| Observation Date |
Observation Time |
Precipitation |
Snowfall |
Snowfall SWE |
Snow Depth |
Snow SWE |
Notes |
| 10/2/2018 |
9:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky |
| 10/3/2018 |
7:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale blue sky, DBOP |
| 10/4/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue and white sky |
| 10/5/2018 |
9:10 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. Must have just started, wet world though it is. |
| 10/6/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.91 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist to the ground. not raining now. Thank goodness for the rain! Will it be in time for some chanterelles? Chimney sweep here yesterday; wood stove ready for daily cozy rainy weather heat. |
| 10/7/2018 |
9:10 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grass is wet, patio stones are dry, sky is overcast |
| 10/9/2018 |
9:29 AM |
0.96 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Rained steadily but not hard most of yesterday. the lightest bit of rain falling when I checked the gauge, raining more earnestly since |
| 10/10/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a soft blue and white cobblestone sky. I expected more in the gauge; it seemed to be raining more than that yesterday. Some Vine maple has more deep red than usual this year. Bigleaf maple golden yellow. |
| 10/11/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet world, clear sunny sky overhead, DBOP |
| 10/12/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky, sunshine, DBOP |
| 10/13/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 10/14/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 10/15/2018 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sunny sky, DBOP |
| 10/16/2018 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, clear sky, DBOP and a cloud bank laying on the western horizon. I thought the rains were here, but no. We need them. Fire danger rises again. |
| 10/17/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sunny sky save for haze on the western horizon |
| 10/18/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, clear sky, haze in the west |
| 10/19/2018 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky save soft haze to the west |
| 10/20/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
very wet grass, at least some moisture for the suffering, clear sky, DBOP is particularly wide and dirty today |
| 10/21/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
It looks as if it has rained. All is wet. But nothing in the gauge. Not even a trace. Sunny clear sky, a very very broad DBOP. I obeyed the request that no one use a wood stove unless absolutely necessary, and the house is freezing this morning. |
| 10/22/2018 |
7:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky, DBOP |
| 10/23/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky now overcast. It looked like it has rained yesterday, fresh droplets on plants on my evening walk, but nothing in the gauge. |
| 10/24/2018 |
6:00 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark |
| 10/25/2018 |
4:30 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark. When I got home about 8:30PM, there was 0.2. I hope we get an inch. |
| 10/26/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, moist air, not raining, wanted more |
| 10/27/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.34 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, blue sky covered with soft white |
| 10/28/2018 |
9:00 AM |
1.50 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Finally. A good long drink. Began to rain when I was coming back from pulling a temperature logger, about 4 or 5. Power out just after I ate supper, came back on a bit ago. Wish we could have a good rain without a power outage for once. Foraged breakfast off the trees, luxuriating in my hot hot cocoa now.
5PM hailing now. Much thunder this afternoon.
|
| 10/29/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.39 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, but not dark or gloomy, nice clean light. Not raining now. |
| 10/30/2018 |
6:50 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey when I checked the gauge. blue sky and puffy whites now. Lots of mist on the way to pulling the last two temperature loggers from Gordon Creek. Can't wait to see how the stream did this year. |
| 10/31/2018 |
10:00 AM |
0.40 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain |
| 11/1/2018 |
9:20 AM |
1.13 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey skies, not raining, mist in the canyon.vine maple blueberries and persimmon beautiful shades of orange, bigleaf maple cottonwood bitter cherry yellow and gold, and the little ginkgo lit up like a yellow beacon. Many leaves have already tumbled, landing in unexpected postures and places, I sm kicking through leaves on the trails now in the joyous tradition of autumn. |
| 11/2/2018 |
9:15 AM |
0.34 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist |
| 11/6/2018 |
9:15 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist to the ground |
| 11/7/2018 |
8:30 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue sky, mostly covered by soft white clouds.It will be a beautiful day, but we need more rain |
| 11/8/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet world, sunny blue skies |
| 11/9/2018 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, blue sky lightly dusted with white, sunshine |
| 11/10/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overhead cloud cover breaking up to show blue sky. I disconnected and drained my irrigation system--- now where is the rain? Looked for chanterelles again yesterday: most patches are devoid of any mushrooms. |
| 11/11/2018 |
8:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, frost decorations on the leaves of weeds, blue sky dusted with white |
| 11/12/2018 |
8:15 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, with frost decorations, past three mornings, less wet and less frost today, blue sky dusted with white again. Winds are supposed to be high today, and power outage predicted. |
| 11/13/2018 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky covered with rippling white, haze to the west |
| 11/14/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
My heart lept at the sight of the wet, wet world, but only 0.01 in the gauge. Not enough for a good long drink. I hope the suffering conifers are drinking through their needles.... Overcast sky, a promising grey, may be rain later |
| 11/15/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.10 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
When I emptied the gauge, skies were blue, haze in the west. Soon after something settled down upon us, hopefully mist, but a hint of color, irritation with breathing, makes me fear it is smoke, or at least mixed with smoke. Whatever it is has filled the yard, what I usually call mist to the ground |
