Phirehose Photo

Consider this a followup to my post earlier today. We get into set-ups like this a two or three times each winter... the satellite pics show this long torrent of water just streaming right at us. Very cool. One not-so-good thing that I forgot to mention earlier is that the first part of the storm will drop a lot of snow in the Cascades (the Coast Range isn't high enough to get any real accumulation at this point). Tomorrow, freezing level will go way up, and a lot of that fresh snow will melt. Flooding may ensue; we'll see. The main worry right now seems to be flooding on the west side of the Coast Range. Rainfall so far is approaching two inches. Bill just got back from spending the day in Newport (on the coast directly west of Corvallis), and said it was windy, but the amount of rainfall wasn't that extreme.

From here:

The system that's moving in this afternoon has tapped into a pool of tropical
moisture and could dump an additional inch or two of rain in the Willamette
Valley, and five to eight inches of rain in the Coast range and Cascade
foothills.

If you don't click over, the title to that article is, "You know the drill: More rain, more wind, possible flooding." Yup, we know the drill.

You know, I was looking at this, and it was taken in the same band at the same time as the third picture in the post linked above; I think it may be just the direction the camera is pointed that changed. Ahh, no, I just double checked; this was taken an hour earlier.

Followup: Oops, this picture was taken yesterday. It's the same as the first picture in the previous post. Duh.