the fbc weather blog.

i've been a bit crotchety of late regarding the forecasting of weather in western washington. the tv news weatherforecasterpersons have been decidedly doom-and-gloom and the *ahem* drier avalanche center and noaa forecasts have been decidedly, well, undecided. last saturday was forecast to be wet and not all that awesome, yet turned out to be sunny and real damn warm. like 67 degrees in enumclaw, which is precisely somewhere around 22 degrees above normalish temps. i was worried a bit about sweating through all my one layer. sunday (yesterday? it's so hard to keep these things straight.) was forecast to be warm and breezy and sunny but turned out cool and overcastlike. today was again sposeta be completely icky with an inch of water falling during the day, and yet most of the day was dry.
in the spirit of all this, i am offering my own mountain forecast, liberally formed from nwac.us:
saturday, 9 january: warm and awesome. go skiing. no, wait. . .think about going skiing, but stay home and mow the lawn. i don't want to share the lifts with you.
sunday, 10 january: overcast, with periods of overcast and ominous clouds that amount to nothing. fun skiing between 12.39 and 2.14 pm.
monday, 11 january: pissing rain for a while, then stopping entirely for no reason at all, with extended periods of ominous overcast.
(for those of you who don't read nwac.us at night, you may not get the joke.)
tuesday, 12 january: there will be blobs of moisture coming off the ocean. it may fall on you. actually, it will fall on you. no, wait. it won't. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. i don't really know. actually, don't get out of bed. it'll be better that way.
wednesday, 13 january: it may cool down. i don't know, really, but i want to get your hopes up cos dashing high hopes will be more fun for me than dashing more tempered hopes. check back tomorrow and i may have changed my mind.

water content for the period ending at 4AM of the day listed (cos i'd rather confuse you than help you):

ski area/tuesday/wednesday
mt baker/lots./probly more than that.
washington pass/i don't know why i care cos it's closed for the winter.
stevens pass/really? i don't even believe in stevens pass.
snoqualmie pass/pissing./still pissing.
crystal mtn/.10-1"/.10-2" or not.
white pass/don't care. seattle folk couldn't find it with a GPS.
paradise/8-10"/10-22"
mt st helens/okay. now i'm just listing mountains.

anyway, hope this clears things up.