Rain Is Coming!
A graphic from the National Weather Service showing the amount of predicted rain during Storm 1 and Storm 2.
Rain is on the way for northwest California, with two back-to-back systems set to bring wet weather through midweek, according to the National Weather Service in Eureka.
The first wave of rain is expected late tonight through Monday evening, with totals ranging from around a quarter inch in the southern areas to over an inch in the northwest. Those in the mountains are likely to see the highest amounts. A second, more widespread storm is forecast to arrive Tuesday and continue through Wednesday.
Forecasters say confidence is high in the initial round of rain, though totals could shift slightly depending on the track of the storm system. Heavier rainfall amounts could lead to increased runoff in some areas.
Expect some sunshine by Thursday afternoon. Friday through Sunday looks dry, too, with temps in the sixties.
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IMHO: Wait ! That is ‘The Week of No Cars’ !!!
Oh my gawd. Get some photos of the politicos out getting soaked !!!
Hey… don’t forget the 30 mph winds !
Having a little bit of rain during the Week with no Cars is actually ideal.
If the idea is for policy-makers to understand what it’s like for people without cars,
we’d want them to think about ways to help people deal with the weather.
The timing of this rain is also ideal because it will help our Fall and Winter gardens establish. I just finished planting most of my Winter crops so I’m excited about this.
I also love the clear sunny days after these early storms.
This is definitely one of my favorite seasons.
I mean, it’s… Oh, geez! I’m sorry. You were complaining about how our weather sucks and here I am interrupting your rant with all this positivity.
How rude of me.
Maybe I’ll take some time to think about my manners when I’m out hunting mushrooms next weekend. This rain will be great for that.
Um – what did you plant? How far from the coast are you? Couple miles from the bay up Fickle Hill Road, what can I still plant?
Greens do well here during the winter.
I’m at 470 ft and a few miles inland.
I have lettuce, kale, chard, broccoli, fennel, favas and onions going now.
They’ll need to have already been started. Probably too late for seeds.
I plant garlic cloves the first weekend of October.
Yes, garlic, now!
Quit raining on his parade.
Yes fava beans.Soo hardy. I have stuck beans in the ground in December and never bother with them but got a bumper crop come spring time. I usually wait a little later than October before planting onions and garlic but I guess it doesn’t matter.
I love ‘em’ but such a pain to deal with before you can eat them. Fava beans that is. I don’t recal ever seeing them for sale in a store.
Lactarius deliciosa (tasty milk caps) is usually the first I find. A delicacy in Europe but not everyone in the U.S. knows and appreciates them.
Very easy to identify.
I like to dry them, also very good dried and then powdered, to be added to soups, sauces, etc..
Nice to see umbrella weather return. I’ll be doing my usual walks, but staying closer to sea level. The first rains are generally not extreme along the coast; however, the mountains and ocean waters can tell a different story. And my projections could be all wet.
Of course 2-3″ here in King Range, as per usual. 11pm tonight through 5am tomorrow morning.
I looked at King Range today from the Noyo Headlands.
The clouds and birds were telling the story.
Wind has brought dark clouds now.
Smells like rain.
Latest forecast pushes to rainfall to tomorrow, reduces to 1-2″.
Can see big river off coast
Radar https://www.ventusky.com/?p=39.5;-129.1;4&l=radar
Got it! Ran around all day getting things picked up and under cover, and basically only got to covering or pulling in firewood at dark, with a flashlight. Ha! Well, it’s not really wet for reals until Samhain/Halloween here, so i can still get a bunch done in the coming month, and anything getting soaked in this storm will… sort of… dry out. Once November hits, nothing dries out for months.
Ah, the scampering about. I know it well.
“Just one more load of kindling!”
Checking the progress of the rosehips.
They need at least one frost.
Remembering that after Samhain, all blackberries belong to the devil.
Didn’t know that about the rosehips. I have only eaten them one at a time from the bush and didn’t notice a difference in flavor in terms of time/frost. The frost sweetens them?
Yes, like carrots.
I mostly harvest them for tea and jelly.
And fire cider.
And of course, the odd bowl of potpourri.
Yes, that river was moving in when I was there. I wanted to paint it.
The old timers walking their dogs on the headlands all had something to say about the weather.
I love Ventusky, it has been my go-to for years.
So fascinating to watch world weather, clouds, etc..
I’ll be happy with even an inch.
Last year’s rainfall was so ideal, coming in amounts so perfectly measured. Can we hope for that again?
