The leaves are changing colors this past week with less daylight and chilly temperatures. I was driving on Northeast 134th Street in Salmon Creek the other day, and the maples are a bright, glorious red color. Things are looking like October all of a sudden.
We’ll enjoy mostly dry weather today and Monday, and then we have a giant pool of cold unstable air mass over us through Saturday. That will bring us showers at times, snow down to the passes, maybe a foot or more at Timberline, and you may have to stoke the fire if you haven’t already this fall.
Forecast models show highs only in the 50s all week except tomorrow when we climb to 70 degrees or so. Beginning of the rainy season? Hard to tell but most indications point toward colder and wetter weather the last half of the month.
I discovered dozens of woolly bear caterpillars recently. The consensus is we are in for a chilly wet winter. Maybe like last year? Maybe snow? If La Nina stays in the picture, there’s a good chance of those things this winter. Not what you wanted to hear?
