Weather--YAY and BOO

[slowp]

We are getting some badly needed rain here. The woods have been in hootowl.

The bad thing is there is some rumbling along with the rain. The woods are quite dry so I hope we do not get any fires, except for in the area that is choked with deformed lodgepole pine and once was a productive huckleberry area. Locals have wished for a good lightning strike there for decades.

That's it.

 

[redprospector]

I feel for ya. We got just enough rain in July & August to keep them from closing the forest. That's supposed to be our monsoon season.
I swore years ago that I wouldn't complain about rain anymore. So I'll just say that I think the monsoon season got here last week, I wrote my guy's checks for 20 hours each on Friday. Forcast is the same for this week.

But we need the moisture!

Andy

 

[RandyMac]

It hasn't really dried out here, we get heavy drizzle every night. Just over the first range, it is dry, lots of fires.

 

[H 2 H]

I could use some rain

Been seating on the back deck tonight and I could hear some rumblings going on how far away no clue

Something like 49 day's since a measurable amount of rain here (Stanwood)

 

[madhatte]

If it doesn't rain here Monday, we'll have broken the all-time record for days without measurable rain in the south Puget Sound area. We broke the #2 record this last Tuesday. There were a few sprinkles a couple of weeks ago but it amounted to <0.025" (the threshold for "measurable" rain). With the huge fuel loading from this last winter's ice storm, and what we had piled up before, we're sitting on a powder-keg. It's amazing that we've had so few starts. I'm always happy to take the OT, but right now I'm thinking I'd just as soon see some rain clouds.


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[slowp]

It was a noisy and flashy night. Looks like we got more rain too. I checked the Pointy Trailer and no leaks.

 

[madhatte]

Down to the wire, now...

 

[northmanlogging]

Getting just a little mist here in g-falls, nothing to really stop a drought though. As much as I like lightning and thunder (mostly the thunder) there is an awful lot of fuel in these woods... mostly poorly maintained hemlock stands with too tight of spacing... and there at the point where the weaker trees are dying off... And we got dummies starting brush/trash and bon fires just cause they saw a few rain drops they think the burn ban is over...

 

[slowp]

Sounds like it is precipitating outside. We can sure use it. YAY!

 

[paccity]

had our 15 min's of light rain . not quite enough..

 

[Gologit]

Sounds like it is precipitating outside. We can sure use it. YAY!

Send some of that rain down here please.

 

[madhatte]

We got 0.01" of rain pretty nearly everywhere in the South Sound over last night... just enough to be measurable and therefore not quite break the record. Today, and for the next week or so, it's back to warm and dry.

 

[Joe46]

14 minutes of rain for Seattle, so it ended our 48 day dry period. I believe the record is 51 days set back in the very early 50's. And as Nate said back to dry starting tomorrow.

 

[H 2 H]

had our 15 min's of light rain . not quite enough..

We had are 15 minutes of rain also here in Stanwood earlier this morning :biggrin:

Partly cloudy here all morning today

 

[OlympicYJ]

I guess we got a decent amount Sat night. Prob a half inch lookin at Hatte's map, I'm just south of the 1.07 mark just east of Quinault. I know the old man got soaked when some bees boiled outta the excavator and he had to tear off through the field lol He waren't too happy when I called, still soaked to the waist lol

We got some marble sized hale over here in Idaho yesterday mornin and its been clouded over and blowin like crazy today.