gravitylover

Gonna stop at an organic stuff nursery on Monday and grab some soil. Time to start making food

...and there it goes... I got a bit over 3 weeks of snowpack! Blech

I wish my brain was wired differently and I did nerdy stuff like keep records, or at least informal notes, about stuff like you guys keep weather records. You'd think it would've come to me to do things like that, since I was a kid I used to like reading Thomas Jefferson and others weather accounts from back then but my lazy brain never told me to do it. The other thing that totally gets me is I didn't do more to clear the yard for better light and plant fruit trees when I moved to this property in 1996. Man I'd love to have a mixed assortment now especially considering how expensive good produce has gotten. The hindsight that comes with age is both entertaining and frustrating at the same time as the 'coulda shoulda woulda' thing gets into your head. I think they call it wisdom but I hesitate to attribute that word to me I bet that @rclab has some insight

If I hadn't just gotten an unexpected foot of fluff with less than .4 liquid I'd be even more pessimistic than I am going forward. Not even hitting 24" two winters in a row is pretty disappointing though. I wish I had a decent way around this stupid warm Pacific but since I don't this pessimism is starting to win and I don't like it. I know, there's a balance and we'll find it soon enough, my worry is that balance means I live at way too low an altitude.

I know it popped the 50 mark while I was out but my dumb ass forgot to look at the temp on the dashboard. Here on my still snow covered hill it stayed at 45. Yup, still mostly snow covered especially northerly aspects where there's still a few inches but my backyard still has 2-3" too because it's sheltered.

Wow it doesn't seem possible with how soggy everything has been but yeah, I'm at about .8 for the month and half of that is from last night's glopfest.

Well, if it's over that burst of crazy heavy snow with huge flakes last night was a reasonable way to end it. On to gardening season

32/32 and snowing hard with huge flakes. It's funny though how it's so wet it won't accumulate more than this half inch thick layer of goop and it's not really doing any good on the existing snow either. This is the biggest flakes of the year which is nice considering it may be the last.

Snowing here too.

Backyard still 100% covered but front yard torched out with the sun this week. It's been cold at night but not really. 20" for the year which is 3" behind last year's total and about the same as the total the year before if I remember right. A far cry from the previous 48+"/yr average. I think for a while up to the early 2000s my total was in the low 40s but it bumped up nicely. Now...

It was 27:1 across the street from KDXR

All of these popcorn snow showers and I barely had a few flurries I always like when a bit of fresh whiteness is added to my snowbanks after I'm done shoveling.

Wow, you're about 13" ahead of me.

That's a sting jet, right?

2 1/2" on the previously cleared slate patio and 3" on the board on snow. It stayed cold here right up until the snow wound down but when the blue patches started showing through it jumped 5° real quick. I think that this is as wintry as it's looked around here in a few years. It's kinda nice. I'm at 22.? for the season so not terrible considering we have a good month of potential left but I'm not feeling another ~26" to get to average.

You feel better now? Got a nice finishing band moving through for the last little bit, it's snowing moderately again with big fluffy flakes and will likely add another inch. Time to go out and shovel and measure after another cup of coffee I

Well that didn't last long Big fluffy flakes to almost nothing in 15 minutes. I guess I'll take my 2-3" and be happy since I didn't expect even an inch.

The non-winter that keeps on giving

Flake size really ramped up here, big fluffers floating down and accumulating nicely. Not what I expected here but I'll take it! 24/24/NE2 SN

I'm thinking this will come in cold enough that it should be able to be cleared with a leaf blower. I'm charging up a few batteries

Have fun down there. I'll be cleaning my driveway with a leaf blower

I only got a dusting but it's so nice to see an old skool clipper pass through. Maybe I can break the 20" mark for the season tonight/tomorrow ... ?

Right! I have accumulating graupel winding down now.

Nice little snow showers moving through. It's mostly graupel but it looks good in my "snow lights"

It's kinda nice seeing all this talk about a Clipper but I'll be disappointed if it's more productive on the coast than here in the northern hills.