Wild Storm Packs Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain

What a crazy storm that was this past weekend! This one packed some punch with gale-force winds and occasional monsoon-like downpours. I was watching some college football with my son and we heard a crash. Upon looking outside I realized that a 40 foot section of the fence between my yard and my neighbor had blown over. The strong wind snapped several of the 4x4 posts clean in half!  

On Sunday I was working in my office upstairs and heard what sounded like a jetliner landing on my roof. I listened for a while then looked out the window to see rain coming down at a rate easily 4 inches an hour. I fumbled around with my camera phone and manged to get a recording of the tail end of this impressive cloudburst that included some pea sized hail.

My Facebook post read something like, "Apparently, summer is over." Yes, apparently it is. Soak it up my friends, Autumn is here and she is blowing a gale. Soak it up.

Big Scary Storm Headed our Way!

We have our first big storm of the season rolling in as we speak. This one is packing high winds that will really be felt along the coast. It is also tapping into some tropical moisture and that means we will get a good hard soaking.

The National Weather Service has a weather statement out on this. Be prepared for local street flooding as the drains are all clogged up fresh fallen leaves. My new rain gauge is acting up :( I have to go manual for a while :|

Batten down the hatches this could be a wet and wild ride!

Cold and snowy...maybe.

The Dangerously Majestic, Mount St. Helens 2-5-2014

Today has been a gloriously beautiful day... if you are looking out the window of your warm car or office. The fantastic yellow orb is blazing away across a deep blue sky. It could be 70 degrees out there. Until you open the door. Temps are hovering in the mid 20s around the city with a very stiff wind coming out of the gorge. Wind chills this afternoon are teasing the 0 degrees Fahrenheit mark.

The NWS updated it's forecast today taking out the bitter cold temps and replacing them with a slightly warmer and snowier scenario beginning tomorrow.

How much snow? Well, it could be a little or it could be kind of allot. The second storm coming in on Saturday will have copious amounts of moisture but it will also have warmer air associated with it. The warm air will erode the cold air at the surface which provides for a transition from all snow to sleet, then ice and finally rain. How quickly that transition happens will have a huge impact on how much wintry precipitation we get. 

Hold on to your hats... this is gonna be a fun ride. Get out and enjoy this cold sunshine before the white fluffy stuff comes. Soak it up my friends, soak it up.

Wild Storm Pummels the 'Couv'

What a ride yesterday! A storm rolled in packing big wind and a brief deluge that would make Noah nervous. The streets are littered with tree branches and other natural debris. This one was packing quite a wallop and the rain was falling horizontal for a good portion of the day. I got over an inch of rain and most of it came in a one hour period of atmospheric rage late in the afternoon. Today it seems we have a little less anger from mother nature but the NWS still has a wind advisory up for the region today. Be cautious and enjoy our misfit behavior in the skies for the next couple of days. Soak it up my friends, soak it up.