Wet and Wild April
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. -Song of Solomon II, v. 11 &12
NOWCAST - Several of those April showers were pretty heavy Tuesday and Wednesday accompanied with scattered hail and thunder. A few rainbows were seen and also funnel clouds. One was reported near Battle Ground/Venersborg area on Tuesday. This is the result of very cold air aloft. Plenty of fresh snow on Silver Star today. Things will settle down a bit Thursday with still a few showers about and Friday may be dry. Then chance of showers over the weekend. Things will stay rather cool to about normal for this time of the year.
OUTCAST - Thirty pounds chunks of falling ice and 156-mph winds were the work hazards of Mount Washington weather observers who toughed out Monday's storm at the summit. Read more
The past says abrupt climate change in our future . . . read more
It is all in the grapes . . .read more
Heavy Weather atop Mt. Washington . . . read more
Tillamook - Land of sea breeze and Tillamook cheese . . . and funnel clouds! This picture (courtesy of Tillamook Library) was taken Tuesday from HWY 101 in Tillamook indicating the cold air aloft. We call these cold core funnel clouds. Had it touched the ground it would have been a tornado or over the ocean, a water spout.Beginning of the End? Read more
Yeah, just blame the United States for the woes of global warming, why not? . . . read and weep here
-- posted by Pat Timm @ 6:32 PM,
