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Originally Posted by anikin
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
930 AM PST TUE NOV 20 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS EVENING.
* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS... SEATTLE...TACOMA...EVERETT...
OLYMPIA...CENTRALIA...BREMERTON...AND BELLEVUE.
* TIMING...GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE
PASSAGE OF A VIGOROUS FRONT. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO
OCCUR BETWEEN 1 PM AND 5 PM PST.
* WIND...INCREASING FROM THE SOUTH AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45
MPH.
* IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN SNAP SMALL TREE BRANCHES...
TOPPLE SMALL OR SHALLOW ROOTED TREES...AND CAUSE LOCAL POWER
OUTAGES.
We just now lost power in the building where I'm working due to severe wind gusts. The building was shaking. There is torrential rain falling outside. And it's damned dark out there...
:(
Scotty! Beam me to sunny Nanaimo!!
Ken
Went out into the wet wild woods today. Between squalls. Took a few piccys with the Crown Graphic. Middle of the day and the shadow areas didn't register on my spot meter, the bright spots were 3. Looooong exposures on HP5.
My usual November consolation - picking edible mushrooms in those wet wild woods - is a bust this year. September and October were too hot and dry. The chanterelles are all hiding.
Yep, the weather turned ***********, put your own word in here, if it's not rain it wind, if it's not one of these it's both. Oh joy. Remember those comments not long ago about how long will the hot spell last? Until November.
It was mixed sun and cloud and light rain in Point Roberts Washington this afternoon. Back in BC, there was a beautiful rainbow to the east (at about 3:00 p.m.)
Bright, sunny, and very very windy this afternoon. I think I'll skip raking until April.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
435 PM PST MON DEC 3 2012
...HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS AND ABOVE NORMAL
RAINFALL OVER THE LAST TWO TO 3 WEEKS WILL LEAD TO INCREASE
RISK OF LANDSLIDES IN WESTERN WASHINGTON...
RAINFALL OF 2 TO 5 INCHES IN THE LOWLANDS OVER THE PAST WEEK HAS
INCREASED SOIL MOISTURE TO HIGH LEVELS ACROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON.
HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND
INTO TOMORROW. THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN WILL PUT EXTRA PRESSURE ON
SOIL INSTABILITY...
:(
And so it goes. Only eight more months until August...
Ken
Oh lord!! LOL :laugh: probably a Nikonos is a better investment
Just invest heavily in GoreTex!Quote:
Originally Posted by MFstooges
Could be worse. Out on the Olympic Peninsula the rain gauges are calibrated not in inches, but in feet. The massive Lake Quinault Lodge rain gauge located in the Quinault Rainforest averages 15-feet (4.6-meters) each year.
As a side note, a biologist I knew once told me that because of our never-ending rain a temperate rainforest, like the western edges of the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia further to the north, has a higher aggregate total biomass per cubic meter than even a tropical rainforest like that in the Amazon Basin.
Because of this if you've ever done any true wilderness backpacking here you learn real quick that it's almost impossible to wander off-trail very far. Often even for only a few feet. We never had to worry too much about the Boy Scout kids getting lost on overnight hikes. Just too impenetrable. Only one way in and one way back out.
Having once worked as a field geologist, it fell to me to teach the boys some rudimentary land navigation skills using a magnetic compass. Pretty useless skill set, though, when all one can do is follow the trail forward and backward...
Ken