buy into it.

[Timmy Supercell]

2 minutes ago, Cloud said:

Where are you moving to? You’re still gonna be hanging around right? 

Ashland, KY (BIG move!), you can find a bigger post of mine second page. 

It's not a real big city but at least it's not in the middle nowhere either. 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I was talking to a guy at a campground in Wyoming last week, he was there from Iowa, he asked me where exactly Oregon was. Not the first time I’ve been asked while traveling. We truly are a backwater, which ultimately I am fine with. 

Anyone who does not know where each state in the country is located is not the brightest bulb!

[T-Town]

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Euro maps?

[Timmy Supercell]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I hope you keep posting here.   I think it will be fun to get your take on Kentucky weather.    You are going to have some serious thunderstorms and probably some blizzards.

More variable weather for sure as well. In January last year SPC had a TOR Watch for them. 

I think K-Falls averages more snowfall than most cities in KY but they should get the odd blizzard or two.

[Cloud]

Just now, Timmy_Supercell said:

Ashland, KY (BIG move!), you can find a bigger post of mine second page. 

It's not a real big city but at least it's not in the middle nowhere either. 

I need to dig it up. Any idea when it was posted? I haven’t had the time to be around the forums lately so I missed it. Man, this is such a big move from PNW to Kentucky. I don’t think I can ever make such a move. 
 

Best wishes of course and update us on KY weather! Hopefully the cats will continue to look out the window.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

3 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

Ashland, KY (BIG move!), you can find a bigger post of mine second page. 

It's not a real big city but at least it's not in the middle nowhere either. 

It is a really nice town. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I was talking to a guy at a campground in Wyoming last week, he was there from Iowa, he asked me where exactly Oregon was. Not the first time I’ve been asked while traveling. We truly are a backwater, which ultimately I am fine with. 

Exactly. It feels to me like a lot of folks in Washington (not all of them, and not everyone on the board) don't have a concept of what it's like down here. I also feel like more Oregonians visit Washington more often than vice versa relative to population.

It's the way it feels to me. Doesn't make it factually correct (usually I'm just misguided or overly use confirmation and/or negativity bias because I've lived a very sad life).

[Joshua Lake Oswego]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Euro maps?

Still wet

 

[Timmy Supercell]

1 minute ago, Cloud said:

I need to dig it up. Any idea when it was posted? I haven’t had the time to be around the forums lately so I missed it. Man, this is such a big move from PNW to Kentucky. I don’t think I can ever make such a move. 
 

Best wishes of course and update us on KY weather! Hopefully the cats will continue to look out the window.

 

I'll continue posting on here. Maybe not every time there's thunder. That gets out of hand real fast.

I like cats but I don't happen to own any. 

BTW 

 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

8 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Euro maps?

[GHweatherChris]

16 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I think he was confusing and vague... and its easy to say he was right when it eventually got colder.   But I did not get the sense that he was some sort of clairvoyant genius.  

Not saying he was a clairvoyant genius, he was skilled and forecasted in a different way.  And he was right way more times than not, most of you back then just had a problem with him and his posting style, he was easier to understand than the younger version if him now in the forum.

[Cloud]

2 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

I'll continue posting on here. Maybe not every time there's thunder. That gets out of hand real fast.

I like cats but I don't happen to own any. 

BTW 

 

I’m actually kinda sad and excited at the same time reading that. Losing a PNWer is always sad but excited for exciting stuff ahead for you. Weather down there can be crazy!

[snow drift]

21 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Richard Mann could predict the arrival of cold air to the west weeks out, way better than the models or anyone else on this forum.  He was generally spot on give or take a few days, you just had to read between the lines of his posts, which really wasn't that hard to do.

He was amazing, but you needed the Rosetta stone to decipher the meaning.

[snow drift]

14 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

More variable weather for sure as well. In January last year SPC had a TOR Watch for them. 

I think K-Falls averages more snowfall than most cities in KY but they should get the odd blizzard or two.

You're more likely to get an extreme event back there. Weather in the PNW plays Hootie and the Blowfish to the Midwest's Metallica.

[Timmy Supercell]

3 minutes ago, snow drift said:

You're more likely to get an extreme event back there. Weather in the PNW plays Hootie and the Blowfish to the Midwest's Metallica.

I'm thinking the couple best videos on my youtube from back in 2017/2016 happen several times a year where I'm going.

[MossMan]

20 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Exactly. It feels to me like a lot of folks in Washington (not all of them, and not everyone on the board) don't have a concept of what it's like down here. I also feel like more Oregonians visit Washington more often than vice versa relative to population.

It's the way it feels to me. Doesn't make it factually correct (usually I'm just misguided or overly use confirmation and/or negativity bias because I've lived a very sad life).

It has been about 33yrs since I was last in Oregon. Have been above it at 35k feet though a few times over the last couple of years. 

[Cloud]

Kinda ominous post. This’ll be Timmy’s fair well windstorm. 
 

 

[snow drift]

1 minute ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

I'm thinking the couple best videos on my youtube from back in 2017/2016 happen several times a year where I'm going.

Tornado watches mean nothing back there. A warning is a totally different story.

[snow drift]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

It has been about 33yrs since I was last in Oregon. 

It's been 39 yrs for me. I went to the Oregon Grinder in Portland. Is that still there?

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Just now, snow drift said:

It's been 39 yrs for me. I went to the Oregon Grinder in Portland. Is that still there?

Long gone since the 90s and the organ was chopped to pieces.

[Timmy Supercell]

2 minutes ago, snow drift said:

Tornado watches mean nothing back there. A warning is a totally different story.

I think Ashland at least has sirens. I liked a local facebook page for Boyd County and they have posted about annual tests for tornado sirens.

[TT-SEA]

Sunny deck!   Our landscape trees are starting to put on a nice show.  

[Timmy Supercell]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Sunny deck!   Our landscape trees are starting to put on a nice show.