At 03:40 AM 2/25/99 -0800, Dave Kruger wrote: >Man! I'm sick of this weather! Have not paddled for over a month! > >Here is the data for Astoria, OR, for yesterday, February 24: > >> ...PRECIPITATION... >> >> YESTERDAY............. 1.34 >> TOTAL FOR THE MONTH... 15.27 >> NORMAL MONTH TO DATE.. 6.59 >> TOTAL FOR THE YEAR.... 29.13 TOTAL SINCE OCT 1... 72.12 >> NORMAL YEAR TO DATE... 16.59 NORMAL FROM OCT 1... 42.92 >> >> ...WIND DATA IN MPH... >> >> AVERAGE WIND SPEED YESTERDAY... 19.7 >> FASTEST 2-MIN WIND YESTERDAY... 43 FROM 180 DEGREES >> PEAK WIND GUST YESTERDAY....... 61 FROM 170 DEGREES Hey Dave, send some of that precip. on west! Been the driest winter in recent memory on the Colorado front range. We'd LOVE some rain or snow! >Do I get any sympathy from those blessed with the solid version of water? No, but I'll rub it in a little ;-> Was so nice yesterday that I took the afternoon off and took my canoe to the local puddle which just (mostly) liquefied last weekend. Paddled 4 or 5 miles (4 laps around)and caught a couple little trout. Sunburn weather. Are you jealous yet? >Anybody got a cure for the rainy weather blues? We get our monsoons in late spring/early summer. I generally try to ignore it and carry on as usual. Easy climbing routes take on a new challenge when wet. The hills are lovely and green-smelling in the rain, and finding a dry spot beneath an overhanging rock to build a fire and toast a hot-dog is a treat. The fish don't seem to mind the rain, and the canoe doesn't really fill up . . . 'Course you've been averaging close to an inch a day this month. That, coupled with 40MPH gusts must be pretty hard to ignore; sure ain't boating weather! Bet there's plenty of snow in the Cascades! Do you ski? Snowshoe? Snowmobile? Maybe western Washington/Oregon is getting better weather and a weekend get-away is in order; surely they have some open water where one might paddle a bit. Take heart that at least the days are getting longer, and it's only 34 days til April. Hang in there! S. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 15:56:03 PST
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