Posted on 12/26/2021 3:48:02 PM PST by BenLurkin
A winter storm warning remains in effect for southwest Washington, where a cold front pushing in from Canada could meet up with precipitation off the Pacific Ocean for up to 4 more inches of snow through Sunday night.
Temperatures in the Seattle area are still expected to drop into the teens Sunday night, with wind chill that feels as cold as 11 degrees. A little more snow in Seattle is still possible — forecasts predict less than half an inch.
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We got some Christmas winter during the night and the wind has been ferocious all day stacking up drifts and scouring the snow of some areas to add to the drifts. Maybe tomorrow we’ll snow blow. Oh dang. More snow tonight and tomorrow. Oh well, we got nowhere we NEED to be. Oh, wind chill 13 with wind 18 -26 with higher gusts and the static low for Tuesday morning is forecast to be 9.
Pikers. Blessed drought relief here in northern CA. Heavy snow across the Sierra. The winning reporting station so far is Mt. Rose, 15 feet, 7 inches so far this month, with more tonight
I'd hate to be driving over Snoqualmie tonight.
It usually snows once or twice a winter in the Puget Sound area and the lower mainland of BC, and it can snow often and quite heavily in Vancouver, we had over two feet on the ground for much of the 2008-09 Christmas-New Year holiday and into early January. There was also heavy snow at Christmas in 1996. This cold spell is creating some locally heavy snow east of Vancouver near Abbotsford where the bad flooding took place in mid-November. I live a lot further east (about due north of Spokane near the border) and it has been snowing at various intensities here for three days, with over a foot on the ground, but as this is a ski resort that is fairly typical. That super cold air is just easing in here now, it has been held back by a secondary low near Spokane that recently moved off to the east, all other parts of BC were colder than here until the past hour or so. It is near -40 F in parts of northern BC, Alberta and in the Northwest Territories. The coldest reading at this hour is -49F in Nahanni National Park at Rabbit Kettle Hot Springs. Those are probably surrounded by thick ice but the water stays well above 80F in the winter anyway (I visited there in the summer of 1974 and the water was toasty warm although not “hot” as in burn yourself hot).
It’s not too bad. There is now a light breeze kicking up, and only about 2-3” on the ground.
The cat hates it though. I let him out and he refused to leave the carport. He sat there for three hours telling the snow to get lost. Then he got a fussy with me for leaving him out there, even though I had told him he wouldn’t like it, and I was too busy to play doorman.
24 Dec: BBC: Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia
By Marco Silva
Wikipedia has for so long been plagued by climate change denial. But a group of dedicated volunteers around the world is working tirelessly to keep the deniers at bay.
David Tetta lives in northern California, in the kind of close-knit community where neighbours just wander into each other’s homes - during our interview, he breaks off for a second to shoo one of them out of the room.
It was while chatting to his neighbours that David first thought of volunteering to edit Wikipedia. In 2019, around the time wildfires were raging across the state, climate change was coming up more and more often as a topic...
David was well-placed to study the subject, having worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for more than 30 years...
David is part of a small but dedicated group of volunteers who have made it their mission to curate and protect articles about climate change on English Wikipedia. And they’re not afraid to pick a fight.
“I’ll send [the deniers] a note on their personal page on Wikipedia saying, ‘This is vandalism, this could have consequences,’” says David. “Sometimes these people get kicked off Wikipedia.”...
“We are lucky with a large editor base,” says Dutch volunteer Femke Nijsse.
She’s come to be regarded as one of the most influential voices within the small community of Wikipedia editors specialising in climate change.
If you have ever visited the main Wikipedia article on climate change, chances are that you read some of Femke’s words - she’s the user who’s contributed the most to that article by far...
Wikipedia doesn’t have a policy vetoing climate change denial, but there are policies that insist you have to cite quality sources, which tends to weed unscientific content out...
Listen to The Denial Files: ‘We fight climate denial on Wikipedia’ (LINK - 19mins) from the BBC World Service.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-59452614?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
We are the northernmost major city in the US, but don’t have much snow - just about 8 or 9 inches a year, on average, because of the warm Pacific Current. People who move here from the Midwest think we are ridiculous about it, i.e., how we get so excited about it and how unprepared we are for it.
Had about 8 inches here a couple of miles north of Seattle. It’s going to be cold for a few days, so the snow will hang around.
I lived in Kyoto for years in the 2000’s and it would maybe snow once a winter.
It snowed there a week ago, last night, and will snow in a few days.
Things are changing.
In the early 90’s I drove through snow from Seattle to Reno the whole way, similar to how it was this weekend. But that was before gorebull warming
I graduated from high school, in Southwest Oklahoma, in 1969. I can recall playing sandlot football many times there, in late November through mid-January, because the temperatures were in the 80's.
This is not an uncommon event. Happens quite frequently actually for about 3 months out of the year. It’s called winter. We get snow in July too :)
I’ve worked outside in Indiana for 50 years
I’ve been snowed in on Christmas Day and a couple years later riding motorcycle on Dec 25th
Does that Canadian cold front have a Covid-vaccine card so that it can cross the U.S. border?
Four inches of snow?
That’s all?
Good. Let the protesters freeze.
I can attest that from Blaine down to Olympia they got hammered. 4 to 8 inches.
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Seems a out normal here 20 miles SW of Seattle about 8inches.
I snow just skipped last year...if I recall correctly.
Never mind the protesters - what does this do to the homeless? I’m always surprised NYC has so many homeless because it really is a miserable climate; in addition to snow/freezing temperatures, Hollywood never really shows how much rain the NYC metro area really gets (not Seattle levels, but more than films would indicate). There is a reason there are flight schools in Florida or parts of California but not here; there would be too many canceled lessons...
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