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Amigos,

If any of you have time to peruse this new website that's taken embarrassing amounts of my time (link below), I'd appreciate heads-ups about any funny business. Hopefully it works well in all newish browsers. On a related note, IE really sucks, but I think I have that dialed.

Much more should follow. I want to do some really neat stuff with the new regional pages that will link from the main map at some point in the future. But that will have to wait. First, content.

I was going to rant about the pathetic excuses for weather forecasts that the meteorologists gave us earlier this week, but I think I'll go enjoy the sunny weather amidst the beautiful cherry blossoms of the quad. I have to work an experiment shift here at the lab tonight, so it's not like I coulda went big today anyway.

Buenas tardes y gracias,
Cielo

Sickness Spreading?

Too busy obsessing over skiing to make a fancy homepage?

http://skisickness.com

Pictures?

Here are some pictures from the last week that I like. How about a random paragraph of captions? Casey is a good skier. Casey skis with views of some mountains in the backdrop that make me feel really badass. CHERRY BLOSSOMS, MY LOVE! Jason never did manage to start a fire. That approach kinda sucked. Very cool terrain. You can almost smell that salt water from 7k. That last sentence may have went too far revealing somebody's proj: I hope Lefty doesn't punch me, that sinister Canyucker.

Inside Information

Please don't post this link elsewhere, as the whole site is still under development, but here is a new vortex of SkiSickness:

http://skisickness.com/Locate/

Tasty Cake?

Nope, the refined recipe flopped in the oven and now we have a big, funky chocolate pancake.

Here's to my good friend, beer.

Refine the Recipe

Just in time for one final winter send, the LONG TERM is showing hints of get-busy time:

.LONG TERM...FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH
THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS WILL SLIDE SOUTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON
SUNDAY NIGHT BRINGING AN END TO THE STEADY RAINS AND USHERING IN
COOLER TEMPERATURES AND CORRESPONDING LOWER FREEZING LEVELS. WITH
THIS WE WILL TRANSITION TO A WESTERLY FLOW WITH A WEAK SYSTEM
EXPECTED TO ZIP ACROSS THE AREA LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY WHICH WILL
ENHANCE THE SHOWER ACTIVITY OVER THE REGION. TEMPERATURES WILL BE A
BIT COOLER THAN NORMAL WITH THE SNOW LEVEL BELOW PASS LEVELS.
BEYOND THAT (WED ONWARD) THE LONGER RANGE MODELS ARE OFFERING UP A
BIT OF A CHANGE FROM WHAT HAS BEEN ADVERTISED THE LAST FEW NIGHTS
WITH RIDGING TAKING HOLD OVER THE REGION. STILL PLENTY OF ACTIVITY
IN A RATHER STRONG JET OVER THIS RIDGE AND WE ARE RIGHT ON THE EDGE.
COULD END UP MILD AND DRY OR MILD AND WET. EITHER WAY...NUDGED
TEMPS AND FREEZING LEVELS UP A HAIR BUT LEFT THE REMAINDER OF THE
EXTENDED PERIOD ALONG AT THIS POINT. CERNIGLIA

Pineapple -> Cool & Wet -> Ridge -> GO BIG. Cross your fingers.

Not Spring, Not Winter

That would describe the skiing today. It was better than work, though.

$1 pitchers of High Life, anyone?

Consider the Implications

from Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4604433.html

March 6, 2007, 12:35AM
Scientists say Asia's soot causing weather imbalance

By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
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Pollution from the burning of wood and coal in Asia has spiked in recent years, causing increasingly erratic weather across much of the Northern Hemisphere, scientists say.

A team of researchers, led by Renyi Zhang at Texas A&M University, has linked soot from power plants and other sources to an intensification of wintertime storms over the North Pacific during the last two decades.

"If you change this storm system over the Pacific, you're going to change the weather everywhere," said Zhang, a professor of atmospheric sciences.

It is the first time pollution has been linked to such far-reaching changes in weather, changes that could include stronger winter storms, especially along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska.

Powder emphasis.

Davenport comes to Washington?

New York Times article

The only real question is: Which route will he look to ski off the Raindawg?