| 11/16/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
very wet world for so little in the gauge, white sky breaking up with blue showing through, DBOP and cloud bank (smoke bank?) in the west. Shivering in my fleece clothes and rubber flip flops since I obeyed the no wood stove burning request. I turned on the supplemental heat this am, but since it is an inverter, extracting the warmth from outside air, and outside air is still under 40 deg, the indoor thermometer has not budged. |
| 11/17/2018 |
10:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, clear blue sky, DBOP |
| 11/18/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet, clear, DBOP less |
| 11/19/2018 |
8:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass only, clouds to the west |
| 11/20/2018 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp frosty grass, blue sky, sunshine lighting up the last golden leaves at the top of the cottonwoods, trembling and flashing light to remind us that they can quake and quiver like their close relatives the aspen, DBOP |
| 11/21/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
cloudy, then rain started about 11:30, desultory so far |
| 11/22/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.21 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Awoke to no power and sunshine, not a disaster as I had made the pies last night, progressed to overcast then rain. Roads and trails all lovely jigsaw puzzles of leaves, never a good sign in terms of power staying on. |
| 11/23/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.68 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. I only weigh a pound more than yesterday, in spite of eating so much. And a whole French apple pie still left, mmmmm. .68 is a nice long drink for the trees, and hopefully not enough for any flooding. |
| 11/24/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.98 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
blue and white sky, sunshine, fine moisture in the rain, falls short of rain. The ribbons I tied to the persimmon tree is keeping them mostly bird uneaten, though I worry the strange weather has just meant the birds who eat them are missing. They are getting overripe on the tree in spite of looking perfect; I discovered this yesterday. I roasted two overripe ones for breakfast, and they are delicious. |
| 11/25/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, blue sky lightly dusted with white, frost etched grass and leaves |
| 11/26/2018 |
9:15 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Wet world, overcast sky, lots of persimmons still on the tree. How many apples and persimmons can I eat every day? Not sure my neighbors can handle any more deliveries from my trees either.... Nordic skiing starts soon; Teacup Lake already groomed. |
| 11/27/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.99 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining, slow and steady |
| 11/28/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.28 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. thunder and lightening the prior afternoon, hail and rain, blew out my landline phone and modem, not fixed til late on 28 |
| 11/29/2018 |
9:20 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
bright light through a white sky with a hint of blue |
| 11/30/2018 |
8:20 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. tree people coming to take out beloved trees for defensible space. auwe. |
| 12/1/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.63 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist to the ground, misty rain in the air |
| 12/2/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.32 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 12/3/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass, clear sky |
| 12/4/2018 |
9:15 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
frost, clear sky, sunshine |
| 12/5/2018 |
9:25 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass, clear blue sky, sunshine |
| 12/6/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass. nasturtiums held on so long, but now frozen, clear blue sky and sunshine. |
| 12/7/2018 |
8:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass, blue sky lightly dusted with white |
| 12/8/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
fine moisture in the air, falls just short of misty rain |
| 12/9/2018 |
7:15 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 12/10/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.92 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist to the ground, and rain falling right through as if there is no mist.
Hiked through the burn to Nesika yesterday. Trail just re-opened. The stream and the series of waterfalls still lovely, but such stark tragedy, columns of huge burned trees. |
| 12/11/2018 |
11:00 AM |
0.22 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. sorry I forgot to check the gauge earlier today |
| 12/12/2018 |
8:45 AM |
1.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey, not raining |
| 12/13/2018 |
8:30 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, blue showing through |
| 12/14/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, sky a rippling white with blue showing |
| 12/15/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.08 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A grey sky, lighted by underlying blue |
| 12/16/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.08 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Grey sky, blue showing through |
| 12/17/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.36 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 12/18/2018 |
9:00 AM |
1.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Not raining now, Power still on |
| 12/19/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.21 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey-white sky, blue showing through, not raining. About 5 PM yesterday, big lightening over and over, followed quickly by thunder, briefly rain in sheets. I unplugged all phones, after having my lines and phones all burned out during the last lightening storm. Surprisingly little rain after all the predictions for up to 3 inches. Stream is back up to usual levels, at least for now. |
| 12/20/2018 |
9:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining, desultory |
| 12/21/2018 |
8:15 AM |
0.38 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky, but no rain falling. |
| 12/22/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 12/29/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.92 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly.Stream yesterday almost back to normal winter level. Dogs so happy they are back to the usual long stream hikes, not the short dog sitter walks. The hiking cat did the whole stream loop as well. |
| 12/30/2018 |
8:05 AM |
