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Friday morning SJ islands Feb 8, 2019 + Wed on the Skagit flats
Western Washington
It’s currently snowing up here in the islands. Temp 34° with cold ground so it’s sticking this time, unlike last weekend. The forecast is for a few inches. Falling snow is very picturesque, and with all the apocalyptic warnings over the past few days I expect everyone in western Washington is prepared with foodstuffs and other emergency resources. Most folks have plans to get home before the roads are too bad this afternoon — or should, if they can.
It’s pretty rare for us to get much snow up here in the islands so I’m not too worried about it. More significant is the forecast of wind tonight and tomorrow, another outbreak through the Fraser River gap. Those gales can knock down power lines, which creates problems for folks in subfreezing temps. We shall see how all this develops. There are terrific resources to access for forecasting — I like the UW modeling (atmos.uw.edu/...), and wundermap is great for current conditions (www.wunderground.com/...).
No pretty snow pics yet up here, but to have a snowy Bucket I can share some pics from our excursion over to the Skagit river flats on Wednesday. Given the ferry schedule we had a couple of hours of downtime before my appointment in Anacortes so we went down to Fir Island, the delta of the Skagit.
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Snowing lightly right now and starting to stick. Birds are busy at all the feeders.
What’s the nature news in your neighborhood?
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