| Observation Date |
Observation Time |
Precipitation |
Snowfall |
Snowfall SWE |
Snow Depth |
Snow SWE |
Notes |
| 10/5/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.50 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, not raining now. All is still below, but the wind is whipping the tops of the cottonwoods. The conifers are quiet. |
| 10/6/2016 |
9:30 AM |
0.98 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining |
| 10/7/2016 |
8:30 AM |
1.00 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly. The stream is no longer clear, now with a brown tint, as has happened ever since the upstream logging |
| 10/8/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.28 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey but light,a band of brightness over Portland in the west |
| 10/9/2016 |
9:29 AM |
1.46 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a steady fine rain, fine enough to create the effect of mist, no visibility past the end of the yard |
| 10/10/2016 |
9:20 AM |
1.36 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky, soft white clouds, sunshine |
| 10/11/2016 |
5:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark |
| 10/12/2016 |
9:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A bright and sunny morning, an overcast afternoon. Walking rustling through leaves on the trails; the stream down from its high, running clear again. |
| 10/13/2016 |
8:50 AM |
0.77 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
steady rain when I emptied the gauge, now heavier rain. waiting for the power to go out. It had not rained much even past midnight, so all in gauge was during the early am hours |
| 10/14/2016 |
8:20 AM |
1.92 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Clouds moving briskly south to north across a pale blue sky |
| 10/15/2016 |
9:15 AM |
1.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Steady but not heavy rain. Stream is muddy and fierce. I was able to get to and pull the second temperature logger without getting swept away yesterday. Two more to go. We have several years of stream temperatures if there is ever anyone at CoCoRahs who wants to correlate precipitation, recorded air temperature, and temperature in a large, salmon spawning stream. Temperature records are kept with Burke Strobel at City of Portland Water Bureau. This stream, Gordon Creek, also is the domestic water supply for the city of Corbett, so water is removed upstream and this complicates interpreting the data. |
| 10/16/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.77 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, but not raining. The wind stayed high here. I have not checked for more tree damage today, but yesterday only found thrown branches. |
| 10/17/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.81 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not raining, wind in the treetops. Just now, at noon, thunder followed by a brief downpour. |
| 10/18/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.86 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, air is wet, but not raining. |
| 10/19/2016 |
8:45 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
pale blue sky with wispy white clouds and a three quarter moon |
| 10/20/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
late entry, from memory |
| 10/21/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.60 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A misty night, a misty morning, stream continues full. |
| 10/22/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.31 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
pale blue sky, sunshine lighting up the tops of the cottonwoods, with the last of their golden leaves trembling in the light breeze |
| 10/23/2016 |
10:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
white sky, bits of blue showing through |
| 10/24/2016 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
surprisingly, grass is barely damp. overcast and grey, no breeze, still beautiful, quiet, with golden leaves on trees, on the ground. Stream has cleared with the cessation in heavy rain, still high but down from its peak. |
| 10/25/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.27 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, subdued light |
| 10/26/2016 |
7:30 AM |
0.40 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
lightly raining |
| 10/27/2016 |
8:30 AM |
0.84 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 10/28/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunny and bright, deep blue sky with white cobblestone clouds, drifting south to north, the slightest flutter of the remaining golden leaves in the top of the cottonwoods. all this marred only by the squadron of six black helicopters flying in formation below the clouds, crossing above me. |
| 10/29/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.22 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunny, with a blue and white sky earlier, now more subdued, should have gone for a bike ride this am. |
| 10/30/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.08 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly. I don't feel wind but I hear it. A leaf thrown up comes straight down. The remaining leaves at the tops of the cottonwoods are fluttering, and the high branches of the conifers are swaying. It is always interesting how the wind often does not come down lower here, even though I am on a rise, staying high to the east, dropping to a ravine in the west. With every new clearcut, however, more wind does get through, or I guess it is more that it is more frequent for the wind to get down to the house and human level. |
| 10/31/2016 |
9:30 AM |
0.58 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining, the slightest bit of flutter in the highest leaves of the cottonwoods |
| 11/1/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.18 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky, white clouds drifting south to north, leaves in the treetops are still. Now the sky has become grey; I should have gone to the stream earlier. |
| 11/2/2016 |
8:30 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey; mist blurring the western hills |
| 11/3/2016 |
8:30 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky covered in freaky white |
| 11/4/2016 |
9:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, dry stone, blue sky clouds to the west |
| 11/8/2016 |
9:15 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, blue sky, a bit of DBOP |
| 11/9/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, bunching into clouds some places, thin enough in others to see the blue behind. Not raining now, but the heavens did cry a little during the night when they heard Trump was elected, mourning all the damage that will be done to trees and earth and air, and all the federal lands shifted to states or to private owners who manage only for profit. A sad, sad, day for America the Beautiful. |
| 11/10/2016 |
8:30 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky dusted with white |
| 11/11/2016 |
9:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey skies, no new bear tree attacks. He is probably depressed about the election as well. No more forests, short term thinking, Federal lands transferred, how can we...... |
| 11/12/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.10 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
not raining when I first went out, a light misty rain since. Mist in the canyon. treetops swaying. |
| 11/13/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.08 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
light rain, grey sky |
| 11/14/2016 |
8:00 AM |
0.63 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. clouds/mist to the ground off the end of the yard and in the canyon. the only fruit tree the bear did not destroy or strip is the persimmon tree. This morning birds flew up from their bright orange breakfast when I walked out to the gauge. Too thick and cloudy to see the supermoon last night |
| 11/15/2016 |
9:20 AM |
1.62 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey; not raining now. I never did see the supermoon, last seen in the year of my birth |
| 11/16/2016 |
9:15 AM |
0.35 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly, clouds sitting low into the canyon. Uwe ka lani. the heavens weep. An oil tycoon in charge of interior, a beverage lobbyist reorganizing the dept of agriculture, a fossil fuel magnate and climate change denier ditto for the EPA. God save this beautiful country, god save this beautiful earth. Uwe ka lani, the heavens weep. |
| 11/17/2016 |
7:40 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a clearing sky |
| 11/18/2016 |
9:15 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey and cold. I finally saw the face of the moon last night. The supermoon is gone, but the moon's facial features were so clearly etched and expressive, and she was so bright. even if not full, even if not at super, she was a beautiful sight among the treetops and passing clouds. For a science-based person, I feel her sorrow so strongly, as she looks down at what we do. The sun is more distant and disinterested; he has other planets. The moon has only us. |
| 11/19/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sun in the treetops, windy |
| 11/20/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey; not raining. Clear all the way to a view of the City of Roses, mist on the western hills behind. |
| 11/21/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.20 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 11/22/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
subdued. Yesterday became sunny and bright |
| 11/23/2016 |
9:20 AM |
1.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining. A great year for chanterelles; glad I picked some before the heavy rain. |
| 11/24/2016 |
10:30 AM |
0.19 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 11/25/2016 |
9:20 AM |
1.42 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, lots of light, not raining |
| 11/26/2016 |
8:30 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 11/27/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.63 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining, but soon begins to rain lightly. Still eating pie three meals a day, and not at all tired of it |
| 11/29/2016 |
7:30 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, not raining |
| 11/30/2016 |
9:10 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, paying here and there for a glimpse of blue, and a glimpse of a puffy white cloud lurking behind the grey, not raining |
| 12/1/2016 |
7:40 AM |
0.36 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey; not raining |
| 12/2/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist to the end of the yard, grey sky, not raining. |
| 12/3/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.38 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
immersed in mist, a cloud sitting in the yard |
| 12/4/2016 |
9:20 AM |
1.43 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining fat drops, that feel as if they are trying to freeze..... took out the little cylinder. Hope I get frost flowers again this year.