1.00 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
hailing hard. Power out since the night before. |
| 12/31/2018 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
frosty,frosty, frosty, beautiful frosty leaves. Ice on the top of the water in the gauge. Blue sky, a white cloud here and there, such a beautiful day I wished I had not agreed to go skiing at Teacup. Nordic tracks were firm and fast, not a touch of ice; skating so perfect that the skis almost skated by themselves. Unfortunately the downhill conditions were equally good, and the drive was 3 1/2 hrs each way in traffic, with only 2 hrs to ski in between. But oh such a lovely two hours..... I hope my frosty home will be as beautiful for New Year's |
| 1/1/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass and leaves, blue sky with the occasional wispy white cloud, only a faint DBOP. The woods are blessed with frost flowers on the trails today, welcoming in the New Year. But alas, yesterday's frost flowers, already losing their sharp definition, not so fine and elegant as those I have photographed before. I skied at Teacup yesterday, thinking I had given up only frosty leaves and porcupine ice, thinking it was not fully frost flower weather yet. Nevertheless, they are beautiful still, and overall a gloriously beautiful first day of the year. |
| 1/2/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
In spite of predictions of freezing fog, moist air in other words, the frost flowers had continued to blunt their fine lines and had not grown more extravagant in icy beauty. So I gave in to pressure, and was the carpool driver again for a Nordic ski day at Teacup Lake. Mount Hood in his cloud cap, lit up bight white in the sunshine, graced our drive up, graced the ski trails, the macro version of icy beauty. |
| 1/3/2019 |
9:15 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain falling, washing away the frost magic. |
| 1/4/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not raining |
| 1/5/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Grey skies, bright light. Where was all the predicted rain? Rain is consistently falling short of prediction. Rainish weather, without much precipitation..... |
| 1/6/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.22 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly.. High wind last night; power out til 9:30 am |
| 1/7/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.33 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A soft white sky, thinning and parting here and there to let blue show through. Mother nature with a somber, church-going sky, unable to repress her cheerful, fun-loving side, winter play with white beauty, frost flowers and stream ice, until she can throw herself into the full color of spring. It is hard to know what season to love most. |
| 1/8/2019 |
9:15 AM |
0.40 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wind, wild, wild wind, whipping trees, not raining now, need power for the work I need to do today, poor chance it will stay on |
| 1/9/2019 |
7:20 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not fully light yet |
| 1/10/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.32 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey sky |
| 1/11/2019 |
8:15 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
pale blue sky heavily dusted with white |
| 1/12/2019 |
9:25 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, pale blue sky with the occasional wisp of white |
| 1/13/2019 |
9:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass, clear blue sky, sunshine |
| 1/14/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass, clear blue sky, sunshine, DBOP |
| 1/15/2019 |
5:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
frosty grass, starry and clear |
| 1/18/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sky is white but bright and lots of light. |
| 1/19/2019 |
9:25 AM |
1.98 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey but bright, not raining |
| 1/20/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.19 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
light but steady rain |
| 1/21/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not raining. We were all informed that it was too socked in to see the eclipse, and yet... the moon was so bright, when it finally rose high enough to be poised in a gap between tall treetops, it shone softly, fuzzily, about half way through the eclipse as it drifted into sight. And, just as softly, I was able to watch it progress to totality. In spite of my patience and persistence, I did not see it come back. The air had thickened. Much later, she cruised in her abnormal brightness through the clouds, and in spite of clouds, lighting up the landscape, casting moon shadows through the thick air. |
| 1/22/2019 |
8:37 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 1/23/2019 |
9:25 AM |
1.00 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast but bright, not raining. Skied at Teacup yesterday, a veritable blizzard of wet warm snow. This was the kind of snow the wicked witch of the west would send down on Dorothy, if Dorothy and the cowardly lion and scarecrow and tin woodman were traveling the yellow brick road on Nordic skis. The snow was like setting concrete, gluing itself in great stilts on the bottom of our skis, glueing us down, trapping us. Still much beauty to be in all that snow.... |
| 1/24/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast but bright. Later the white sky began to bunch into distinct fat white clouds, with blue in between. |
| 1/25/2019 |
8:30 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast and bright |
| 1/29/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
crunchy grass, though too little moisture to see frost, clear pale blue sky dusted with white to the west, sunshine, DBOP |
| 1/30/2019 |
8:40 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a frost flower day and I can't stay home! frost, clear, DBOP |
| 1/31/2019 |
8:45 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
frosty, clear skies and sunshine, DBOP |
| 2/1/2019 |
11:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
desultory raindrops. the predicted big bad snow keeps getting less big and less bad in the forecast. we desperately need more precipitation, preferably snow, at least in the mountains. |
| 2/2/2019 |
9:10 AM |
0.31 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
bright and sunny, clear blue sky with wisps of white |
| 2/3/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
soft, homogeneous white sky, touch of grey, the lightest of misty rain. Briefly rained harder a bit ago. Will there really be snow today? Yesterday was a glorious day of sunshine lighting up the edges of all the mossy trunks and branches, glowing gold green, twisting and twining their finery against the sky. |
| 2/4/2019 |
8:10 AM |
0.55 |
2.5 |
M |
2.5 |
M |
.15 water, melted another .40 snow.
