Compare the pic above to the pic taken a couple of months earlier, towards the end of the summer drought, from a slightly different angle.
We had another Pineapple Express come in Tuesday to the Pacific Northwest. This appropriately-named weather phenomenon is an atmospheric river hailing from way southwest in mid-ocean, not too far from Hawaii.
About 50mm rained yesterday, which is a little piss compared with real tropical weather, but out here in passive-aggressive Seattle it’s considered huge. And it does cause problems — Tuesday several crashes blocked most of the region’s main traffic arteries for much of the day. I know b/c it so happened that — for the first time ever, I think - I had to drive from the eastern suburbs back to Seattle precisely at the afternoon commute. It took ~75 minutes driving almost exclusively through side roads.
The nice thing about P’apple Express is that it’s warm. Wednesday morning it was 13.5 degrees C outside, a morning temperature more common for Seattle summers than for Thanksgiving Eve. It peaked at Seatac around 19 degrees, up here on the hillside above Thornton Creek around 17 (for you hopeless Americans: mid 60s). And most of the rain came down Tuesday, not Wednesday, so double bonus :)
Now on Thanksgiving morning, pouring down again though still relatively warm. The rain chickened (or turkeyed) me out of going to a frisbee game, so here I am.
Anyway I digress. Bottom line, the creek is up. Mostly pics below.
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