Your Weather, 2025

[digitS']

We will be competing with you tomorrow on that temperature, @Marie2020 . The Weather Service says that it may be 80°f (27°C).

I'm surprised that @Dahlia is saying that it has been unusually cool and will now have low 60's. Okay, the low 60's would have been fine but we have had an average of 2+ degrees f above normal through the month of April. So, a little above average. At the same time, @Branching Out has been talking about never-ending rain ... we have had just a little above 25% of our normal April rain . Different parts of the Pacific NW.

I will be running sprinklers today, @flowerbug . You can think of me hauling them and the hoses around while you remain secure from the storms, indoors. Hope that complex roof you have keeps everything dry.

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

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I will be running sprinklers today, @flowerbug . You can think of me hauling them and the hoses around while you remain secure from the storms, indoors. Hope that complex roof you have keeps everything dry.

the complex roof seems to not be leaking, but i haven't gotten up to look around the past hour or so... i don't hear any drips and Mom is not swearing so i'll leave it at that.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

supposed to be 80 here today too. But then back into the high 60's.

 

[digitS']

With Mount Hood and Mount Saint Helens within view, it's difficult to know which side of the Cascade Crest you would be on, there where the mighty Columbia bursts through on it's way to the Pacific.

Are you some distance from the Battleground east or west, @Rhodie Ranch ?

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

hoping these clouds/bits of rain coming at us will fade out as they hit the valley... they usually will if they're not very strong.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I'm in Brush Prairie WA, a small town on the top edge of Vancouver. Battle Ground is my go to small town. We can see Oregon from our home, as it faces west and a split of OR goes up along side of WA. We have about 150 degree view of that. We cannot see Hood as its to the SE of us, or Helens, as there are hills blocking us. But go down to the roads, and either one can be seen depending upon where you are. I've been to St Helens years ago, but after the eruption. I've never been to Hood.

 

[digitS']

It's raining !

@Rhodie Ranch , you are just west of a rather confusing area, as the Columbia River breaks through the Cascade Range.

Up the Columbia from there, watersheds run east from the mountains into the Columbia. Further downstream on the northside, they run south into the river. As the river trends north closer to your neck of the woods, the watersheds run west into the river. Locals probably have a good idea of where tributary headwaters are and but those of us just looking at a map better be using a Geological Survey map showing lines of elevation (contours).

Nothing simple about the crestline of the Cascades and the volcanoes make it especially confusing. And so it goes, right through Oregon north to south. Then, the Cascades become rather messed up along about Mt Shasta bouncing off to the Sierra Nevada ... @Rhodie Ranch , you are something of a child of those mountains .

Steve