white bright sky, separating to show horizontal bands of blue toward the west. Snow was wet as it began to fall last night, squishes down to not much at all, but beautiful and white, the first covering snow this winter. |
| 2/5/2019 |
8:00 AM |
0.41 |
M |
M |
6.5 |
M |
sticky wet snow, 6-7" deep, sky clearing to the west. Had to cancel my apt this am; neighbors texted that not only too icy and dangerous on the switchbacks, but wrecked cars and stuck tow trucks made it impossible to get through. what it must be like in the midwest and Chicago..... |
| 2/6/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
5.0 |
M |
The snow has settled rather than melted. Still cold enough for a lovely white world. followed coyote tracks (he is often on the trail camera) with the dogs, then off to ski, a perfect day at Teacup Lake |
| 2/7/2019 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
3.0 |
M |
snow is settling, crunchier and icier. Sunshine, pale blue sky, softly covered in white. DBOP |
| 2/8/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
3.0 |
M |
snow is now hard and crunchy. able to get in and out yesterday. for some reason when my new well was put in, the line was put above ground in the pole barn with a warming wire on it. Unfortunately my power often goes out when it is that cold...... still beautiful, trees pruning themselves, not too many down. |
| 2/9/2019 |
8:20 AM |
1.24 |
M |
M |
12.0 |
M |
Melted snow amount may be inaccurate; all snow did not fit in gauge, was not sure how much of cap to knock in. |
| 2/10/2019 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
11.0 |
M |
sunshine, clear sky, not clear whether possible to get out through the drive or on the roads if I did get out. Power is on, and the world too beautiful to leave anyway. There is DBOP over Portland. Trails are blocked by tangled masses of snow-laden branches; I am still in considerable pain after yesterday's stream walk, taking hours of forcing myself through walls, dumping snow down back and front and into camera bag...... I will try to get down today again..... a shorter version. |
| 2/11/2019 |
9:10 AM |
0.98 |
M |
M |
11.0 |
M |
guessing about 3 inches new. all snow in gauge. rain has started now. |
| 2/12/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.37 |
M |
M |
6.5 |
M |
Raining. At this point I am just hoping it will stay rain long enough to clear enough of the road in. |
| 2/13/2019 |
8:10 AM |
1.03 |
M |
M |
4.5 |
M |
Rain, not snow, all in gauge was water. overcast sky. drive out is drivable now, but I had to walk out, having left the subaru out on the paved road. It got a stick stuck in the linkage again, and would not shift. Looked at cars for sale after it was fixed. |
| 2/14/2019 |
10:00 AM |
0.08 |
M |
M |
3.5 |
M |
raining |
| 2/15/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.51 |
M |
M |
3.0 |
M |
overcast |
| 2/16/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.58 |
M |
M |
1.5 |
M |
mist |
| 2/17/2019 |
8:00 AM |
0.52 |
M |
M |
2.5 |
M |
Blue and white sky |
| 2/22/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
No frost, white sky separating here and there for a peek of blue, DBOP. Barred owl hunting last night. Earlier, dogs racing along the fence, something out there, probably the coyote or bobcat. Cougar unlikely to bother. In the dark, I discovered that trees had gone down while I was away, forming ramps up the fence.... A chainsawing day today.... |
| 2/23/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.48 |
0.5 |
M |
0.5 |
M |
last night all was solid white, but rain must have followed the snow, now bits of patio stone and blades of grass showing, car is no longer all white. |
| 2/24/2019 |
8:50 AM |
1.11 |
2.0 |
M |
2.0 |
M |
a white world again. very wet snow, mist or misty rain in the air. Slush in the gauge, snow already dropping off tree branches. |
| 2/25/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
2.0 |
M |
Old snow has become hard and crunchy, with a light covering of new snow on top, about 1/2 inch by estimate. It was not snowing when I went out to the gauge, but snowing again now. We need the snowpack in the mountains, but at this point would be glad for rain instead here. |
| 2/26/2019 |
8:20 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
2.0 |
M |
Sunny, DBOP. Hard snow, ice in the tracks on the unpaved road |
| 2/27/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
2.0 |
M |
snowing lightly when I checked the gauge. Snowing much harder now. depth is variable, 1-2+ inches in the place I usually measure |
| 2/28/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
2.0 |
M |
blue sky, semi opaque white clouds flowing like ripples in a stream. New snow is pin-head size hard white pellets, a mini popcorn snow. |
| 3/1/2019 |
9:10 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
1.0 |
M |
crunchy icy snow, sunny and bright, DBOP. Snowed fairly hard with big fat flakes for a while yesterday, but the snowflakes did not leave evidence of their arrival anywhere. In places where there is a sheet of snow not quite to the edges of an open space, there is a charming effect of the sheet beginning to retract toward the middle, as if elastic. I hope we switch to rain for a while here, and it continues to snow higher up. Gordon Creek is still low, though the small streams are running fairly normally now. |
| 3/6/2019 |
9:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
T |
M |
overcast. kSome freezing rain, some snowflakes. in the afternoon today it snowed 2-2.5 inches |
| 3/7/2019 |
8:00 AM |
0.34 |
2.1 |
M |
2.0 |
M |
overcast, not snowing now. Between 2-21/2 inches most places by yesterday eve. Hail later, about 1 pm |
| 3/8/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.33 |
M |
M |
2.0 |
M |
snowing lightly, small icy flakes |
| 3/9/2019 |
7:30 AM |
0.62 |
M |
M |
6.0 |
M |
Sunshine in the white tree tops, a bright white world |
| 3/10/2019 |
10:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
2.5 |
M |
clear sky, sunshine, snow has turned to concrete except in deeply shaded areas, impressive DBOP |
| 3/11/2019 |
8:55 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
1.5 |
M |
crunchy snow, rapidly contracting, cobblestone sky, DBOP |
| 3/12/2019 |
9:15 AM |
0.58 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
mist. snow still 2-4" in some areas, but only trace where I usually measure |
| 3/13/2019 |
10:00 AM |
0.53 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
|
| 3/14/2019 |
10:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
subdued light |
| 3/15/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
clear sky and sunshine |
| 3/16/2019 |
10:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
subdued light, DBOP. That trace of snow is really a very small trace now. I am debating putting the ET gauge back out. Skunk cabbage are well emerged, but I have not seen trillium yet. |
| 3/17/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Wet grass, sunshine, blue sky with an occasional wisp of white, DBOP |
| 3/18/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
damp grass, clear sky, sunshine, DBOP not as dark as yesterday. The first trillium emerged two days ago, but yesterday I found the other first trillium-- the two are usually tied for first-- had emerged and actually unfurled its leaves, its flower still a tight white tube. It is harder to see, tucked behind fronds of fern, growing from a vertical surface of rock and soil, a small trillium. |
| 3/19/2019 |
9:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, pale blue sky with the lightest dusting of white, sunshine. The DBOP is there, but faint today. The last trace of snow is gone, though there are still patches in the shade and along the trails. |
| 3/20/2019 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, blue sky, with wisps of white, big and ugly DBOP |
| 3/21/2019 |
8:45 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, a three dimensional white sky, dark and light, like rippling water, becoming cobblestone clouds to the west, DBOP |
| 3/22/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear pale blue sky, becoming white to the west, DBOP not as dark today |
| 3/23/2019 |
6:10 AM |