2:45pm a big thunder roll followed by fine, pinhead size ice pellets, delighting my grandnephew from Hawaii. Enough to turn the open ground white, lasted about 15 min. At 3:50, mostly melted, when a new flurry of bigger hail fell for about 10 minutes. G-N is in heaven, has before never been in ice or snow falling from the sky |
| 12/5/2016 |
8:00 AM |
0.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
snowing, not sticking yet. Hawaii grand nephew in ecstasy |
| 12/6/2016 |
8:30 AM |
0.56 |
2.0 |
M |
2.0 |
M |
Snowed much of yesterday; snow was probably about 3 inches deep by afternoon. Winds seemed to be switching from westerly to easterly per my nephew. Skies blue and white today, mostly white. Snow depth by me ranged 1.5 to 2.5 inches; my nephew got 2.0. Only one tiny power outage! |
| 12/7/2016 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
1.0 |
M |
cold and clear. Frost flowers on the trails; only the third time I have found them hear. Magic for my G-Neph on the last day of his visit. |
| 12/8/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
1.0 |
M |
just beginning to snow. much wind |
| 12/9/2016 |
8:00 AM |
0.74 |
M |
M |
2.5 |
M |
Much snow yesterday, began about 9, a fair amount fell before the freezing rain. Icy morning, grey sky, lots of beautiful ice art on the trees and shrubs |
| 12/10/2016 |
6:50 AM |
1.18 |
M |
M |
1.0 |
M |
mist. late entries due to power out. Visit to Hyla Woods, for annual salmon return gathering. Nice to have hot food. |
| 12/11/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.42 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
grey. power finally came back on after being out since Friday. |
| 12/12/2016 |
9:10 AM |
0.38 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue and white sky, enjoying electricity, water and hot food, worried about later in the week. |
| 12/13/2016 |
9:20 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a glorious bright and sunny day, etchings of frost making each blade of grass and leafy weed a work of art, cottonwoods catching the light on their top branches. Cottonwoods get so little respect, yet of all the deciduous trees around my yard, they manage to stay so lovely even with bare branches, shining light and dark patterns against the sky. Meaning to ask, should I share some of this year's frost flowers with CoCoRahs again? They are so completely tied to weather. |
| 12/14/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
grey, cold, dry. More frost flowers have appeared, in different places than before. Snow began to fall early afternoon; 2 inches by nightfall. After dark the dogs ran into my room, where they are not allowed, and pointed their noses out the sliding doors. A herd of massive elk stood in the yard, dark brown beasts against white snow, bigger than percheron, snow blowing all around them, a magical sight. They seemed to become aware of the dogs, and slowly turned and faded into the trees. The big bull stayed behind a bit, watching us. |
| 12/15/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.27 |
2.0 |
M |
2.0 |
M |
all is white, not snowing at 9, lightly snowing now. A fine and for here dry snow. The elk prints criss cross the yard, right up to but not on the patio, around the sides of the house to the back but not up to the door, going in and out of the woods on all sides. The dreaded fence for the dogs is being built; how lucky they visited me before it is done and keeps them out. snow is more like 3 inches in many places |
| 12/16/2016 |
9:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
when I opened my eyes early this morning, there were eleven elk in the yard, right up to the bedroom sliding door. I was able to take photos but only from across the room and through the window; as soon as they sensed movement inside my room, they took off. Photos are poor, but two do have the gauge in the background if you want one. The day was sunny, bright, cold. |
| 12/17/2016 |
9:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
1.5 |
M |
a few desultory snowflakes falling. so many elk prints tearing up the yard, hard to find a place to measure snow depth. I heard two isolated gunshots this am. I fear someone shot my elk. |
| 12/18/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
1.5 |
M |
grey, sunbreaks off and on. Elk have not returned |
| 12/19/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.21 |
M |
M |
1.0 |
M |
A grey day, not raining now, but snow was replaced by rain. A sun break over Portland in the west is now gone........ I will miss all the lovely ice structures on my streams. |
| 12/20/2016 |
9:20 AM |
1.43 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Grey, not raining. Stream is full, but not in flood. The rain has washed away all the snow, and all the ice structures decorating the little stream |
| 12/21/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny and bright, frost at its most beautiful everywhere, frost flowers back on the stream trails! |
| 12/22/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a bright day; the sky is covered in soft white with blue showing through |
| 12/23/2016 |
6:00 AM |
0.13 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark, raining lightly |
| 12/29/2016 |
9:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, pale blue sky with linear wisps of white, tops of the cottonwoods bare but beautiful, catching the rays, stream winter full but no more than that |
| 12/30/2016 |
8:00 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist |
| 1/1/2017 |
11:45 AM |
0.44 |
3.0 |
M |
3.0 |
M |
a beautiful white world and coming down still. sorry about the late check. 2 1/2 to 3 inches depending on where I check. |
| 1/2/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
3.5 |
M |
sunshine, blue and white sky early, tree tops shining their white on green, now overcast, and I have not even been to the stream yet. Yesterday there was hail beginning a little before 3pm. Up higher, tiny opaque pellets, rounded, like a small version of popcorn snow. When I got down lower, to the stream, the hail was more translucent and angled with flat faces. The beautiful frost flowers of New Year's Eve were a brief gift. When the temperature drops below twenty this week, there should be another gift of crazy ice on the streams. |
| 1/3/2017 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
3.5 |
M |
sunshine. Hummingbirds, at least some, still alive, juggling frozen and defrosted feeders for them. |
| 1/4/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
3.5 |
M |
grey sky, power going on and off, mist last night, or something small and icy or wet seeming to come down, though nothing in the gauge. |
| 1/5/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
3.0 |
M |
sunshine! Beautiful ice formations along the streams |
| 1/6/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
3.0 |
M |
sunny and bright, the City of Roses gleaming in the west. no water when I got back from the stream yesterday pm. Pipes frozen; still no water today. |
| 1/7/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
3.0 |
M |
Grey sky, somber light. By now, however, there was freezing rain about 10 am followed by sleet, some popcorn snow style of rounded, opaque hail, then snow, which continues off and on. Water is finally back on, at least as long as I have power. Ice on the streams has continued, so beautiful, and makes all the winter traumas worthwhile. |
| 1/8/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.35 |
M |
M |
3.0 |
M |
Raining. Sad, there was finally enough snow that I was going to try skiing some of my trails, now turning into slush. Power outage weather; so glad I have had water back to stock up. |
| 1/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.97 |
M |
M |
3.0 |
M |
Grey sky, but lots of light. Yesterday each branch down to the tiniest twig, each needle and frond, all had a glistening sheath of ice, like a festival of lights when the sun came out. |
| 1/10/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.61 |
M |
M |
2.5 |
M |
grey sky, light rain |
| 1/11/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.37 |
