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Garden Master
Yet another early January morning without freezing temperatures.
I feel like we went through the Spring Thaw! On TV are pictures of the downtown streets of a nearby city. There is no snow. At the start of last week, there was "officially" a couple inches of snow on the ground. Then, 8 more inches of snow fell. That's a major snow storm in this semi-arid part of the world.
Mild Temperatures warmed a little more and the wind came up with 30mph+ wind gusts. A 1/3rd inch of rain sprinkled down over many hours. By the time the snow plow made it to my road, the 10" that had fallen on it had gone well beyond rutted and the plow's effect was of no consequence to anyone except the tree squirrel. He was again digging into the stored nuts and carry them back to his tree that afternoon.
Our mountain snow pack is just fine at the moment. Over 70 miles of interstate 90 were closed overnight because of the snow in the Cascades, between here and Seattle. Meanwhile, lower elevations had that little bit of rain. More rain is almost here and likely will wash away some of our mountain snow. It may turn into just a little of the white stuff brightening our landscape down here by the weekend. Kinda hope so - so little sunlight at this time of year.
How is your weather attracting attention?
Steve
I feel like we went through the Spring Thaw! On TV are pictures of the downtown streets of a nearby city. There is no snow. At the start of last week, there was "officially" a couple inches of snow on the ground. Then, 8 more inches of snow fell. That's a major snow storm in this semi-arid part of the world.
Mild Temperatures warmed a little more and the wind came up with 30mph+ wind gusts. A 1/3rd inch of rain sprinkled down over many hours. By the time the snow plow made it to my road, the 10" that had fallen on it had gone well beyond rutted and the plow's effect was of no consequence to anyone except the tree squirrel. He was again digging into the stored nuts and carry them back to his tree that afternoon.
Our mountain snow pack is just fine at the moment. Over 70 miles of interstate 90 were closed overnight because of the snow in the Cascades, between here and Seattle. Meanwhile, lower elevations had that little bit of rain. More rain is almost here and likely will wash away some of our mountain snow. It may turn into just a little of the white stuff brightening our landscape down here by the weekend. Kinda hope so - so little sunlight at this time of year.
How is your weather attracting attention?
Steve
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Ditto with changes to the local NWS website. However, the weather departments of local TV stations seem to be trending in the opposite direction, offering more & better access to weather & climate data - and even their own apps & alerts. One of the local Green Bay stations has now become my go-to weather source.
