Not this year yet 
Interestingā¦
We are in a less variable period for high temps, but we have been well above 1-SD above the mean the last couple days at around 65 and the average is 40. 1-SD is 14 degrees in late Marchā¦ So really extremely variable as to year to year difference from the average.
Iād like to have that kind of cool here.Brady
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We had 2 days in the 50Fsā¦this weekend looks mid 50Fs and sunshineā¦itāll be spring fever around here. I was out in a tshirt the past few days. Grass everywhere except the most shaded spots.
Extended looks seasonal for what i can seeā¦not warm spells thru mid month, but nothing iād call cold either.
More rain this morning, and some more due for this evening. But that should be it be a few days. Itās going to drop down to more seasonal temps tomorrow (hi 40s/lo 30s), so that ought to slow the budding process in some of the trees a bit.
Grass is still getting greener tho. Looks like itās even growing a bit. Donāt wanna get the mower out just yet.
I have some friends in East Washington and Iām told itās seriously hot there in the summer. Being that Iām in the wine and liquor business I finally learned it is vastly different from the East to the West of Washingtonā¦damn beautiful place though. And producing some of the world best winesā¦
Must be a bad storm in store for New England, since the Weather Channel is pre-empting their usual 10 hours of pointless reality shows with the latest Norāeaster doom porn. Cue Jim Cantore freaking out about thunder-snowā¦
@mrsg47, @Johnthecook, @mamuang, @SMC_zone6, @BobVance, @JinMA and others up there, batten down the hatches!!
Seriously, I hope yāall come through this alright, could be nasty.
BTW, whatās up with giving winter weather systems names now?? This monster is called Riley. 
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Yes,eastern Washington is mostly desert,because of the Cascade Mt. range that separates the two areas and filters the amount of rainfall coming from the Pacific.
Where there is irrigation though,there usually is no problem growing things on the other side. Brady
The high tides are gonna be aāBā. Erosion bad this year anyway. Our town is just in the process of building new stairs on our beach.
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Thanks for the well wishes, Bob. Sooner windy out there this morning. My orchard has a perimeter of 100+ year old trees, so inevitably in storm like this branches come down and something gets nailed.
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Right now, we get lot of rain and wind. Our area is in higher elevation than John and SMC so it will turn to snow later today into tomorrow.
Like SMC said, strong wind and broken branches falling on my trees are my concern. My next door neighbor had a dead tree that he does not want to spend money to have it removed. Small broken branches have fallen on my trees a few times. If bigger ones fell, it would cause serious damage to my trees.
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We too are enduring the current norāeasterā¦kinda like a winter hurricane. It is skimming north of us but we are getting high winds (>60mph) gusts. Lots of power outages. Not sure how the bloominā fruit trees will take this.
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Thanks for the concern, dood, but we seem to be doing ok here. A bit slushy and windy but nothing too out of the ordinary for early March. Maybe itās worse as you head toward the coast? Sounds like John, Steve, and Mamuang are getting hit a bit harder than we are. Or maybe it just hasnāt hit here quite yet?
Kind of happy that I got the city to come out and prune the old street trees in front of our house last fall, though. They could have lost some big branches in a storm like this. (Our fruit trees are very young and pretty sheltered, so Iām not too worried about them at this point.)
Hope everybody else is doing ok out there.
PS: Riley is an incredibly lame storm name. In my personal opinion, the people who name storms need to throw out the āMost Popular Baby Names of 2007ā book and start talking with the people who come up with names for professional wrestlers or something. Maybe get lucha libre masks for the Weather Channel announcers?
PPS: Just to clarify, Riley is a perfectly fine name (I have a cousin named Riley, as it happens). Just not for a storm. Also, thanks to @JustAnne4 for that info about the naming protocol and about the situation in DC (see below). Hope everyone down that way is doing ok!
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Now you are thinking; that would certainly help with their ratings!
We are sunny and seventyās here in South Central Texas. First two consecutive sunny non foggy misty drizzly days we have had in weeks; and Iām loving it!
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Yeah, having old rickety trees towering over your little trees would bring plenty of angst, Iām sure. We get plenty of wind on this hillside, but thankfully our new trees arenāt close to any older taller ones. We have a treeline on the north end of our farm that helps keep the north winds from being much of an issue, but our worst winds come from the south. Most of my new trees arenāt staked most of the time, they seem to have adapted well to the conditions. I guess theyāve put down good roots.
We have had some big trees fall on our property though, one was a 50ā+ tall maple that split and fell over onto our phone lines. I still havenāt got it all cut up. We also had a tall tree split high up and come crashing down onto our driveway. That took a whike to clean up. Our little 16in Stihl chainsaw comes in handy in times like those.
We do have a Winesap that is over 10ft tall that has leaned over onto its cage a couple times when we had very heavy rain and high winds, so it has to be lashed to a stake sometimes.
Yeah, naming ordinary winter storm systems is lame, probably done for ratings. Next step will be naming summer storm systems. Giving them wrasslinā names would be a good idea.
What I have observed is that they name ones with a strong circulation pattern around a low pressure cell. This one is equivalent to a Cat 2 hurricane. My daughter said they closed DC. Bridges and low area highways are closed.
There is a specific naming protocol for these.
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We are getting hammered here. Gusty winds. Took me two hours to get home. Normally 25 min. Came home to find two tees down on the property. One fell on the roof. We had just gone through a nightmare of a remodel and the roof was brand new.
Neighborās tree fell right in front of my eyes. I freaked out.
Too worried t lo sleep at home and no power, heat or water at home so we checked into hotel. Turned out they donāt have power either. They are working on getting the generator up. We decided itās safer to stay here even without power.
Ohā¦ and I got a big crack in my windshield. A snow plowed dumped a giant pile of snow on it. Probably from that. Not sure what happened otherwise.
Hopefully wind will die down and no more trees will come down tonight.
Sad thing is I had discussed those maple trees on a thread here last week and got a quote to cut one and trim the rest. Another week and those wouldāve been gone.
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Wow. Sorry to hear. What a day, @Susu.
We are still having those gusts up to 60 mph. Supposed to continue into tomorrow. Scarier at night 'cause you canāt see what those sounds are. Those winds woke me up last night, and you canāt go back to sleepā¦just listeningā¦until dawn comes and you can make sure all is OK.
Hereās hoping your life gets back to normal soon.
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