Johnson Creek which flows into the Willamette through East PDX Metro is forecasted to get to flood level out here on Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s a small creek but it gets big in an hurry whenever we get heavy rain events.

Based off what? One -PDO phase that was just colder all around, in a colder climate? Look up summer 1983. Or 1993. Or 1969. The recent summer warming has obviously been completely different than anything before, but there was never a strong tie to ENSO/PDO.

I miss the azaleas, magnolias, etc. Here we have piles of snow on the ground until late May lol.

Nothing open in Oregon yet. It's hard to say yet how bad the ski season will be. 05-06 started sooooooo bad, I remember going up to Schweitzer and it being nearly 60 degrees, with dirt visible everywhere, on Christmas. But then it got better in January and the season turned out quite excellent. 14-15 was epically bad, and then recently 23-24 was terrible overall.

I love it. The Spring is such an awesome season.