Getting some pscz drizzle here, some of the only precip in the region outside of fog drip on the immediate coast and some transient shower activity over the north cascades
2 Summer's ago was really nice. There were probably 10-12 good storm days of building/towering clouds. I could look at the horizon and see constant lightning. But that has become much more rare recently. This Summer for example, there were no "chasing worthy" storms! I like to get the storm towering, against the blue sky, with lightning underneath. I would get 1000 pictures a year back when I was in school in the early 2000s. For the last 10 years, much, much more rare. And I remember deep hazy atmosphere's as a kid. The storms that would happen would be powerful, whole color would be purple or very very dark, almost black. Now they are just these gray clouds with all these wind bursts and hail.. "powerful lines". I see it as a difference in the earth system.