So we had 1/2 inch on July 5-6, then a mere trace for sixty-plus days - then just under 1/2" the 28-29th of September. On to October.. hm, this looks familiar. A week of dry days, and now 85° would be almost twenty degrees above normal! This won't last long; it's October after all. I always think a typical October starts around 80°, then a small storm and 70 is a challenge, then another storm, and 65° is a memory. By Halloween even sixty is in the past (except for the infamous tropic/pineapple storms of winter) and it's either raining or foggy with mist. Cue the leaf drop!
I mad-rushed our deck to completion this past week, and O I Hurt. A couple days of pressure washing, then a day's rental of a heavy-duty sander with a weight collar, then a fast day of staining before those two wet days could soak the vulnerable wood. Timing was excellent, but my aches are numerous. Clearly the next project needs to be the pump on our empty hot tub..
We picked up a new 60-volt electric lawn mower, which didn't quite get the time to finish the yard due to the deck becoming a weather priority. Looks like next week will get that finished.. followed by renting a brush cutter to reclaim a goodly chunck of property from the wild and crazy blackberry vines. Several of those are attempting to close our (and our neighbor's!) driveway, so the rental beast will make quick work of it. Bummer that I'll be doing it in shorts and a tank top though: those stickers will hurt!! :^o
Update - forecast temps have dropped a bit, so overalls will be available in the Sticker War! 😬
Update II - still nice, possibly a few 80° temps again?
HOWEVER:
Note that by the 21st, autumn arrives wearing its grey costume. Cliff Mass at u.Wash expects the End to come that day as well via the ECMWF ensembles - as it generally does at some point after the 15th.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/10/northwest-winter-starts-on-october-21.html
Update fini - forecast is still holding true. We didn't reach 80°, but we did hit 77° on the 15th!
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