Skating before the storm

 

Saturday was cold, yesterday was warm, and today it is cold again.  But tomorrow it is supposed to be warm again. And so it goes all week - oscillating between warm/wet and cold/icy.  And every day the weather forecast seems to change - one day they are calling for snow on Thursday, the next they are calling for rain. It's going to be a wild week of weather and no one seems to know anything except it's going to be unpredictable.

Basically, a jet of warm air has set up from Hawaii to the Gulf of Alaska - a 'pineapple express' - but it is whipping back and forth like a weed in the current.  When Kodiak is to the west of the jet it gets the cold polar air, but when the jet moves west then Kodiak gets all the warm air from Hawaii. Unless it goes really far west and takes all the warm air to the Aleutians! I just hope it stays more East than West or goes really far West.

When it was still cold Nora and I took the dogs ice skating at Abercrombie.  The ice was very smooth and we did a few laps around the lake with the doggies chasing us.  Then yesterday I took Bodi up Pyramid to go skiing.  It seems we got a few inches of slush before it warmed up into the 40s.

Patrick

Yesterday on Pyramid - warm and wet right up to 2000 feet

Slush and fog