Day 23 of rain with no end in sight.
40 days and 40 nights all the sewers in Seattle will back up with the end result of the city flushing itself into the bay....let er rain.

Bullwnkl.

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* THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF STRONG AND MOIST PACIFIC STORMS
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just looked outside....yup it's still raining. River down below us is at flood stage, normal round here.

Bullwnkl.

The mighty Umpqua rose and left a mess last week, so did the Coquille and Coos Rivers. It's raining now and 40 to 60 kt gusts....supposed to rain for the next 10 days. That's why I call this "Wet Dog" Oregon.
CC

South Tx. - Lows in the upper 40's / highs have been in the lower to middle 80's. To damn hot for "winter".

BP...

It was 53 degrees and sunny here in massachusetts yesterday. The forcast for the rest of the week is the same. I will take that any day regardless if its winter or not.

Today is supposed to be our first day of sunshine since November 19th. Hope I don't go blind...

Jeff

Freakishly warm here in MD. Supposed to be close to 60 most of the week then weekend drops to 40's then 30's and possible snow by Sunday. And here I sit with a new Kimber 84M Classic in 7mm-08 that I wanted to shoot this weekend and no chance to escape work early to do it while it's nice.

Allen

Too many 80s. All our tanks are dangerously low. Severe drought. Red Flag fire warnings many days. Cattle running out of hay and no green anything to eat. No leaves on trees to cut down.... I'll trade ya'll for some of the rain. 15 inches here would be what is needed to "catch up"

Jeff

Scarey warm and dry in Northwestern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Matter of fact, it's so dry the trees are chasing the dog's!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Huntr

Same report as Jeff gave from just a little futher east in Texas.

We are 10.5 inches below normal in rain. Fires everywere. People trying to find hay somewhere. There is none here. Only good thing is warm weather so the old hides don't have to eat so much.

Lots of folks out of water in the stock tanks and skinny cattle going to the sale.

Some have just turned them loose to find water and something to eat or die. Deputies getting run ragged keeping loose stock off the roads.

Along I 45 there are burned patches every mile or so where idiots throw cigs out the car windows. Our VFD burned over $600 in fuel last month just running fires.

I will never complain about mud again. Gripe about excess rain all you want, drought is worse. This is a bad one and will be hell next summer if we don't get some water in the ground. May be as bad as the '50s which I remember well.

BCR

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to send that down to TX and OK.. They could sure use it.

Balmy here today seeming it's January; gonna be 39F... Usually it's -10F during a normal winter, or colder... We even get to see the SUN today.. Yesterday was the first sunshine in about 15 days.

too stinking warm. highs in mid-60s, lows in low 50s.

Ditto. Give or take a couple of degrees either way.

Does that mean you won't be king? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Boggy, what are you guys payin for Big Rounds of Prairie hay??We have a fair amt. here around Wichita Ks.... If you guys need some connections let me know... 721

Crappy.IT needs to get colder to freeze the roads so I can finish hauling wood to the mills.

I just looked outside and the sun is shining. We haven't seen it in about three weeks.

Three days ago set record highs---70s.

Last night 2" of snow.

m

High today in the 70s with rain tonight.

Here in Portland, Oregon?

That's easy, RAIN.

We're predicted to have an additional 1.00" to 2.00" today. It rained like crazy yesterday, we had heavy rain and high wind last night, it's raining now and it's going to rain tomorrow. The ten-day forecast is....well, RAIN.

We've had, like, three-hundred percent of our normal rain amount in January 2006.

No complaints, that is why it is soooo green here. Sure beats shoveling snow and freezing your butt off. And, at least we aren't afire, like Oklahoma and Texas.

Steve

Bullwnkl

We share the same weather report, but up here we are in the Olympic Rain Shadow.

Although there is a guy up here building a strange looking boat. I stopped by the boat and had a conversation with him, real nice old gentleman, he said his name was Noah and the boat was called an ARK, whatever that means.

One of the warmest winters experienced here in interior Alaska. So little snow here in the valley that the moose are grazing in hay fields.....30+ sighted yesterday morning [10am dawn] on way to Post Ofice.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I LOVE THE RAIN!!!!

It is still raining day after day! SWEET!!! It really helps keep the number of bicyclists with poor road manners off the road and helps convince many recent CA-refugees to move back to the sunnier states.


I also ove to splash in the puddles and love walking in the rain. No need to wear sunscreen just to get the paper in the morning!

