no rains yesterday or last night @digitS' ?
I was out in the yard with the trimmer about noon, yesterday. It is an hour job now that there are extra garden beds. The skies darkened while I was busy but it was the forecast of higher winds that kept me focused on the task.
Finishing the last of it, I thought I felt a drop of rain. Wrapping things up, there was 1 or 2 more. By the time I got to the house, a total of 5 raindrops had fallen on my head. I counted them!
In the house, and at the living room window about 15 minutes later, I could see that the asphalt on the road was wet. That's about it. The weather service show 2 times when there was a "T," for trace.
Wind gusts over 45mph and blowing dust became the WS main focus. They reported a wildfire down I-90 to the west with lane closures for fire equipment and a state highway closed to the south – 1500 acres burned, tv news says. Unfortunately, the most serious blowing dust problem and that wildfire seemed to be happening at the same location. There's a 200 acre
plus fire burning near the ID/WA/Canada/US border that is in the forest. I hope that didn't get anymore out of hand.
Local air quality shot right past Unhealthy for Some to Unhealthy (for all). But, it is back to Good this morning with some fire containment and less wind. Still, breezy and supposed to be more so this afternoon but that might take us out of the windstorms.
Steve
