Well as the old saying goes, “It is all downhill from here.” And we will apply that to the weather forecast for the next week or so as we go from wonderful to wet.
Slow change today as the weather machine starts its gears but it will be over the weekend when things get dicey. Possible windstorm somewhere in Western Washington, most likely along the coast and north to British Columbia, heavy rains and eventually good snows in the Cascades down to pass levels or below the first of next week. Sunday might be a good day to head to the ocean beaches for some good old storm watching as you brave the elements.
Soaking up the hazy sunshine on Wednesday it was difficult to imagine such a change in the offing. It may very well be the start of our fall rainy season is upon us. Earlier I was thinking it would hold off until the end of the month but of course nature has its own way of doing things.
I always enjoy looking back at what I was writing about in years past. On Oct. 22, 2000, I penned this, “I mentioned in Tuesday’s column that we would have a good chance for a real soaker later in the week. It was more like a frog strangler but it was a good soaking rain. I recorded over one inch of rain late Thursday night into Friday morning. That was our heaviest rainfall of the fall season. Checking the Internet weather cams early Saturday morning, Government Camp had several inches of snow as well as all of the Washington and Oregon mountain passes. This should be enough to get the juices going of skiers and snowboarders.”