Yes, why not.
You of the King Range! I know i will meet you someday. Were you at the Ettersburg party yesterday? I was there all day, wonderful place, party, people.
My forecast for Petrolia shows it not beginning ’til 5-8 a.m. on Monday (tomorrow), but the Mon. and Tues. together forecast add up to 1.6″ (this from Weather Underground)– so, probably yes, about 2″. But i am down by A.Way. You will get more.
Oh wait, you’re saying you might get the 2-3″ before 5 a.m. tomorrow? Wow, well, batten down the hatches!
I wasn’t in Ettersburg, no. I like to keep to myself here in the mountains.
Yes, latest forecast has reduced to 1-2 inches beginning 5am Monday.
Very nice down by AW Way by Buck’s place. Nice curve in the River there. Squaw Creek is beautiful.
Yeah, Bear Trap & Honeydew Creek will shade AW Way, trap a lot of the rain.
Just had a quiet little memorial for Buck up on his Graveyard Hill, across from the Miner ranch and the Grange. I live downstream very close to those places.
Saturday was the Frenches’ apple pressing.
I welcome the coming cooler weather, baking bread when it’s 45 outside is so much more enjoyable than when it’s 50 degrees hotter.
But I shall miss the hummingbirds, even though this year I have been their slave.
A neighbor with a huge station moved away, and his gang all flew down the street to me.
Been averaging more than a gallon of syrup per day. I buy the 25# bags of Costco sugar.
I recently put up tiny travel ads of Cancun on the porch.
I think they’re starting to take the hint.
“Buh bye, sucker! See you next year!! Oh and hey, thanks!!”
That’s a LOT of sugar!!! What fun to watch trilling dives and scoops of so many!
It is a daily delight. I’ll sit with coffee on the porch and take in the zooming madness. I wish they were not quite so territorial and contentious, they waste their energy (it seems to me) driving one another away, when there is plenty for all. But that’s their nature. The cats, helpless to reach them, will sit with me, rapt with desire, thinking their red thoughts.
There are two varieties, Anna’s (named after Anna Messena, Duchess of Rivoli) and the coppery Allen’s. There were many juveniles this summer (of course, with such an abundance of food!) so I complacently expect another massive tribe next year. Their collective name is a charm. Isn’t that charming? Yesterday on the coast I saw an unkindness of ravens and a kettle of hawks.
https://arapahoelibraries.org/blogs/post/names-for-groups-of-animals/
The best hummer moments are at dusk, when they all come in to tank up for the night. I will stand amongst them and they swarm around me like bees. Or X-wing starfighters.
Enjoy the rain, my friend.
That’s the bummer with hummer feeding stations; if the maintainer quits, that’s it. I like using natural plant feeders even if they are non-native, but not invasive. Red Hot Poker is favored by hummers. Somebody between Petrolia and A. Way Park has Nerium oleander shrubs planted right by the road. Oleander is one of the most poisonous plants you can grow. That’s why the bushes, covered in white flowers, look so nice. They kill insects, birds, browsers, Even the compost can be toxic. A total disaster if they escape. Perhaps through friendship and diplomacy, those good folks could be offered replacement shrubs and volunteers to do the work. I would consider contributing funds, if not labor to that project.
Maintaining a wild bird feeding station is a big responsibility, not to be undertaken lightly. I take it on very seriously. Between the hummers, wild birds and my feral cat colony, spontaneous travel is not possible.
I do grow a lot of flowers (I have been a commercial florist, and still work at a nursery), incorporated into my vegetable garden. The hummers appreciate all of them, but their favorite choice seems to be fuchsia, which, alas, does not do well in inland Mendocino (too hot). I have several honeysuckle vines, trumpet vines and more than fifty rose bushes. Loads of salvia and agastache. Monarda and yes, Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia). Hedges of rosemary and lavender.
This time of year is tricky, not much in bloom.
I supply the syrup and they reward me with their beauty and antics.
And constancy. Hummers return to the same nesting site, year after year.
I have always loved oleander, toxic though it is. It’s ironic how much is grown as a landscape plant, on roadside median strips, etc., but as you say it’s quite handsome and very tough, and very fragrant (unfortunately).
I would prefer to see it replaced with Carpenteria californica, the rare and endangered bush anemone, aka tree anemone, or its cousin Philadelphus lewisii (native mock orange). Blue ceanothus I never tire of. And what is to be done about the broom invasion? So distressing. Invades my thoughts.