& Your Weather, end of Novely?

[bobm]

This morning the weather forecasters predicted snow above 1000 ft. our town is at 400 ft. School districts to have 3 hour delays. Snow is quite rare here as we see the white stuff maybe once per year. The most snow that I have seen is 4 years here was about 3 inches that lasted a day. Today, at 9:55 AM ... OMG < OMG it actually started SNOWING here !!! HUGE FLUFFY snowflakes !

 

[digitS']

Bob, 20 Alaska Airline Seattle flights canceled. Honestly, it doesn't look like Seattle is having such a tuff day. I was surprised that the Alaska flight to Spokane was not coming in - what's the problem here? But, it's Seattle ... under 1 mile visibility, okay.

No problem here, it's a blue-sky day after a 21°f morning. The sunshine is melting the snow now and if the clouds don't hurry up and cover us, the sun will make a liar out of the person who predicted that yesterday's afternoon high will be last of the above-freezing temperatures for days.

Ah, but I see the snow clouds coming ... even if they aren't carrying many flakes.

Steve

 

[bobm]

Well, that snow storm lasted all of 15 minutes, turned to light rain and all of the snow melted. Still overcast.

 

[digitS']

We are taking things by thirds and halves.

At 1/3 of the way through December, we have 1/3 of an inch of precipitation, in the form of about 3" of snow. We are falling 1/3 short for where things should be for annual precipitation.

In November, there was 2/3 of normal precipitation. The 1 1/2" fell as rain.

The limited recent moisture follows a very dry summer but the greatest amount of October rain of any month in history! Greater than any snowy January, greater than any rainy April.

This is not the monsoon country of Arizona and New Mexico, 1,000 miles south. The geography is interesting in that part of the world, desert yet cut by water erosion, everywhere you look. Here, 1/2 of the moisture that has fallen in 2016 came in a single month's time and yet we are back to being 1/3 short. I am hopeful that we will have more winter snow to maintain soil moisture and give some relief to our higher elevation, evergreen forests.

Next week, temperatures in the single

digitS'

 

[majorcatfish]

this morning woke up to this... have not yet inspected for any damage yet, everyone was covered...