Indian Summer Weather
Monday, October 22, 2007
This photo of Mt. St. Helen's was taken from the volcano web cam around noon on Monday
NOWCAST - Monday was a very fine day at least in Clark County. The Washington coast and some northern areas were still contending with rainfall from a slow moving warm front that hung up over northwestern Washington Sunday and Monday. The outlook calls for mostly dry weather locally but some clouds Wednesday as another front brushes us. I think most rain will remain off the coast and northward. Warm temperatures Tuesday in the 70's and back to the 50-60's the rest of the week. Enjoy!
OUTCAST - I really didn't think we were going to get a string of nice fall days this month after the stormy weather the first three weeks of the month. High pressure is building in for a taste of Indian Summer weather anyways. It may be marred by some clouds mid-week but hey, soak up all you can. The mountains are covered with a nice deep mantle of white after up[wards of two feet fell over the weekend. With freezing levels rising, a melt off is underway.
I mention in tomorrow's column about snow and ice building up in the far north. If you click on this link, you can see the progress over the last 30 days or so. You may want to bookmark this link. If the snow and ice continue to build, then it will be a good source of cold air that could plummet our way later in the season. Click Here
No peace here. Ok, I have had enough. Many readers have sent me e-mails about Al Gore and his Nobel Peace Prize award. Does it get any worse? I hope not. It seems to me that the status of this once outstanding honor has gone with the wind. Seems like politics get ingrained just about anywhere nowadays.
And speaking of going nowhere. All of these computer climate models that spell gloom and doom down the road, how can you prove anything one way or another. How does one know the climate wouldn't have gone that way or not? It is like shifting sands.
-- posted by Pat Timm @ 7:45 PM,
