the fire-hose awakens

An atmospheric river will bring some impressively wet conditions to the west coast..
Somewhere.

Today's forecast for Thu PM - Sat PM is shown here. Oregon and our corner of Wash. are definitely in the model's sights as of now! Being of tropical origins it doesn't bode too well for snowpack improvement.. but for rainfall deficits it is quite the change.

No doubt models will do some more fine-tuning in the coming days; we'll be here when reality arrives.

Update: stronger now!

Final score: 4.91 inches in five days, with 2.12" on the 20th. Another great forecast for a large storm almost a week in advance; maps were putting us very near the 5-inch line on the map.