[tubebender]

It's 63 degrees here in the Arcata-Eureka area this morning. It is possible that Ore and Wash could have a major flood in the making if this turns into a "Pineapple Connection" and dumps warm rain on all that snow. They are saying it is setting up very similar to the "100 Year" flood of 1964...

[glock rocks]

Good morning, tubebender.

Not good. Maybe Oregon will share some of their Arctic air with y'all.

I think we're on the verge of being done with our five year drought. Snowpack is up, and it just keeps getting whiter in the mountains. Thankfully, even if we have a fairly quick thaw in the spring, the ground is thirsty enough to soak up a bunch before we, um, go surfing.

[Grampa Dave]

All this rain is screwing up another Steelhead winter run.

I think that since 1978, we have been through at least 5 hundred year floods.

My fishing buddies in the Ashland/Medford upper Rogue area have been snow bound several times since Christmas with more snow in at least a decade for this time period.

So if the Pineapple Express hits from your area up to about Gold Beach and goes Eastward, you and others had best strap a kayak on your back.

One of the guys in our Fly Club ignored the weather warning and had a close call on the Smith River in the past week. I didn't get to talk to him after the meeting, but he learned his lesson. Yet one of the Steelhead nuts in the club was still planning a trip up to the Smith and Chetco today with his fishing buddy.