I don't live too far from Bullwnkl so weather's the same. Rain seems as if it'll never stop. My Labrador loves the water in my drainage ditch though the wife seems a little upset after he comes in the house. Ward

70's...with no rain in sight, and it hasnt rained in 70 days.

Now THERE'S an optimist.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Central Florida is as you would expect.........sunny, warm, comfortable.

" The best part of the hunt is not the harvest but in the experience."

Tomahawk, going rate is fifty bucks a bale if you can find it. This is for decent hay. Fortunately if spring comes the middle of March I will be all right. Lots of guys say they will run out by March 1. Especially if we have a bad February.

While I don't need the hay yet there are a lot looking. Heard of some being trucked in from Nebraska.

If you don't mind PM me your contacts and I will pass them around to some of the boys that are hurting.

Thanks

BCR

Boggy, I'll see what I can find out re: hay 'round here. The friggin' grass is turnin' green again, and most of the cows are still field grazing with hay and grain being supplements only thus far.

Thanks VA but I'm thinking freight would eat you alive trying to bring hay in from the east. You got to cross the mountains some where and up and down eats diesel. That and there being no straight shot to Texas and Oklahoma as there is from futher up in the plains.
About as far east as I have heard of is La and Mississippi but the storms got that hay this year.

BCR

Rail?

You Texas boys have it rough.......running out of hay and losing your quarterback all at once..........

You can get hay here without too much problem......year old bales are going from $10-$15 for the 750+# round bales, and good barn stored current year crop is around $30 or so....or at least the last time I looked for some. We had a good summer and spring last year...drought didn't hit us till August and most folks had a couple of cuttings already put up.

We don't have much water, although my home well isn't dry, some others around are.......

We've been seeing lots of fires around as well...only been out to two myself, but the VFD is keeping busy.......

Bought in bulk, the round bales are running between $17 to $20, depending on what you want. Prices are actually high here this year because no one made a second cut this year, and we normally get 2 to 3 GOOD cuts. Folks still had/have plenty left over from 2003...

Hasn't snowed in about 3 weeks, and temps have been in the high 20's and low 30's. At least it hasn't warmed up enough to melt what little snow we have. Been sunny the past few days, and they are getting longer!

We've had Seattle weather here in Michigan for two of the last three weeks thereabouts. Cold, dark and drizzly throughout the day. People were starting to talk about it until recently when the sun and a cold snap came through.

Regards, sse

In beautiful Waxahachie Texas temperature in the mid 30�s at night mid to upper 70�s during the days. It�s dryer than I�ve ever seen. As my brother the rancher says �no grass, no rain & no end in sight�.

Sunny with a 100% chance of wide spread liberals by evening.

We can not use round bails any more. It became illegal to make or feed a round bail on January 1st.




It seems our Governor is afraid a cow can't get a square meal out of a round bail.
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Unseasonably warm. Sucks cause I can't make the ice rink for me and the boy.






Mac

8:00 pm 48 Degrees and still raining. Skokomish river still holding at flood stage but not quite over the roads . My white dog looks like she has been mud boggin, all the way up to her sholders she is solid mud, gotta give her a shower twice a day when I bring her in, she loves running in the mud, creates her own rooster tail of mud. my convertable is leaking when the cover blew off gotta get a garage built this summer. My truck needs the windsheild taken out and a new seal it leaks like a seive. Day 23 no sunshine just rain. Need to take the quad out for some muddin. We do not get snow so mud is the next best thing to go play in. Hope you guys down south get some rain soon.

Bullwnkl.

Hard rain, forty five mile an hour winds. We are warm and dry and enjoying the sounds of the storm. This is the desert, we don�t get many storms like this.

round here it's been to warm, I love to ice fish but don't feel safe most of the Ice has either melted off or blown off.

I'm getting tired of the rain, I had to set the pipe machine up outside to thread some gas pipe today and to oil in the bucket was shot befor halfe the threading was done. A little mud slide on north bound I-5 made the morning drive to work slow today.

Jamie

"Scarey warm and dry in Northwestern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Matter of fact, it's so dry the trees are chasing the dog's!! "


Ditto's, for S.E. Arizona........No snow on the Huachuca eange, whatsoever.

GTC

Up at 0330 hrs as usual this AM..
Sitting on the back deck with a cup of coffee listening and watching the wind and rain.
The spring frogs are singing in the rhodies, the crocuses are up four inches already and the trees are budding.
False spring or an early spring??