0.0 |
M |
3.0 |
M |
wind and blowing snow last night, very little visibility on the Gordon Creek switchbacks coming home, and a massive fir with a couple smaller friends blocking my own drive, had to walk the last part. I posted road conditions on our neighborhood website and mentioned my tree. A neighbor saw it and came out in the middle of the night with chainsaws and got a big enough space cleared for me to get my car home. Good thing; so much snow by morning--- when I was going to deal with it-- that it is unlikely I could have retrieved my car for days. I am probably blocked into this beautiful place for the duration. Steady snow falling earlier, now letting up as I write this. |
| 1/12/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
3.0 |
M |
|
| 1/13/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
2.5 |
M |
sunny, incredible moon the last two nights, bright as day, trees casting moon shadows on the snow |
| 1/14/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
2.5 |
M |
sunny and bright |
| 1/15/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
2.5 |
M |
sunshine |
| 1/16/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
2.0 |
M |
sunny and bright. Yesterday a friend talked me into going to Oaks Bottom, a frozen lake in SE Portland area. He did not talk me into skates, unfortunately, but I did get to see him out on the lake with a hockey stick, and slid along on the ice with a hockey stick, occasionally managing to return it. May be the last time in my lifetime that Oaks Bottom freezes solid enough to go out on the ice.Just one more of the many silver linings to the weather disaster in Portland. |
| 1/17/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
sunny off and on, a blue and white sky. Later the rain came, never clearly the predicted freezing rain, though sometimes hard to tell. Raining rain rain now. Past two days two hooded merganser at the stream; only one today. The lovely ice creatures in the stream were changing as I watched; the rain falling, changing shape and form as they melt. |
| 1/18/2017 |
8:00 AM |
1.35 |
M |
M |
2.0 |
M |
|
| 1/19/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.37 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
grey, still icy |
| 1/20/2017 |
8:30 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
raining |
| 1/21/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.20 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
The day began for me with sun, though it was pouring rain by the time we were heading down to the Women's March in downtown Portland. Snow is gone, but still with sheets of ice strategically placed to get vehicles to slide and spin. |
| 1/22/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.52 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Not raining now. Grey sky, but opening to blue and light over the City of Roses. It took me a long time to warm up after returning wet and cold from the Women's March yesterday. Uwe ka lani; the heavens weeped over Trump. It was glorious to be there with over 100,000 others all asking for the path of compassion and democracy, rather than the rule of greed, and corporate takeover of our government. The friendly police had pink hats or flowers in their buttonholes; not exactly like the 60s, though the same shared camaraderie and determination of the massed protesters. |
| 1/23/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
a soft and fuzzy grey sky, patches of blue showing through |
| 1/24/2017 |
7:45 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
clear sky, some haze to the west |
| 1/25/2017 |
5:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a dark wet world, not raining |
| 1/26/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Wet world, grey sky, not raining. The day became quite lovely later. |
| 1/27/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass, sunny sky, a sightly haziness to its blue, more haze over the City oF Roses, its buildings lit up by the sun |
| 1/28/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
soft white sky, blue showing through |
| 1/29/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
white-grey sky, thinning to blue |
| 1/30/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, grey-white sky, blue showing in the west |
| 1/31/2017 |
7:50 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, fine moisture in the air, mist to the west. that night mahina, the moon, was a soft sliver as I drove home, flirting with the evening star. |
| 2/1/2017 |
8:30 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
When I try to pour the .03 out, it is frozen. Grey sky, loud wind whipping the tops of the trees, but I don't see the grey moving, and if I throw up leaves, they do not tell me the direction of this high up wind. |
| 2/2/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, sky is streaky white varying in thickness and softness, blue behind. today at least I can see the whiteness moving from south to north |
| 2/3/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a thin and bumpy sheet of ice over the patio rocks, not much on trees or plants, beginning to rain a mostly wet rain now. Grey sky. Orca managed to get the bird suet holder down, or the rain did, and it was making her very happy when I went out this am. Less sighting of hummingbirds at the feeders; have they moved on? |
| 2/4/2017 |
6:00 AM |
1.19 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark. raining |
| 2/5/2017 |
9:20 AM |
3.08 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
raining hard, fat and opaque and trying to be snow. Can't wait to get down to the stream to see what has happened with all this rain. |
| 2/6/2017 |
10:20 AM |
1.16 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a fine light snow, then the beautiful kind, dancing as it came down, now a light rain. The snow made a great wind sock, often as expected slanting from south to north, but much of the time almost sideways, north to south. Sometimes, standing in the middle of my little living room, I could turn from looking out front to looking out back, and the snow would be slanting in opposite directions.. Do I have little, personal winds and breezes, crafted by my topography and trees? In Hawaii, each individual wind and breeze is a being, with its own name. My brother in law's dog was named Kakea, after a certain wind of which my brother in law was fond. I should try to find out whether the native Americans have names for the individual winds here, so I can address them by name. |
| 2/7/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.23 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
snowing |
| 2/8/2017 |
7:00 AM |
0.44 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
a bit of light rain, most of our beautiful snow washed away |
| 2/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
1.32 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
grey but not raining when I read the gauge, bursts of hard rain off and on since. Skiing at Teacup yesterday, snow turned to rain, and it was a very wet skiing day, I hope it gets colder, and all this wonderful precipitation can be saved in the snowpack for summer. |
| 2/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.32 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
pale blue sky, sunshine, soft white clouds with a few becoming puffy whites. |
| 2/11/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey; not raining |
| 2/12/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey shite sky, bright light |
| 2/13/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky, white moon |
| 2/14/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky, white clouds |
| 2/15/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.33 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 2/16/2017 |
8:45 AM |
1.54 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey white sky with patches of blue, now just overcast but not yet raining |
| 2/17/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.67 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunny and bright, earlier grey and bright |
