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Weather has been on my mind lately. I'm sure nobody can figure out why. Shall we continue over the orange decorative object for a (probably) short commentary on what's going on in my area?
We're having pretty normal weather for the time of year.
The five hot days we had about a week ago were an aberration, but not one that's unheard of - I remember one other spring with a string of hot days in the nearly 17 years I've lived in Portland, Oregon.
The rain will probably stop just after the Rose Festival ends. It usually does. Last year was wet for longer than that, but August and September were pretty standard.
I've heard a lot of people say that we've had a fairly dry winter. On the other hand, it was mid April before some of the lower levels in the mountains finished their melt. There's still not a whole lot of rock visible on Mount Hood, which is a good thing in relation to the coming fire season - not that I have any idea how deep the snow is, not having any personal interest in winter sports.
The joke west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest is that we have four seasons: rainy, cold and rainy, warm and rainy, and roadwork. Yeah, that about covers what's going on.
I may be putting my foot in it as far as east of the Cascades goes, but from following the news, it does continue to look (to me) like the PNW is the only part of country that's actually having normal weather. I wish everybody else was.