Same system that brought 3 ft of snow and 60 mph winds to Montana, I presume?
We went to 4 wheel drive this year with a new Subaru CrossTrek plug-in hybrid. They say with 4WD you can get by even in our hilly environs without snow tires, but out of an abundance of caution I'm going in later in October for snows for it. I feel in my bones it will be a long winter this year in upstate NY. Hope I am wrong, but ready if I'm not.
no mention of snow here on van isle. golfed today in shirtsleeves. still will be glad to be heading south in a few weeks.
It looks a little blurry, but it's still a magnificent landscape. I live in Michigan, and the snow will soon be falling here as well.
This looks like an impressionist painting. Great.
Fall has come early here but I think even earlier on your side of the Cascade Curtain.
That's a lot of the reason we don't live in WA anymore. I'm not sure it 'rained' by AZ standards the who!e 10 years we were up there -- but it was gray and drizzled almost every day.
The people and lifestyle were great but we got very tired of it being fall all year round. It's nice to have four seasons again. Ha, ha.
I live in sunny Eastern Washington. Second photo: sunrise in Wenatchee, 12/28/2018.
The incontinence of Seattle," I call the endless gray drizzle.
@LiterateHiker We don't miss that in the rain shadow we are in. The one negative thing we can't control is the hours of darkness in the winter.
@LiterateHiker I'll grant you Eastern WA.
I used to get homesick every time we went that direction. There are some things about WA that we miss.
A couple of our closest friends used to spend as much time as they could at 'YakiVegas'. That was their favorite getaway.
I love the cold and snow of winter. it's just awesome, plus i love driving my jeep around in it. but in spokane, people can't drive, so you ahve to watch out for the other guy alot.
Ah, Montana got three feet of snow this weekend. [krtv.com]
I saw that this morning
93 here in nc. I would like something in between these two temps....
And it was quite humid here in the foothills...
@Heidi68 its crazy hot here.... what was todays temp there?
@Bigwavedave my thermometer says 95° - it is under a tree about 25' away from the house... My dad said it was 83° on the mountain above my house.