| 2/18/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 2/19/2017 |
7:45 AM |
0.56 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 2/20/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.70 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 2/21/2017 |
8:30 AM |
0.60 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 2/26/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.39 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
snowing. .07 was rain, the rest snow. Snow is wet, don't want it to turn to rain |
| 2/27/2017 |
10:30 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
snowing. |
| 2/28/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly |
| 3/1/2017 |
6:30 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey; mist in the distance |
| 3/2/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining. A glorious day xc skiing at Teacup on Mt Hood yesterday, lightly snowing off and on, Mt Hood standing above the trails, clear and magnificent, his outline slightly softened by the snow in the air |
| 3/3/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey but bright, not raining, buds out everywhere, saw the first furled tip of a trillium |
| 3/4/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.34 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
grey soft light, water drops dangling from fir tips. Stream is back down to winter rushing normal. Dogs tell me something big has been on the trails--- bear? cougar? Add: At 2:30 there was a lovely sun break with simultaneous small hail, lasting only a few minutes. |
| 3/5/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.22 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Lovely crystalline frost on grass, for the rest of the day alternating snow, some rain, some hail. |
| 3/6/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.31 |
1.5 |
M |
1.5 |
M |
Awoke to a white world again, Christmas card trees, dogs decorated with snow dapples, yard all white. Since then, some rain, some new snow, no longer a Christmas card. There was only a trace of snow at the stream, and three waterbirds---? atypical Hooded Merganser? The same ones here before? All is budding, though confused by the weather. |
| 3/7/2017 |
7:30 AM |
0.24 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
raining |
| 3/8/2017 |
7:00 AM |
1.16 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly |
| 3/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
1.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Desultory big raindrops today. Tuesday it was a veritable blizzard on Mt Hood, driving white on white, hard to see the road, up to XC ski with kids from the School for the Blind. Wed my car died on the way up to ski with them, and I spent the day at the Subaru dealer, trying to decide whether to dump it or repair it. |
| 3/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.79 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunshine, blue sky with fat white clouds, now becoming overcast. |
| 3/11/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist, becoming rain, now rain and overcast skies. Stream is quite full and powerful again. Songbirds, songbirds, and everything shooting up, budding and beginning to bloom. |
| 3/12/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky with blue showing through, progresses to more blue and whiter clouds, now overcast again. |
| 3/13/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a wet world, grey sky, not raining now. A glorious day yesterday, sunshine from some magical inspiration, to nudge all the shoots and buds with the promise of spring |
| 3/14/2017 |
9:20 AM |
1.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining, all is budding some blooming shooting up |
| 3/15/2017 |
9:20 AM |
1.33 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining then, raining now. stream full and powerful and dirty. The carbon folks were up here Monday; my trees are not dense enough to qualify. Will have to keep seeking a way to keep this place safe after I die. |
| 3/16/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.69 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunny, bright and beautiful. Yard work and forest time |
| 3/17/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A glorious day yesterday. No rein when I took this; steady rain now. Trillium continue to come up |
| 3/18/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.71 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
rain coming down, checked the gauge, about .1 in less than 30 min. Unfortunately raining in the mountains also, decreasing that snowpack we have been so happy about. |
| 3/19/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.72 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine. frost. clear sky overhead, a lovely soft cloud sitting in the ravine |
| 3/20/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue and white sky, now grey. a glorious t shirt skiing day on Mt Hood yesterday |
| 3/21/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. NOAA said yesterday would be rainy, and the rain did not start until 5:30pm. |
| 3/22/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.45 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Grey sky, but bright and light |
| 3/23/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a blue and white sky; no sunshine yet. A great day yesterday for pruning; little rain, overcast, occasional sun. |
| 3/24/2017 |
9:29 AM |
1.22 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining steadily. A lovely day of clouds and sun yesterday. Rain came late. |
| 3/25/2017 |
6:00 AM |
0.63 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark. not raining |
| 3/26/2017 |
9:29 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining lightly. Tree School yesterday was as usual well worth the day. I won a 4 lb felling ax in the raffle! I bought the usual two packs of 6 for $5 to support Hopkins forest, then a couple minutes before the raffle realized I needed to round up to 13 and bought one more. There are only a few things I covet, amongst all the baseball caps, and the ax was one of them. All the women around me were jealous. |
| 3/27/2017 |
6:30 AM |
0.75 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey overhead, sunbreaks to the west |
| 3/28/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.18 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, wet, not raining. a snowy day at Teacup yesterday; I expected much more rain in the gauge. somebody has been eating some of my favorite trillium down by the stream. |
| 3/29/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.49 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a wet world, misty rain, ribes sanguinium covered in pink. |
| 3/30/2017 |
6:00 AM |
0.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
I did not write this down, from memory. I checked the map to make sure it was not out of line. This is the morning I needed to give commentary in Salem on HB 3226, to reform the Forest Practices Act, and I mis-set the alarm. I did get there in time. |
| 3/31/2017 |
7:20 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey. Later a lovely day up at Teacup Lake, shirt sleeve nordic skiing |
| 4/1/2017 |
11:44 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
light misty rain, mist to the yard and in the canyon. I did not check the gauge until late; probably would have only been trace if I checked by 9.Trilium are up most places, shy and lovely in yesterday's late afternoon light |
| 4/2/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey. I was in Portland earlier, sunshine there, later yesterday some off and on sun here |
| 4/3/2017 |
9:15 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, play blue sky, puffy whites to the west |
| 4/4/2017 |
7:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a grey morning, but a hopeful sky |
| 4/5/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a lovely cobblestone sky of white clouds against blue, clearing to blue in the west, with a grey cloud bank on the western horizon |