Saw the near full moon as it was almost setting west for about ten minutes in a brief break in the fast moving rain squalls.
I don't mind the rain at all..Those of us who live here just dress properly and go do our work anyhow...24 days of wind and rain..
I do feel bad for the many homeless street folks around Portland tho..jim

I STILL LOVE THE RAIN

It's a small part of the reason I moved to Oregon.

There are some great puddles to drive through! I found that at 6-7 mph I will create a wave out infront of the truck which creates a depression in the water behind the bumper - keeping more water out of the engine compartment as I drive. It's hard to keep going that slowly though. I want to send water splashing as high as possible!

The other bonus is my car and truck both look clean all the time now. I splash thru the mud and get the truck all muddy... it only takes a couple puddles to rinse it off.

pdxkevin, On the positive note:
the forest fire danger is very low...
the drought is officially over..
running gives a nice dual stripe up the back( single stripe for bike riding)
You can now take a whitewater canoe over Willamette falls..:)jim

Temp is down to 39 not raining at the moment, sky is clear over us but dence clouds surrounding all round. the drive in to Olympia this AM was not bad lots of water on the roads and some pretty good gusts of wind moved the little car about some but not as much as it did yesterday. with my Ford Diesel. No mud slides out here on the Canal but I expect some all around us except the way to town, no place to have any.

Bullwnkl.

Dry as a bone in South Texas this year, and unseasonably warm this season. We even have a few scissortail flycatchers overwintering locally instead of hightailing it to Mexico.

Winter sparrow numbers are down (poor seed crop), winter hawk numbers are down (poor seed crop, hence few rodents). This lack of plant productivity has got to be hammering everything up the food chain.

Maybe one or two nights of light freeze back in December, not even close since then, seems like winter has decided not to come at all this year.

Birdwatcher

Rain all night and into the day. Gonna hit 50 tomorrow. Some weird chit fer sure.





Mac

High of 40 today, low in the 20's. Snow is gone from my yard, though there's still four or five inches anywhere there's shade. Ice on the lake behind the house looks awful thin. Sucks! I was looking forward to some ice fishing. On a good note the last couple of days brought the first sunshine in three weeks. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> -Shaun
P.S. Here's a pic of the backyard lakeshore this summer with yours truly. (attachment)

Bullwinkle, I'm gonna be up Hood Canal way next week for business conferences at the Alderbrook resort in Union..(I didn't pick the spot)
Any advice on places to eat and things to see? jim

What a nice day! 70 degrees and hardly any wind. Shortsleeves. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

70's, sunny, mild wind -- a typical summer day here in Melbourne, Australia.

Jim I am a mile away from Alderbrook, currently my place is a mess as i am in the process of doing some rearranging of space in the yard and in the house. But give me a PM and I'll give you my number and perhaps we can get together for a chew of the fat. things to see....well since I see them every day there is just the canal itself and if weather cooperates the Olympic mountains some local streams and what we here call a river. Today it's just lots more of the same rain and 41 degrees. What part of Oregon you from? There are a couple pretty fair resturants locally including Alderbrook....kinda pricy. My daughter works there and at the local deli, real good pizza. Nothing special otherwise. Give me a PM and we'll talk later.

Bullwnkl.

37degrees, the gods have smiled on us today, no rain in the daylight hours. Seahawks kicked a little Washington Redskins butt today even with out the services for most of the game of Shawn Alexander. Met the odds makers call pretty close Vegas said 9 points it was a 10 point win. And to top it off our local cub scout pack held it's annual Pine Wood Derby today....my entry my sons last years car won 9 races in a row against nine other cars at a time. We are Pack champions...plus it dont hurt that this is our fourth year and we have learned a bit.The high tech odds on favorite, by looking at it didn't even place.....that was a good laugh as our car is real ugly...but fast. Great day here in the Pac NW

Bullwnk.

...............Lenticular clouds, and a strong prevailing Southwesterly............15-20 MPH, doing it's best to disburse the smoke, from the annual burning, in Mexico.

Let them beat their modern drum....loud and long, the fact is they still burn the fields..stubble, this is bush league primitive soil bank management............

Not the point here, .........the good news, is that the weather guessers are calling out a 30% chance of rain , for tomorrow....That would be a real blessing.

God bless, GTC

Cold enough here in south central Pa. that I wish I had heat out in the garage.Gonna run a gas line next week so for the first time I'll have a heated shop.Heat,phone,cable TV,beer in the fridge,some Bluegrass and an easy chair..Work? Nawwwwwwww!Although I do have to return my friends' mag drill.We made a dandy work bench from 1 1/2 inch thick plate 2'X6' and a nice vise.Got to do some work on the race bike.Goin' fast is only 10 weeks away. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I'm in Northcentral Texas cold at night ,hot in the day windy ,windy ,windy and fires everyday somewhere!
kind of scarey!

