The photo above of the young flowering pear tree was snapped about 24 hours ago. What a difference a few hours makes! Heavy rain and damaging winds struck our area during the night and will continue to blow throughout today and tonight. We're contending with snow in the mountains nearby and our temperatures are going to be struggling to get out of the mid-40s for the next few days and near freezing at night. All this now, after a very mild Winter.
Typical Spring weather in the Pacific Northwest! We don't have tornadoes, we don't have large hail, and we rarely have thunderstorms. Our Marine climate produces normally moderate year round weather [read bland, gentle, dull, heavy cloud cover, not too extreme] so any hint of weather activity raises our blood pressure a bit. The screen shot from Weather.com of this morning's weather shows fairly strong rain in the lowlands and foothills and a large area of light snowfall in the Cascades. Click here to enlarge.Your own area might be experiencing heavy Spring rains, tornadoes, or higher than normal temperatures. You probably have your favorite online weather source, but if you haven't checked out any but your local outlets, take a look at these great sites: Weather.com, AccuWeather, National Weather Service, and Weather Underground. Each one provides great information for your area with maps, trends, and statistics. They are always tweaking their designs and features, so if it's been a while since you explored these sites, check them out. Hopefully you will be able to utilize them for your Spring activities. Hubby and I consult at least one major site and a local site every day for all our gardening, travel plans and outdoor activities.
Do you have a favorite weather site? If so, why is it your favorite? Please share your thoughts with us in the comment section. We appreciate your insights!
Which brings me to the Policy Change we have had to implement. I have been receiving a lot of spam comments on older posts and I do not wish to have them cluttering up the blog. I have changed the comments to "Moderated" to catch them before being posted. I am sorry to all my regular posters for being forced to do this. Your comments are important to me. Please don't feel this extra step is set up to block you. It is only being done to eliminate the spam. I thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Thank you for visiting! And be careful out there!
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