0.36 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
fine, misty rain, dark. |
| 3/24/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a wet world, wetter always than I expect when there is so little in the gauge. A thick white textured sky, beginning to separate here and there to show bits of blue. Stream continues to be low for the season, in spite of all the late snow. |
| 3/25/2019 |
10:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, grey sky |
| 3/26/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Clear sky, sunny and bright. Faint DBOP. |
| 3/27/2019 |
7:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, grey sky, wind wind wind |
| 3/28/2019 |
7:50 AM |
0.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunshine, blue sky with occasional wisps of white |
| 3/29/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a ripply white sky, blue showing through. |
| 3/30/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Blue sky, sunshine, DBOP. One stream monitor placed; will bushwhack and stream walk today for #2. Too many beautiful trillium to look at yesterday to get both done |
| 3/31/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue and white cobblestone sky, faint DBOP |
| 4/1/2019 |
7:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky |
| 4/2/2019 |
8:30 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast; the world looks as if it has had a good rain, but only .01 in the gage. My favorite trillium continue to appear, though not all have come up yet. None of the quadrillions seem to survive to reappear each year, and all last year's were eaten. I don't know whether being eaten rather than living the full bloom cycle affects survival to bloom again the following years. |
| 4/3/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, but bright light on the wet world. Photodynamic therapy yesterday; auwe no. Confined to darkness for a couple days, but had to break the rules to check the gage. |
| 4/4/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Grey sky, not raining |
| 4/5/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.52 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Grey sky, not raining, but by 10:30 a mist has fallen, soft and lovely. And now the rain again begins to fall. |
| 4/6/2019 |
9:05 AM |
0.65 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Steady rain |
| 4/7/2019 |
10:30 AM |
1.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Auwe, I forgot to go out to the gauge this morning. Steady rain when I did remember, pouring down now. We need this rain, but it will be the third year in a row with heavy rain as soon as my plum tree blossomed. Past two years no plums. And I am worried whether the stream will get so powerful that I will lose one or more of the four stream temperature monitors I put in. Too high now to get to them to check. The only excuse for forgetting to check the gauge this am was the rather horrible procedure I just had for actinic keratoses. Have to avoid light and by the time I had the fifty layers of sunscreen and was hatted and covered, I had forgotten about the gauge..... |
| 4/8/2019 |
9:10 AM |
1.79 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining |
| 4/9/2019 |
6:50 AM |
0.83 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
rain, and a soft mist |
| 4/10/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.38 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Misty, breezy, overcast but not raining |
| 4/11/2019 |
9:25 AM |
1.45 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, steady but desultory. |
| 4/12/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Not raining, red-flowering currents bright and blooming fully, plum tree lovely in its bad timing again this year. |
| 4/13/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast sky, a wet world. Poor plum tree. |
| 4/14/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.37 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 4/15/2019 |
9:10 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
bright and sunny, pale blue sky covered in transparent white, progressively denser white to the west, and a low line of fat white clouds sitting over the hills on the western horizon. |
| 4/16/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a soft white sky, breaking up to show blue |
| 4/17/2019 |
6:45 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast (later sunny and bright) |
| 4/18/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sunny bright, sky blue and white |
| 4/19/2019 |
9:25 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A wet world, as if there had been real rain, sunshine, blue sky with soft edged white clouds |
| 4/20/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.37 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a mist settled low last night, still sitting upon us this morning |
| 4/21/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a fine misty rain, not dense enough for mist, hardly qualifying as rain, light and refreshing to the skin, sky a soft white, cottonwoods bright leaved and stately, claiming their place of beauty among the conifers. |
| 4/22/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
grey-white sky, becoming blue to the west, sunshine, DBOP. Later a tall,solid bank of cloud to the west, a wall Trump would envy in its height and mass and illusion of impenetrability |
| 4/23/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.24 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A wet and somber world, fine moisture in the air, soft grey sky, mist in the canyon |
| 4/24/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny and bright, blue sky with fat white soft-edged clouds drifting lazily by. DBOP is back. |
| 4/25/2019 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, blue sky dusted with grey-white, DBOP |
| 4/26/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, DBOP |
| 5/1/2019 |
8:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear blue sky, sunshine, DBOP. Will try to get drip irrigation set up again today. This weekend is the reforestation at Nesika in the total burn area; not good that no rain predicted for awhile. |
| 5/2/2019 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, textured grey-white sky. A mostly cool and somber day, good for outside work, with a sunny late afternoon and DBOP at sunset. |
| 5/3/2019 |
8:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale clear sky, DBOP |
| 5/4/2019 |
7:45 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky overhead, clouds and DBOP in the west |
| 5/5/2019 |
8:55 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky with light gauzy white here and there, cloud bank and very dirty DBOP in the west. DBOP is dark band over Portland, and it does get broader and darker the longer no rain. Planted 1,360 seedling trees in the Nesika burn yesterday, but they won't survive without rain |
| 5/6/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine |
| 5/7/2019 |
8:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky but a sense of a light covering of, well, dirtiness, DBOP |
| 5/8/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, thankfully, blue sky dusted heavily with white, thicker cover to the west, DBOP bigger and dirtier the longer we have no rain |
| 5/9/2019 |
5:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale sky, DBOP. I did not latch the gate properly coming back from taking the garbage down to the road last night. The dogs took the opportunity to head off after the scent trails that have been tantalizing them on leash, big single cougar, maybe two, a pair of slightly smaller cougar hunting as a team, coyote, bobcat, deer all showing on the trail camera. Gave up searching along the cougar favored trails at 4:30 am; they came in at 5:40, Orca limping badly. So thankful to have them home and alive. Sickle moon was gorgeously colorful as only dirty air can do. |
| 5/10/2019 |
8:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, clear pale sky, sunshine, DBOP |
| 5/11/2019 |
9:40 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, blue sky, sunshine, DBOP covers practically half the sky today |
| 5/12/2019 |
9:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
grass is dry, barely damp in the deepest shade only if I use my sensory imagination, sky is blue dusted with white, denser to the west, DBOP continues to warn of dirty air |
| 5/13/2019 |
7:55 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, overcast sky |
| 5/14/2019 |
6:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 5/15/2019 |
6:45 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 5/16/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.27 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not raining now |
| 5/17/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.19 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast but bright |
| 5/18/2019 |
5:45 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 5/19/2019 |
6:00 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast. Off to tread school day #2 |
| 5/20/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.34 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly |
| 5/21/2019 |
8:50 AM |
0.13 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
white sky, but the sun is shining somehow, and a hint of blue through the white |
| 5/22/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 5/23/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist lays heavy on the land. Actually it is lifting already by the time I go out to the rain gauge, but I wanted to use that phrase. The early morning mist is so magical and transforming; I love to wake up to it. I recently learned that the height of coast redwood is limited by the hydraulic pressure needed and able to be generated to get nutrition/fluids to the topmost branches, but that where there is mist to give moisture up higher than the hydraulic pressure reaches, the trees can be taller. Ka'ua noe, misty rain.
Yesterday a little before 6 we had a downpour; I expected more in the gauge. |
| 5/24/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining, not heavy but steady. Wind is audible and visible in the trees, branches swaying, but every time I try to determine direction, it seems to change; leaves thrown up change direction, the slant of rain points a different way. A lightly swirling morning. |
| 5/25/2019 |
8:20 AM |
0.47 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not raining. Gauge had .45 around midnight, so most of rain was yesterday not during the night. |
| 5/26/2019 |
8:45 AM |
0.41 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist to the ground |
| 5/27/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Wetter than expected with .01 in the gauge, overcast |
| 5/28/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Wet world, overcast |
| 5/29/2019 |
4:40 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark |
| 5/30/2019 |
6:45 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist to the ground, a wet world but little in the gauge |
| 5/31/2019 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist |
| 6/1/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sky overhead, cloud bank and DBOP in the west |
| 6/2/2019 |
4:58 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sky looks likely clear, still darkish |
| 6/6/2019 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, bright white sky, blue showing through in the east, DBOP |
| 6/7/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
not raining in the am, then raining. wind, thunder and hail now at 2:58pm |
| 6/8/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.37 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly |
| 6/9/2019 |
9:15 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, clear blue sky with bits and swooshes of gauzy white, haze and DBOP in the west |
| 6/10/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, a touch of opacity between me and blue sky, big DBOP |
| 6/11/2019 |
8:05 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, clear sky, sunshine, DBOP |
| 6/12/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Dry grass, blue sky with wispy white clouds, sunshine. Pleasantly warm; heat does not hit up here until later in the day, and the shady forest trails stay cooler. |
| 6/13/2019 |
10:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass in the shade, clear sunny sky, big broad and dark DBOP
Sorry for the late read; long night |
| 6/14/2019 |
8:50 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet-ish grass, overcast sky. The overnight bug devouring of all ripe-ish strawberries is placing the strawberries and their bugs and slugs in the same category as cherries, a fruit produced in my gardens but never eaten by humans, just birds. I don't really mind growing food for birds, and I love growing for pollinators, but somehow I don't feel the same way about putting in all that strawberry work in order to support the diets of those particular bugs and slugs. |
| 6/15/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
When I looked outside earlier, there was light mist and the world looked wet enough to have had a real rain. When I checked the gauge, the mist had lifted, leaving just a trace of moisture in the air. Sky was overcast, but now sun is out, the homogeneous white is bunching up on the way to puffy whites, blue sky showing through. We need some real rain. |
| 6/16/2019 |
10:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, overcast sky, another late reading, CoCoRaHs may fire me. |
| 6/17/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 6/18/2019 |
9:10 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
a wet world, overcast sky |
| 6/19/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 6/20/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining lightly. Yay rain. |
| 6/21/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass only in the shade, overcast sky, bright light. Barred owl out hunting every night lately; bald eagle causing over head two days ago. |
| 6/22/2019 |
8:43 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
|
| 6/23/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast
|
| 6/24/2019 |
10:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, sunshine, blue sky mainly covered by soft white clouds, coalescing into puffy whites, DBOP |
| 6/25/2019 |
5:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, pale sky with scattered clouds, not fully light |
| 7/5/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Looks as wet as if it had really rained; overcast sky |
| 7/6/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet world, overcast sky |
| 7/7/2019 |
9:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky. Stream is so low, the hippopotamus rock has almost completely emerged. |
| 7/8/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, blue sky with the occasional white wisp, cloud bank and DBOP on the western horizon. By the time I am entering this, the sky is overcast |
| 7/9/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky with a hint of blue |
| 7/10/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.33 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 7/11/2019 |
5:00 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark |
| 7/17/2019 |
9:25 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky, the lightest touch of drizzle in the air. I spent so much time stuffing myself with ripe boysenberries that I forgot the ET reading and had to look again. Why is my ET the only one in Oregon this year?-- there were others. |
| 7/18/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.23 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A white sky, blue breaks in the west |
| 7/19/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, sunshine, soft white clouds in blue sky, DBOP |
| 7/20/2019 |
7:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear overhead, hazy DBOP in the west |
| 7/21/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, clear sky, sunshine, BIG DBOP. Worked all yesterday at Nesika in the total burn, trying to cut back vegetation to give the seedlings we planted the sun they need to survive. There is an invasive blanketing the land, covering the little seedlings. I did not free as many as I had hoped. I need to return with a rescue party to help me.