| 4/6/2017 |
8:20 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist and rain, houseguests here of course, missed the chance to walk to the stream yesterday with sun breaks lighting up the bright, clean-washed green of spring. Just a note: auto correct always changes sunbreak to snubbers. If you see a snubber in my note, it is a sunbreak |
| 4/7/2017 |
7:35 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Grey but bright. All is growing leaps and bounds. A glorious afternoon yesterday. |
| 4/8/2017 |
8:30 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Grey sky, beginning to lighten |
| 4/9/2017 |
7:30 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey but bright |
| 4/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining |
| 4/11/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine through a thin layer of grey, by now back to grey |
| 4/12/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.33 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey |
| 4/13/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.44 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining. a promise of sun earlier, kept only briefly |
| 4/14/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky overhead, a bright band of light over the City of Roses, her buildings shining in the sun
4:47pm crashing thunder, repeatedly. 4:55 pm the sky has opened up and hailing like crazy. I was just about to take the dogs on the hike to the stream. |
| 4/15/2017 |
9:10 AM |
0.24 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny and bright; a grey bottom white top cloud bank on the western horizon. Glorious evening light coming back from the stream yesterday. The trillium are turning pink..... some of my favorites to photograph either got eaten or never came up this year. My quadrillion has not appeared. |
| 4/16/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
grey but bright. sunshine seemed a promise, but never really came. No rain until after darkness fell. Got home late, walked the dogs at dusk. Two large owls did not speak, though I am guessing barred owl. Perhaps it was just one, invisibly moving from one end of the property to the other. Small bats, with their crazy flight, I am hoping not on the menu for owls. |
| 4/17/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy but bright, blue sky showing to the west, now greyed |
| 4/18/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.82 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
glorious morning, blue sky and wispy white clouds overhead, fat puffy white clouds tumbled up to the west. Now beginning to cloud over, and I have not made it to the stream yet! Most of today's rain in the gauge fell during the night, a hard loud rain, pounding down with cheerful abandon. 11:10: hailing like crazy. |
| 4/19/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. glorious day yesterday, a brief hail bout, then sun in and out, sunshine alternating with subdued, all clean green and spring. |
| 4/20/2017 |
7:40 AM |
0.50 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining |
| 4/21/2017 |
8:30 AM |
0.10 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
glorious sunshine |
| 4/22/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.08 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, but bright light, the sun shining through strong enough for sharply demarcated shadows on stone and grass. Now, as I write, all is grey and somber. A wet world, but no rain so far since I have been up. |
| 4/23/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a wet world, grey sky, an occasional raindrop. Yesterday provided a pleasant late afternoon, sun in and out lighting up the trillium. The sunset was in bands of pink and light, seeming to imitate the pink and white bands on the petals of the aging trillium. Trillium are so perfect when they emerge, pristine and white, but they do age gracefully, and some are now presenting their fruit in the center of their triumvirate of shapely green, petals falling away. |
| 4/24/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.74 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. Lots of time to enjoy the trails in between the more drenching rain yesterday |
| 4/26/2017 |
10:45 AM |
1.10 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining just a bit still. Sorry about the late read. |
| 4/27/2017 |
9:15 AM |
0.36 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey. yesterday rainy, but lovely, when the sun did come out it lit up all the bright clean green, bleeding heart glowing in pink translucence, water drops sparkling and shooting rays from every leaf. Thunder x3, 2:45, 51, then again later, rain started in between the first two, lightly, heavy after the second . 3:29 loud cracks of thunder preceded and folowed by hail alternating with rain. |
| 4/28/2017 |
7:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky with little white clouds just this side of puffy |
| 4/29/2017 |
9:10 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a sunny wet world |
| 4/30/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.49 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey but bright, not raining |
| 5/1/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining. Yesterday turned out to be a lovely sun in and out day. |
| 5/2/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.16 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, mist in the canyon |
| 5/3/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.20 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine! every plant and tree is drinking it up! a low bank of grey clouds on the western horizon, otherwise not a cloud is in the sky. Opened all the windows and took some houseplants outside to sunbathe. |
| 5/4/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunny, blue sky with white wisps, haze over the City of Roses to the west |
| 5/5/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.22 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining, wet, but rocks already drying. Clouds become fatter and whiter to the west. Yesterday afternoon and night was full of thunder, but no hail, and not even rain really, not until late. I went out on the tractor anyway, late afternoon into dusk, with trepidation. Trying to think out whether the roll bar would attract lightening to me, or divert it. Since not grounded, probably attract. Auwe. But the sky never lit up following the thunder rolls. |
| 5/6/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.36 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue, grey, some puffy white, promising a day of the best kind, sun and cloud, cool and warm |
| 5/7/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, blue sky with white puffy clouds |
| 5/8/2017 |
6:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, pale blue sky, haze to the west, becoming a DBOP |
| 5/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale blue sky lightly dusted with white, haze to the west, DBOP |
| 5/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale blue sky, haze to the west, DBOP |
| 5/11/2017 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wettish grass,a white cloud sky just a little too soft and fuzzy to be cobblestone clouds. |
| 5/12/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.37 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 5/13/2017 |
7:30 AM |
0.28 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly. yesterday was a day of rain, sun, hail, sun, rain/hail, sun, overcast, rain, sun. so spring. 4:27pm thunder, power went out briefly, hail, now turning to rain. There was a bit of sunshine just before this all started. |
| 5/14/2017 |
8:55 AM |
0.53 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. Uwe ka lani, olu ka honua. |
| 5/15/2017 |
8:50 AM |
