{"id":27559,"date":"2016-10-12T08:08:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2016-10-13T05:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:15:43","slug":"in-the-northwet-here-comes-the-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/in-the-northwet-here-comes-the-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"In the NorthWET: Here comes the punch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigh. It’s that time of year in the coastal NorthWET. Summer wasn’t sterling. Late August brought early foreshadowings of the rainy season. But on October 1, somebody flipped the rain switch.<\/p>\n

We actually got a little break from 24-hour-a-day rain this week. Sun yesterday, even. Not until Thursday was the deluge due back — and due in a big, big way. But now Wunderground says forget today. That big solid blue band? That’s something well beyond a few days of unpleasant dog-walking.:<\/p>\n

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For this area, these are big, big rain totals. Unlike what you guys in the semi-tropics or the thunderstorm belt get, we’ll have rain that goes on forever but doesn’t amount to much in the weatherperson’s gauge. But this is atmospheric-river time. Those tropical fist-punches are slamming us again.<\/p>\n

We’ve already had this one:<\/p>\n

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Now this one’s headed in — and won’t stop punching any time soon.<\/p>\n

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The new one, with those fat totals and high winds, is likely to bring mudslides and fallen trees.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I know. This is just a little beyond what’s routine in these parts (though these pineapple express clobberings do seem to be increasing the last several years). But I can still whine about it, can’t I?<\/p>\n

And you dear readers in southern Oregon or extreme northern California might get to whine even louder.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Our most trusted weather guru Cliff Mass says this next blow<\/a> is not so normal. “Historic,” he says. Possibly. With potentially hurricane-level gusts on the coast. Going to go on for a long time, too. The storm striking us Saturday could be as strong as the strongest one ever recorded in the NW. A monster, Mass writes. His head is spinning, he confesses.<\/p>\n

Of course, such things have been said before and (gasp) not been proven by reality. There is still a lot of uncertainty involving storm tracks and such. But we shall see and we shall whine. If I didn’t have a dog, I’d plan a week of cozy huddling. <\/p>\n

Glad I just polished up the emergency supplies, too. More canned food. New batteries in the flashlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sigh. It’s that time of year in the coastal NorthWET. Summer wasn’t sterling. Late August brought early foreshadowings of the rainy season. But on October 1, somebody flipped the rain switch. We actually got a little break from 24-hour-a-day rain this week. Sun yesterday, even. Not until Thursday was the deluge due back — and due in a big, big way. But now Wunderground says forget today. That big solid blue band? That’s something well beyond a few days of unpleasant dog-walking.: For this area, these are big, big rain totals. Unlike what you guys in the semi-tropics or the…<\/p>\n

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