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The Krink


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Another night in the GPNW where its snowing an inch an hour in the Cascades.
I-90 shut down at North Bend on the west side and I don't know where on the east
side...but Snoqualmie Pass "Shut" for the night cuz its snowing like a bastard.
This is putting the monkey wrench to everybody. Who knows when I-90 is going
be open again Thursday. US 2 over Stevens is a mess as well with frequent closures
to do "avalanche prevention". When things get this bad US 2 usually prevents large
vehicles so the truckers stuck on I-90 will either have to wait it out or go south to Portland
and hit I-80 going east. So heavy steady snow in the mountains and heavy steady rain
in the lowlands. I'm sure we got atleast 3" in the lowlands last 2 days. And its the coldest
of rains where its 36-39 degrees and some wind chill to make it below 32. Its pouring
out right now right on the fringe of being snow.

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Krink... You can't access I-80 anywhere near Portland. The big route east is I-84 from Portland, and is also closed account of heavy snow in several passes over the Cascades tu!



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I meant I-84. Eastbound I-90 opens about 5pm Thursday with one helluva backup ready
to "try to drive" over Snoqualmie about 24hr late for destination. Westbound I-90 is supposed
to re-open about 1am Friday. The snow finally stops after 100" in a week. Still looks promising
for my yearly RT to Bham on Friday with maybe some snow on the lawn but not on the hiways.

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If the E / W interstates are shut down out West, can the railroads  keep moving?  No smart answers like the trains don't run on the interstates.

Best wishes for Christmas and the following 53 weeks.  Lot of rain in KY.  smile



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Former GN/BN/BNSF has three ways to cross the Cascades east/west or vice-versa. However cars/trucks have two. Interstate I-90, and US-2.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/christmas-eve-plans-buried-in-mountain-pass-snow/



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Well the weather Friday couldn't have been any better for my annual RT to Bellingham.
Hit some fog and a little drizzle and some snow/rain mix for a few minutes going up
Bow Hill. The snow is very evident in hills as I don't think I've ever seen them this white.
Chilly day and a even chillier night going into Boxing Day.

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Present temps in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Also known as Canuckistan Centrale) are pegged at -27 Canuck* degrees!

In other words ball-freezing cold! Forget the old, hackneyed simile...cold as a witches tit in a snowbank! Ball freezing is more apropos in this case! Everything that could freeze, is frozen! Including salt water in the bays!

Polar bears have relocated to Minnesota. That's how cold Manitoba is right now!

*-17 deg. F (Muricun)



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The USA gets its first "Polar Vortex" of the winter and it sets up shop in Mnaplis
just in time for a very important NFL playoff game. MIR doing its thing...shaking
up all previous weather patterns. My hood trapped in the light/dark blue on the
temperature map trapped between the northern jet stream to the north and the
subtropical jet stream to the south. So its really just typical January weather and
heat is required to keep your home warm. After 13" of rain in December we got
almost nada for January. Lots of days/nights driving on icy streets so far in Jan.
Frozen fog is the worst.

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I think the only way to verify the weather forecast is to take pictures of your TV
the night before. So the last 4 pictures are whats instore for my area Wednesday
afternoon/evening. Looks like a few rounds of T-Storms and some serious precipitation
for a short time. I just went through not a week ago the same dark green/yellow/orange/
red blobs passing by and it was a weather event. Very strong gust front accompanies.
I emptied out the 2" of rain from my oversized tuna can from the last 2 days and ready
to measure what I get. Wednesday's rain will push Seattle over the top for the wettest
Dec-Jan-Feb in history...and that is a long history of being wet. Lets just see how good
Walter Kelly is.



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A little derecho.... moved on through... 1.75" worth

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That's pretty scary colors there Snippy...thats some of the ruffest weather on earth right
there in that picture. My Wednesday afternoon dint match what Walter Kelly "said" it would
do. So about 8pm it started to rain and I say a "dark green" rain which is pretty wet if you
are standing out in it. So no T-storms in my hood but some did occur south of Tacoma and
the rain ended just after midnight with a quarter inch of rain in my crude oversized tuna can.
Got off pretty lucky I think. Some weather forecasters have T-storms for Thursday as well.
One thing not mentioned on the CH13 Fox 10PM weather Tuesday that we would set a new
high temp for Feb 17 at 66 degrees. Went from a low of 45 degrees to 66 degrees by 1pm.
Then after that it went down by 10 degrees in a few hours. The weather coming north on I-5
from CA.

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Well as Krink  probably knows the storms just keep coming to the west coast..

Got a couple shots today but tide was almost out again.. 

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Warm. Wet. Windy. Not gale force yet.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=pws:KORLEBAN16

Doormat slapping at the door ta get inside!

 



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It started raining about 3pm Wednesday and hasn't stopped. Lots of dark green
radar weather passing over...everybody gets wet. It was blustery in the hood for
a while...maybe 35-40mph. A raining hard all-night...night. Winds were clocked
by some reporting station on the coast of a 90mph gust so this is some serious
energy going by. Measured the oversized tuna can and 3/4th" of rain after 7-8hrs.
Be glad you don't live in Louisiana tonight.

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