0.21 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, blue sky with fat puffy clouds to the west, edges a little softer overhead. a couple downpours yesterday, the phrase rain pounding on the roof manifests in the mind, the rental Jeep Patriot almost would not make it up the neighbors steep curvy drive; had to back up and try again 4 times before finally getting past the steepest turn, and I cannot back up. congenital lack of ability to back up without going off the road. Aren't those things supposed to be 4 wheel drive? And the rain pounded on the roof all the while, too dark to see where the precipitous drop off was..... |
| 5/16/2017 |
9:20 AM |
1.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. at least, unlike Sunday, the power is on.The tree branches are waving, so may be spoken too early. I smell skunk outside. The dogs find it fascinating. |
| 5/17/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.88 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a soft, misty morning. Yesterday was a day of rain, sunbreaks, hail, thunder, rain. The power did not go off. |
| 5/18/2017 |
9:15 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, blue sky, white clouds |
| 5/19/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunny blue sky, white clouds to the east and a cloud bank on the western horizon |
| 5/20/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, dry stone, overcast sky. tonight is the overnight astrophotography workshop on Mt St Helens. I hope the sky will clear. No milky way if overcast. |
| 5/21/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, dry stone, blue sky becoming whiter the farther west, hazy over the City of Roses. Glorious Milky Way in clear sky over Mt ST Helens last night. Have not slept yet. |
| 5/22/2017 |
7:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, sunshine, hazy to the west, DBOP |
| 5/23/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, dry stone, pale blue sky, warm sun, a bid, broad DBOP over Portland. DBOP= Dark bank over Portland since I have not defined it for awhile. I take it to be the dirtiness of pollution in the air. |
| 5/24/2017 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, overcast sky |
| 5/25/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, blue sky, white clouds, DBOP |
| 5/26/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky, DBOP |
| 5/27/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, pale blue sky with an occasional tiny wisp of white, big DBOP. All the little fruit beginnings on cherry and asian pear trees appear to be gone. Has the crazy weather done this? Red barlett still has its little fruit starts. |
| 5/28/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, sunshine, DBOP |
| 5/29/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist to the ground |
| 5/30/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist, light rain |
| 5/31/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, blue sky dusted with white, coalescing into puffy whites here and there, cloud bank on the western horizon, and yes, DBOP in spite of cleansing rain. |
| 6/1/2017 |
9:15 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 6/2/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, blue sky, puffy shite clouds with softening edges, denser the west |
| 6/3/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
misty, misty rain. cleared up by the tine I am entering this, now overcast. |
| 6/4/2017 |
8:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast. bright sunny day later on |
| 6/5/2017 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, sunny skies |
| 6/6/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, blue and white sky, DBOP |
| 6/7/2017 |
10:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, overcast sky, haze to the west. My two foolish young dogs ran out the gate as I was driving in last night. I was up much of the night searching for them. Finally found them, exhausted, coming out of the woods to my calls and whistles. Hard to say who was more relieved, me or the pups. Not sure if they met up with whoever it was they went after, but neither has bear swipes or serious injuries. The hiking cat made a show of still being here, as good as a dog, but seems glad that the pups are back. |
| 6/8/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.45 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly. More in the gauge than I expected. I hauled water in 5 gallon buckets on the tractor to the far flung blueberries yesterday, thinking there would not be enough to soak the ground. |
| 6/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.18 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue and white sky, haze to the west, sunshine comes and goes |
| 6/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.46 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast but not raining when I emptied the gauge; raining most of the time since. Yesterday was one of those rainy days, that when the sun comes out, the rain has prepared it to be the kind of beautiful, the kind of beautiful possible only when sunshine lights up the rain drenched world, in the fullness of spring. |
| 6/11/2017 |
8:30 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 6/12/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky, not raining. My hopes for mowing and weed whacking were soon dashed as rain has now returned..... |
| 6/13/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a fuzzy white sky with blue breaks and lots of light. Then, began to rain lightly. |
| 6/14/2017 |
9:15 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a blue and white sky. A good day overall for working outside and killing my back weed whacking |
| 6/15/2017 |
8:20 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 6/16/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.95 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. |
| 6/17/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.58 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
green world, sunshine, blue and white sky, a beautiful day. The gauge last night before bed was exactly the same as this am. |
| 6/18/2017 |
11:30 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
warm and sunny, damp grass, fuzzy white sky, by the time I am writing this the sky is blue with daps and dustings of white. sorry about the late reading... |
| 6/19/2017 |
8:30 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, mist and sun, creating together a radiant crown of mist rays above the house, as magical and mystical as a coming, in this case, the coming of the day |
| 6/20/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, overcast sky |
| 6/21/2017 |
8:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue and white sky, sunshine |
| 6/22/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Where did that trace come from? Not a trace fell from the sky, as far as I can tell. Wet grass (there?) sunny sky, DBOP |
| 6/23/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, sunshine, DBOP, heating up already |
| 6/24/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, sunshine, DBOP, heat rising |
| 6/25/2017 |
11:55 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, not surprising given the late read, blue sky with a few white wisps, white haze to the west, heat rising. |
| 6/26/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, white clouds to the west, more 3D puffy whites and cobblestone clouds in the blue sky overhead, still pleasant and cool |
| 6/28/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky |
| 6/29/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass. pale blue sky, fuzzy grey-white clouds, grey cloud bank on the western horizon |
| 6/30/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, pale blue sky with squiggle dap white clouds over head, haze to the west, big DBOP |
| 7/1/2017 |
7:45 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist, and misty rain. all is wet as if it had really rained |
| 7/2/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
misty morning |
| 7/3/2017 |
10:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky |
| 7/4/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky with dabs of white overhead, white and streaky to the west, and sadly, sadly, a very ugly very broad very dark DBOP. And no rain predicted this week at all, nothing to clean the air.