|
| 7/22/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, clear sky, sunshine, DBOP |
| 7/23/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 7/24/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, clear sky, DBOP |
| 7/25/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Damp grass, clear sky, DBOP. I have so many blueberries, but the birds are still keeping up, eating each one that ripens. I have to be satisfied with the not quite ripe... |
| 7/26/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, clear sky, sunshine, DBOP |
| 7/27/2019 |
11:10 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining quietly. Sorry about the late reading. If I had read the gauge at the usual time, it would have been another zero, as the rain did not begin until later. We had another 0.13 before it stopped. A welcome shower, but not the long tall drink the suffering trees need. |
| 7/28/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.13 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, clear sunny sky, DBOP and haze to the west over the City of Roses |
| 7/29/2019 |
9:25 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, baby blue sky mostly covered by soft white clouds, coalescing in the west, big DBOP. More wildfire to the south. Will we have another fire up here? I worry I should be cleaning gutters--not cleanable really, have those no-cleaning spongy things with flammable debris stuck on top--- and cutting more beautiful trees near the house, trees shading me in the summer, providing wind breaks all year round. I see wind in their branches now..... |
| 7/30/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 7/31/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, clear sky, sunshine, DBOP |
| 8/1/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, clear sky, sunshine, big DBOP. About twenty birds lifted off my blueberries when I went out to pick this morning. They aren't quite keeping up with each one that ripens anymore, but close. |
| 8/2/2019 |
6:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, clear sky, sunshine, big DBOP |
| 8/6/2019 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, clear sunny sky, cloud bank and DBOP in the west |
| 8/7/2019 |
10:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky. Sorry about the late reading. |
| 8/8/2019 |
8:50 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist to the ground when I looked out earlier, a fine moisture in the air when I checked the gauge, the drizzle NOAA promised. May the leaves and needles be drinking it in, if not the roots. Robins covered the open areas, searching with beaks for all who came out for the fresh moisture |
| 8/9/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
cloudy; the plants and trees continue to drink from their leaves. Not much has soaked into the ground
Rolling thunder began a little before 7. Initially from the south of me, then east, then overhead, continued rolling, rumbling, cracking. First raindrops at 7 PM. Not much rain until a bit ago, now raining harder. Never saw any lightening thank goodness; worried about forest fire whenever I hear thunder. |
| 8/10/2019 |
8:30 AM |
0.27 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
mist in the canyon, overcast sky. The thunder continued last night well past midnight, more and more violent, sky-rending cracks followed by long rumbles and rolls. More than the drizzle NOAA promised |
| 8/11/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.65 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sky nearly covered with thick white an grey clouds; a few blue breaks. Worked all day in the total burn area of the Eagle Creek fire, trying to find and free up the seedlings we planted that have been overgrown and overwhelmed. Got back at 8 pm; .3 in gauge then, so the rest was overnight. |
| 8/12/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Very wet grass, clear sky, sunshine, DBOP (already). Stream is not noticeably higher than before the rain. Portland apparently got more than I did! The rain is at a good time to give me hope for chanterelles this year, after two dry years with almost none up here. |
| 8/13/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, clear sky, sunshine, haze and DBOP in the west. Just the right temperature out for the morning vitamin D walk, checking the gauge and eating my first blueberries of the day off the bush. Crossed over to the island in the stream yesterday to inspect the invasive trefoil and pull thistles. Stream is so low that my hiking kitty followed me and the dogs across, instead of just staying on the near bank and howling as he does when the stream is anywhere close to normal level. I have not seen the beaver, but he did take down a little tree, encouraging me to think he continues alive and well, in spite of all the cougar and bobcat and coyote on the trail cameras. |
| 8/14/2019 |
8:45 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sunny sky. DBOP and haze in the west |
| 8/15/2019 |
9:05 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, overcast. It did not get sunny and warm until almost evening. A nice break. We Oregonians are lucky that in many places even with daytime temperatures in the 80s and 90s, it dips into the 50s at night. My shady forest trails generally are a cool tunnel, even on the hot days. |
| 8/16/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, overcast sky |
| 8/17/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining lightly |
| 8/18/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, DBOP |
| 8/19/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, overcast sky |
| 8/20/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Wet grass, blue sky dusted with white, haze and DBOP in the west |
| 8/21/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
barely damp grass, overcast |
| 8/22/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.36 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
sky covered in soft white clouds with sunshine coming through when I checked the gauge; overcast now. Rain needed and appreciated, though I have been scrubbing the house in preparation for the cousins' visit, and the dogs and cats have covered it with mud and leaves again.... |
