Craig Jungers wrote: > I used my ham radio gear to go back to the weatherfax frequencies and > watch the storms making their way across the northern North Pacific. > After a bit of time I could determine that it generally took a storm > with a low pressure of less than about 910mb to produce rain here after > passing over the 12,000 foot Cascade Mountains. After a few years the > other operators started to notice that I never got caught in the rain > and began to mimic me.... cutting when I did even when lots of others > already had their alfalfa on the ground. I wonder what they did when I > moved away. LOL. Craig, Good to know you have a background in alfalfa and know how to use weather information. Not so good that you think the Cascades typically run to 12000 ft. Rainier _alone_ stacks up to over 14,000, and Adams, the next tallest, is over 12. Nothing else is much over 8000 or 9000 except for Mt. Baker, Glacier Peak, and a couple oddballs in the very northern Cascades, while the ridge of the Washington Cascades up-weather from you averages about 5000-6000 ft. Adams is bulky, but too narrow to affect the weather where you are -- storms just slide around it. Its rain shadow barely affects Yakima. Paddling content: you can't paddle on Mt Adams. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 07 2010 - 18:19:05 PST
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