Been in the 50s and 60s here for about a week, near-record highs for these parts in January. Rainy past two days, went from 57 this morning to the current 35, expected to dip into the 20s overnight. Snow squalls and gusts in the 40MPH range at the moment.

Damn shame the Pacific NW and the SW can't share some of each other's miseries with the moisture. I see AZ and parts of NM are 'sposed to get rain tomorrow though. Let's hope TX and OK are next.

Maybe yinz should had oughta started a backhoe ditch from both points, about a month ago. Mighta met in the middle of Utah by now and started to drain most of the Pacific NW into Texas? 'Course there is that problem with them little mountains in the middle though.
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Bad year for hay in many parts of PA. Early rains looked good, then we had a long dry spell during most of the summer. Hay headed-out long before it ever got very tall, then about the time folks decided to get it done, just rained enough to spoil a lot of it in the field.

Most of my cow-fondler kin wound up with about half their normal hay production this summer and fall. Virtually zero second cutting. Only relative that did fairly well, was one dairy farmer who chops much of his hay and blows it into them long plastic bags. But, he'll be buying good hay all winter for his two dozen or so pet draft horses, if he can find any.

As of last month, one cousin that no longer has any cows to feed, was getting about $3 a bale (at the barn), for his 50-60 lb square bales. Figure that'll go up as winter progresses. With the price of twine and diesel fuel, still ain't much of a profit margin.

It's not too bad in Fairbanks, Alaska. The temperature is supposed to drop to -30 or so tonight (Sat. 14th), but that's not too bad. It could be -60!

For the first time this winter my crony was afected by the sun <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />. The rain held off most of the morning but it did pour for awile when I was takeing down targets.

Jamie

Yesterday we had mid-40's and high winds bringing in change. This morning when I got up it was 10F. At least the wind dropped. Went to our gun club yesterday afternoon. Birds thrown from the low house into the wind never reached the high house. They climbed straight up like flushing pheasants then dropped straight to the ground. Mind you our club is situated on the top of a large hill and this accentuates the wind.

Near 70� here in southeast Kansas today. Pretty windy and dry. There are some burning bans on. My prairie meadow comes right up to my yard on the south and some on the west. Hope people are careful with their cigarette butts. I just got finished cutting out all the cedars that formed a border between the yard and the meadow. Those things are a torch if they catch on fire.

Our winter has been spring and fall. We have not seen -30F and maybe only seen -20F a couple times. It's awful. By now we have usually had a few weeks of -30 to -40F. Today it is about 20F and it is about what we have had for the last couple or three weeks. I hate it. Winter is supposed to be cold, not wet and sloppy.

Easier on the heating bill, though, so I take it all back. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

-30F this morning. Better go throw another piece of wood in the stove! Sure could use more snow around here though.

That definitely rules out leaving beer on the porch...

Regards, sse

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yep, still raining. Another bonus from all the rain; it cuts down on the number of bums I have to drive passed at the on ramp signals.

The Weather Here:

Wonderful picture, Elf. Thanks.

In my part of NE ND this winter has so far been a cakewalk. We actually haven't had a truly awful storm for years, but we know it could happen tomorrow or just a bit later.

When you no longer believe that the awful will happen is when you sit somewhere totally unprepared for survival.

I agree.. the weather here has been milder then usual. I'm just waiting cause I know it's gonna get nasty out one of these days. I mean heck I haven't had frozen water pipes and shower drain yet. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/help.gif" alt="" />

still raining here, I heard on the news tonight that today makes 30 strait days of rain here in Oly. 34 strait days of rain is the record here.

Jamie

It didn't rain Saturday,Monday would have been a record 29 days.Of course it raining now.

SF Bay Area, CA
On Sunday the wife and I took a trip over to the Pacific coast.
It was clear, windy and cold at 51F. The air was so sparkling clear that we could see the Farralone Islands out in the Pacific. We were in between storms. Tonight we will get another rain storm. What we fear here in CA is an earthquake while the ground is soaked with water. It makes mother earth shake like Jello. Our ground is totally saturated now. If the runoff from the storms arrives at the ocean/bay at high tide we have a flood. The rivers and creeks can handle no more water and the ocean won't accept it until low tide.
Between the storms and high tides we try to enjoy time and each other while standing in this bowl of jello between the Sierras and the Pacific.