May we celebrate this day not just as a nation, but as citizens of this beautiful earth. This earth and all her life, animal and plant, and her dirt and stone, choose to love her, and choose to take care of all our brothers and sisters and our mother earth and her life. I am so lucky to live with beauty every day, but even here,in my forest, she is so fragile and so vulnerable to us. One nation under God, forgetting where we get our air, our water, our life. |
| 7/5/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, blue sky, DBOP |
| 7/6/2017 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky, DBOP |
| 7/7/2017 |
8:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky |
| 7/8/2017 |
8:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
very wet grass, lots of condensation in the gauge, pale blue sky, DBOP |
| 7/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky with white streaks, haze to the west |
| 7/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, blue sky overhead, most of the rest with soft white clouds painted across, denser to the west, DBOP |
| 7/11/2017 |
7:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky, DBOP |
| 7/12/2017 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass,, overcast sky |
| 7/13/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, overcast sky, it might have been my imagination, but I thought I felt a few soft raindrops on my face |
| 7/14/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale blue sky, haze to the west, DBOP |
| 7/15/2017 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale blue sky, haze to the west |
| 7/16/2017 |
8:43 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, blue sky with puffy whites cruising by, DBOP not so dark today. Lovely waterfall hike in the Gorge yesterday. The carbon guys are doing an inventory on my woods tomorrow. I am lacking, I fear, with the enthusiastic profusion of wildlife friendly native hardwood out numbering my solemn conifers..... another of my efforts to find a way to keep my woods safe after I am no longer here to protect them. |
| 7/17/2017 |
7:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, condensation in the gauge, one drop fell into its very dry self |
| 7/18/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear blue sky, big DBOP |
| 7/19/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, blue sky,haze to the west, bad DBOP |
| 7/20/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky. wish I had gone on the Table Rock hike, perfect weather. |
| 7/21/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, blue sky, DBOP |
| 7/22/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, pale blue sky, haze and DBOP to the west |
| 7/23/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, stone wet enough to look like it rained, mist |
| 7/24/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass. blue sky, DBOP |
| 7/25/2017 |
9:13 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass. blue sky with wispy white clouds, DBOP |
| 7/26/2017 |
8:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky with soft white clouds. |
| 7/27/2017 |
9:18 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, overcast sky, moisture in the air. |
| 7/28/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass. blue sky with the occasional soft white cloud, more clouds to the west |
| 7/29/2017 |
7:50 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky, haze to the west, DBOP |
| 7/30/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, thank goodness, blue sky, clouds and a big ugly DBOP in the west. |
| 7/31/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue cloudless sky, DBOP |
| 8/1/2017 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, blue sky, DBOP. You guys were smart to start showing several days results after we push submit. I am putting this in the next day, and was quite sure I had not forgotten yesterday until 8/01 showed up blank....... New computer was the wrong one, the replacement not due til 8/10, this one failing.... |
| 8/2/2017 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Dry grass, dry world, blue sky without a cloud, the DBOP over Portland is dark and has no distinct edge, a dirty haze extending up into the sky, a dirty sky today. The earth and sky alike crave the cleansing of rain. We are more than 7 weeks without rain now. The streams are low, the little perennials may dry up completely soon |
| 8/3/2017 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, dirty sky. Seems overcast but apparently just smoke from far off----so far--- forests burning |
| 8/4/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, dirty sky, and, not a cloud is in the sky, not one. 48 days now, no rain. afraid to exhale after eating hot chiles, that my breath might ignite a forest fire. I mistakenly put 7 weeks of no rain previously, when I meant 6 wks. Tomorrow will put us at 7. Oh you who always complain about Oregon always raining, are you finally noticing what our summers can be like? Will you at least love the rain a little when it returns |
| 8/5/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp almost wet grass, or atlas some weed leaves are wet, blue sky, no clouds, DBOP but sky is less dirty and smokey. It seems I spend most of the day watering berries and plants, water from the spring even though I left most things go brown. I do not want to lose the blueberries or the young mulberry and weeping mulberry or the new ginkgo trees. My orchids are having summer break on the porch again, now that it is not quite so hot. |
| 8/6/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, blue sky covered with light brush strokes of white, cloud bank in the west, DBOP. By the time I am writing this it is overcast. |
| 8/7/2017 |
8:50 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 8/8/2017 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, clear sky overhead, haze to the west |
| 8/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Dry grass, cloudless sky, smokey haze denser again |
| 8/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Dry grass, cloudless sky, DBOP |
| 8/11/2017 |
8:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, sky is overcast but beginning to bunch up into a cobblestone pattern, with blue showing through. Solid slightly dirty haze to the west. |
| 8/12/2017 |
6:55 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky, DBOP |
| 8/13/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. first since 6/17. I spent hours watering yesterday because NOAA made it sound as if it would be too little.... |
| 8/14/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast sky, a nicely wettened world. That makes 0.33 inches since the rain on 6/17. |
| 8/15/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky overhead, soft white clouds to the west, DBOP |
| 8/16/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky, DBOP |
| 8/17/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, wet car, overcast sky, moisture in the air |
| 8/18/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky, moisture in the air. I hope this overcast habit won't carry over on to the eclipse. |
| 8/19/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Dry grass, blue and white sky, some of the clouds verging on puffy whites status. Now it is getting close to time of day for eclipse, and no clear sky yet. Hopefully it will do better tomorrow, in Mollala. I still need to make a holder for one of my two pairs of eclipse glasses, to put it in front of my camera lens. If not able to do it in a way that works, will just hit the self timer at totality. Or not. Might be better just to hold my breath and watch. |
| 8/21/2017 |
10:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
I was not here, but since it is still zero on 8/22, I am jumping to the conclusion that it was zero. the problem with multidays is that when I look at the overall stats I think I have missed days. When you come up with the number of days reporting, 365 or less, I can't remember whether you count a multiday as 1, i.e. you count reports not days? |
| 8/22/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, dry world, overcast sky. Eclipse was perfect, but I checked my camera and looked up and totality was over. So brief. I enjoyed the full partial, before and after, feeling the temperature changing. No bats though, no snakes stopped in mid slither. The forester where we were saw a cougar earlier, but the cat did not come out again as the shadow of the moon progressed. Totality is nothing like partiality. I wish the moon would do this once a week, Sunday morning maybe, and we could all join in appreciating all that is more than our small though wonderful selves. |
| 8/23/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, n spite of mist to the ground earlier at 7. sky overcast |
| 8/24/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky beginning to bunch up into clouds, patches of blue. still cool |
| 8/29/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky, DBOP, coughing due to smoke |
| 8/30/2017 |
7:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass mist to the ground |
| 8/31/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 9/1/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, no clouds.,DBOP. This drought is getting scary. The forest is so dry. Very worried. Flooding in Houston, drought and forest fires in the west.
