WINTER STORM WATCH:
AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH THROUGH WESTERN WASHINGTON ON SATURDAY...PULLING IN MUCH COLDER AIR IN ITS WAKE. THE FRONT WILL FIRST ARRIVE OVER THE NORTH INTERIOR EARLY IN THE MORNING...WHERE FRASER OUTFLOW WINDS WILL PICK UP ON SATURDAY MORNING...BRINGING IN VERY COLD AND VERY WINDY CONDITIONS. AS THE FRONT SLIPS FURTHER SOUTH DURING THE DAY WITH UNSETTLED CONDITIONS CONTINUING... SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FOR MUCH OF THE LOWLANDS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WESTERN WASHINGTON SHOULD EXPERIENCE THE COLDEST WEATHER IN A COUPLE OF DECADES DURING THE WEEK AHEAD. PLEASE BE PREPARED FOR AN UNUSUALLY PROLONGED AND INTENSE PERIOD OF WINTER WEATHER.
What could be better? Our plans for today were to drive out the Mount Baker Highway, and select a tree from one of the Christmas Tree Farms that line the road. The last couple of years, we have just trudged through the snow on our own property and cut a likely candidate. Going to a grocery store and picking one of the bailed trees that lean against the garden shop walls seemed too tame. I at least wanted to go to the source if we couldn’t cut our own.
People have been talking about the winter storm warnings since Tuesday. It was only pouring rain when we left this morning, but possible snow was predicted by afternoon, also high wind and freezing temperatures. I guess a lot of folks would have opted out on driving towards Mount Baker on a day that could turn real nasty. We had the opposite reaction. After two years of northern B.C. winters, we wanted to see snow again, and we weren’t disappointed… while filling the car at the Nooksack Reservation, snowflakes began to fall and flurries continued the further east we drove. Bob put the Jeep into four-wheel drive and began to sing Christmas songs… amazing what a little snow can do. We stopped at the Red Mountain Christmas Tree Farm, and chose a 7-foot noble fir. It was shaken, bailed, and tied onto the roof of our Jeep. It now stands in its place of honor, in front of the Palladian windows, miniature lights the only decoration. Jeff will leave in the morning – trying to get out before the Arctic front finally arrives.
What could be better? Our plans for today were to drive out the Mount Baker Highway, and select a tree from one of the Christmas Tree Farms that line the road. The last couple of years, we have just trudged through the snow on our own property and cut a likely candidate. Going to a grocery store and picking one of the bailed trees that lean against the garden shop walls seemed too tame. I at least wanted to go to the source if we couldn’t cut our own.
People have been talking about the winter storm warnings since Tuesday. It was only pouring rain when we left this morning, but possible snow was predicted by afternoon, also high wind and freezing temperatures. I guess a lot of folks would have opted out on driving towards Mount Baker on a day that could turn real nasty. We had the opposite reaction. After two years of northern B.C. winters, we wanted to see snow again, and we weren’t disappointed… while filling the car at the Nooksack Reservation, snowflakes began to fall and flurries continued the further east we drove. Bob put the Jeep into four-wheel drive and began to sing Christmas songs… amazing what a little snow can do. We stopped at the Red Mountain Christmas Tree Farm, and chose a 7-foot noble fir. It was shaken, bailed, and tied onto the roof of our Jeep. It now stands in its place of honor, in front of the Palladian windows, miniature lights the only decoration. Jeff will leave in the morning – trying to get out before the Arctic front finally arrives.
Hanging on while the tree gets shaken.
Tying the tree down.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
Tying the tree down.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...... PLM
posted by Looking for Hope | 9:41 PM
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