New mail drop at Islandale/Southender Store
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Lopez islanders now have the convenienceof a drive up mail drop box located at Islandale/Southender Store.
May 11, 2012
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Mysterious Ocean Precipitation Under Clear Skies
For a number of days, starting on Friday, the new Langley Hill coastal radar has been showing lots of precipitation offshore, some if it heavy. Yet the skies have been clear or nearly so. Then on Wednesday the rain disappeared. What is going on? And let me warn you now...these mystery showers are going to...
U.S. Climate Versus Weather Computers: Climate Wins
Why is the U.S. government provide hugely more computer resources for climate prediction than weather prediction? And why is far more emphasis given to climate prediction research than weather prediction research and development?In some past blogs I talked about the unfortunate lack of computer resources available to the National Weather Service (NWS), resulting in the...
Cold Records with Warm Temperatures
On Saturday it became toasty here in Northwest, with many locations gets into the 70s and lower 80s. Yet a number of locations exprienced daily minimum temperature records in the morning--here is the proof from the National Climatic Data Center records website. The blue dot indicate a tie for the record and stations with an...
Summer in May
It is a climatological oddity of Northwest meteorology that we often get a period of very warm, dry weather sometime in the second or third week of May, followed by a retreat into the dismal June Gloom. Well folks, we are about to have the heat wave--one that will bring near 80F temps to Seattle,...
The Windiest Place along the West Coast
As the U.S. West Coast enters the warm season, one area is getting very windy, particularly during the afternoon and evenings. Day after day this region will be hit by 20-30 mph winds, often with higher gusts. A region, where the afternoon is often too windy to be on the beach, with wind-driven sandy stinging...
Last parent meeting in the series
Thursday, May 24 marks the last in this school year’s series of parent meetings, sponsored by the Lopez Island Family Resource Center and the Lopez Island Prevention Coalition.
May 9, 2012
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Soil Temperatures and Gardening
The question that many amateur gardeners like myself often ask is:Why are my seeds not germinating and rotting in the soil?When will the soil be warm enough to sow my seeds or transplant my plants? Well, I don't pretend to be an expert in this, but I suspect it has something to do so with...
Warmth Returns
You don't need to be a meteorologist to know that we have been substantially cooler than normal the past five days--on both sides of the Cascades. Here is a sample from Seattle and Pasco. Roughly 5-10F below normal on the max temps. The reason? A persistent trough over the Northwest, as shown by this upper level...
Pioneer Weather Complaints
Some things never change.One can not be considered a Northwesterner if you don't grouse about our endless cool, showery weather during Spring. And it turns out that our pioneer ancestors---more than 150 years ago--were doing the same thing.Let's go back to 1855 and the town of Steilacoom on Puget Sound's waters. In a hard-hitting commentary...
Lopez Island Garden Club’s Plant Sale, May 10
The Annual Lopez Island Garden Club’s highly anticipated Plant Sale is Thursday, May 10, 10 a.m.-noon at Woodmen Hall. Past years have had the lines forming early, rain or shine, and gardeners bursting through the doors, right at 10, racing to get their first choices from the wonderful plants donated by other gardeners from all over the island. The selection of plants this year includes, trees, shrubs, perennials, groundcovers, veggie and berry starts, and a variety of native species.
May 2, 2012
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