There’s no other way to put it, friends. The heat wave in the Pacific Northwest is unprecedented and ugly. It reminds me way too much of summers in Dallas – except in Dallas I had (mostly) central air conditioning and ceiling fans. Here at Casa Sammamish we have a floor unit air conditioner in the …
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Jul 01
Welcome to Februly
It was a cold, wet spring here. Many wags took to calling last month Junuary. This morning I heard the furnace kick on. I thought, “What the…?!? It’s July 1!” So if last month was Junuary, this month is Februly. I daresay when the heat and drought descend in August, we’ll miss the cool weather.
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Oct 19
Light in the Dark Season
Seattle is in the midst of what the weather geeks call the Dark Season. Rain is forecast for the foreseeable future. My pepper and petunia plants are waterlogged and should be disposed of if it ever stops raining long enough for me to do so without soaking the floors. Still there is light. The leaves are …
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Sep 07
Lightning
Seattle doesn’t get much violent weather. Tornadoes are rare and hurricanes are non-existent. Tonight we’re getting a hellacious thunderstorm. The University of Washington football game is on weather delay due to the storm. To add insult to injury, the power’s out at the stadium. We’re currently getting the storm here. With luck, we won’t have …
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Sep 15
Welcome to the Rainy Season
Last winter and spring were very wet. We just slogged through one of the hottest and driest summers on record. Now the rain is back. How long will it take before the locals start complaining about the rain? [Note: This is the 500th post for Edible Thoughts! Thanks for reading and following along with the …
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Dec 05
Snowflake Freakout
As I said earlier this year, the Seattle area doesn’t do well with snow. Neither do the drivers. This is a source of amusement to my family in the Snow Belt, and a source of frustration to us. The forecast was for snow today. I opted to take the bus to and from work, since …
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Oct 16
Storm? What Storm?
The Seattle area was supposed to get 65 mph winds from a dying typhoon last night. Fortunately, this did not come to pass. We did get plenty of rain, but we never lost power. This morning I found a couple of puny branches from the big ass Douglas fir on our upper deck and the …
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Oct 31
Riding the Pineapple Express
We don’t get many thunderstorms or tornadoes hereabouts. In winter we’ll get an occasional snow or ice storm that paralyzes the region, due to our challenging topography and the lack of snow removal equipment. Our main weird weather phenomenon is the “Pineapple Express”, a warm front that comes off the Pacific Ocean and foments chaos …
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