| 8/23/2019 |
10:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, blue sky lightly dusted with white, DBOP |
| 8/24/2019 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cousins here as brief houseguests; in all the rush of making the ground nut pancakes with garden berries, or stuffed with ricotta and chocolate and topped with homemade dark chocolate sauce-- it takes so long to feed everyone with pancakes--- and getting in stream walks before they had to leave, I forgot to write down the ET reading. Zero rain, and most rain actually, is easy to remember. And the poor cousins, enjoying the stream, the outdoor shower, distracted by a new piano to play, were late to the memorial they had flown here to attend anyway. Auwe no. Once on Hawaiian time, always on Hawaiian time. |
| 8/25/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly dry grass, a little wetness only in the tall grass in the shade, soft white sky, blue breaks in the west with a sunbeam or two, soon gone. |
| 8/26/2019 |
8:45 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
very wet grass, condensation on gauge plus one dead bug inside, clear sky, sunshine, and very big and dark DBOP |
| 8/27/2019 |
8:45 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
dry grass, clear sunny sky, haze and DBOP in the west |
| 8/28/2019 |
9:05 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Dry grass, clear sky, already feel heat, haze and very wide DBOP in the west |
| 8/29/2019 |
9:05 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, textured white and grey sky with bits of blue showing,DBOP still there, not raining then, but now it has rained a bit, just a bit. .01 may have been stretching it, with the dead bug taking up volume. |
| 8/30/2019 |
8:45 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast. Everything seems surprised to be wet. |
| 8/31/2019 |
7:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 9/1/2019 |
7:15 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
overcast |
| 9/2/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sunny sky, DBOP |
| 9/3/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sunny sky, DBOP |
| 9/4/2019 |
8:50 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, overcast sky |
| 9/5/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
damp grass, a textured rippling and riffling white sky, separating here and there to show long curves and short patches of blue |
| 9/6/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Dry grass, blue blue sky with drifting white clouds, big white clouds with wispy edges. DBOP |
| 9/7/2019 |
11:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mist to the ground early, retreating and a fine misty rain when I read the gauge, mist has come and gone again since, not retreating farther than the canyon. The seemingly mild URI I caught from my little granddaughter last weekend gets a little worse each day, now fully in my chest, coughing and wheezing and not going out to the gauge until 11... |
| 9/8/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.63 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Some real rain. Need to go check chanterelle land again. Overcast now, not raining. Thunder began around 4:30 yesterday. I always say that in spite of frequent thunder, I never see lightening here. But when I checked on one of the outdoor cameras, there was great forked lightening to the southwest. I stopped splitting wood with the big splitter after the thunder got more frequent, thinking working with a huge hunk of metal in a thunder storm was not a good idea. |
| 9/9/2019 |
10:50 AM |
0.57 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Steady, moderate rain. Has stopped raining by the time I am entering this. Apologies for another late entry; still sick, still splitting wood all day, so barely able to move by morning. |
| 9/10/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A soft white sky, coalescing into puffy whites in the west, blue showing in between |
| 9/11/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast. Injured myself yesterday chainsawing a tree fallen across the trail, which turns out was under tension and flung itself at me when released. The second time this has happened. I need to get better at assessing for this. Today I can bear weight, so probably no fracture, but definitely will slow me down. |
| 9/12/2019 |
9:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, clear sunny sky, DBOP |
| 9/13/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.29 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, misty with soft light |
| 9/14/2019 |
9:25 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, soft white sky, blue showing through, DBOP |
| 9/15/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
rain, steady and moderate. I glanced outside around 7 am, and I am pretty sure the patio stones were not wet then. I looked at the map, and the reports near me are much lower, so I am thinking this is due to the fact that I read my gauge much later than most. |
| 9/16/2019 |
8:20 AM |
0.49 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly white to the west, blue overhead. |
| 9/17/2019 |
10:30 AM |
0.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
steady rain. sorry again about the late reading. a week of crises, power outages, and minor and moderate disasters. |
| 9/18/2019 |
9:20 AM |
0.86 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast, not raining now |
| 9/21/2019 |
8:20 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A blue and white sky, a fragile half moon showing herself when the clouds open to blue sky |
| 9/22/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
raining. |
| 9/23/2019 |
8:30 AM |
0.48 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
overcast but bright |
| 9/24/2019 |
10:50 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain |
| 9/25/2019 |
9:25 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Blue sky with soft-edged puffy whites, sunshine, denser clouds to the west |
| 9/26/2019 |
8:20 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
wet grass, white and blue sky |
| 9/27/2019 |
6:00 AM |
0.10 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
dark |