|
| 9/2/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, blue sky, DBOP |
| 9/3/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky, DBOP |
| 9/4/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast smoky world. I wish the idiots would stop target practicing. |
| 9/5/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
evacuated today with two dogs and two cats. fire is moving fast |
| 9/6/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
I was actually camped out at a friend's in N Portland but know there was no rain, Nothing in the gauge when I returned in the evening. |
| 9/7/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast, not as smokey. Dogs but even more so cats glad to be back. Watered in case I have to go again. chainsawed small trees near the house |
| 9/8/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, sky a slightly rippled white, a hint of blue in the creases between the ridges. Thunder crashed late yesterday, followed by a little bit of rain, not enough to wet the ground, but such a sign of hope. Uwe ka lani, ola ka honua. The heavens weep, and the earth sprouts forth. There is so much to weep for, and we need much more than these few tears to stop the fires. |
| 9/9/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 9/10/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist earlier. Even such a small blessing, less and a tenth of an inch, makes the world seem as if it could survive these fires. There is a meeting with our fire dept tonight. I unpacked the suitcase by the door. Probably too soon. Wind is from the east again on Monday. |
| 9/12/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, blue sky covered with light brush strokes of white, haze and a broad, smoky DBOP to the west. Yesterday was less smoky here, but in the evening suddenly my house filled with the smell of fresh, fragrant, wood smoke, instinctive fear rising again, fear the fire was again approaching. Just the winds changing, just the winds. Today I will go to town and fetch my photo drives from my friend's basement in town, leaving other things there a while longer..... |
| 9/13/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, blue sky lightly brushed with soft white, haze and DBOP to the west |
| 9/14/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, blue sky mostly covered by soft white, clearing to the east, DBOP. Never downloaded the field photos with all the fire stuff happening, and my photo drives in a basement in town. Not the first time I have taken them and forgotten. |
| 9/15/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, pale blue sky with an occasional dab of white, haze and DBOP to the west |
| 9/16/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, smoke blankets the land again, wind has turned in our direction, fire now 45,000+ acres and moving toward us. Dogs are anxious. The fire folks don't think there is significant danger that it will get this far, not like the crazy Mon-Tues at the beginning. |
| 9/18/2017 |
9:25 AM |
1.52 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
glorious rain. A wet world. Very lightly raining now. Giving thanks the fire did not get to me, mourning all that was lost. |
| 9/19/2017 |
8:00 AM |
0.98 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a wet world, crystal clear Gordon Creek now running dirty, and higher, not raining when I emptied the gauge, but moderate rain restarting a few minutes later. I feel as if the heavens are pouring bucket after bucket on the fire |
| 9/20/2017 |
9:29 AM |
1.45 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not raining now, a touch of moisture in the air, bright light beginning to pick out individual clouds to the west, and illuminate buildings in Portland |
| 9/21/2017 |
9:00 AM |
0.52 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast sky, not raining now. Most of the rain fell during the day, as the gauge was at 0.48 yesterday afternoon. Some but not all of the usually perennial streams are running again. Gordon Creek is no longer abysmally low. |
| 9/22/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunshine and blue sky with soft white clouds when I read the gauge. Now overcast |
| 9/23/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, initially blue sky with white clouds and sunshine, now more white and less blue, and light is more subdued |
| 9/24/2017 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass. blue sky dusted with white |
| 9/25/2017 |
8:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, rain patterns on patio rock, but apparently not enough to get into the gauge, overcast sky, haziness to the west |
| 9/26/2017 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale blue sky with soft wisps of white, haze in the west. It made a pretense of raining yesterday. Today at the pond the smoke smell is strong again. It is dry again, and warm. Hopefully the fire will not gather momentum again. With the hard rains we thought it was over. |
| 9/27/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, cloudless pale blue sky, haze and DBOP in the west. Wind is rippling the tops of the cottonwoods, always so responsive to any movement of the air. No wind at ground level. |
| 9/28/2017 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky overhead, haze in the west, DBOP. Wind in the treetops, less smokey |
| 9/29/2017 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
light drizzle, overcast sky, the lid of clouds lifting a bit, like the edge of a pot lid, over Portland in the west, opening up light onto the city. The east wind and heat was scary yesterday, but the fire did not move. |
| 9/30/2017 |
9:20 AM |
0.49 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, light coming through over the City to the west. All the rain came in one fairly brief downpour yesterday afternoon. Nothing more overnight.
5:28PM torrential downpour, rain mixed with hail. 5:38 Thunder Just felled a tree blocking the road on top of myself, got caught out in the rain after I crawled out from under the tree, soaked. Fire, take that! |