An informative Public Information Statement from the NWS regarding precip amounts. Some places got hammered and some did not! The rain shadow effect (NE part of the state) is in full effect! Y’all be safe & keep your powder dry - it aint over yet!
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FYI..
Shasta County SO has declared a formal State of Emergency due to flooding across numerous Shasta County communities. Details in the link below..
2120hr Update..
And just like that the High Wind Warning issued for the incoming Low(s).
#worthwatching
NWS Sacramento also talking potential damaging winds on the way.
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Going to be a lot of blow down with all that wet ground.
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Eerily quiet so far.. Hoping it more/less stays this way despite the un-nicer forecast warnings!
#Happy Festivus NOPS!
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You have NEVER worked in a Command Center have you!?
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I’m sorry!
Im an only child so.. I cant help myself sometimes..
Pleading the 5th on ECC duty. 
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We may be able to pardon @wfapdude for his use of the “Q” word. By inserting the adjective “eerily” in front of the dreaded “Q” word he has implied not a sense of peace but rather a of dread and impending doom combined with an unseen tension. I will leave final judgement to those who have the ECC experience, but I make this argument on @wfapdude’s behalf.
On the other hand, on the morning of the Park Fire last year, I heard @pyrogeography blatantly and casually throw that dreaded “Q” word out to describe conditions across North Ops that day. Seriously, I thought he knew better.
Edit: I want to point out that I’m no way blaming the Park Fire on @pyrogeography, but rather that this entire post is made in humor. Please take it that way.
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100% good read on my impulsive post & Thank you kindly for your words!
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This just issued by NWS.
Maybe/probably not record setting - certainly some attention grabbing gusts from round 1. It makes me wonder what readings we’d observe if there were anemometers on every ridgetop & valley and Mtn tops! #round2incoming
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You may be correct about the “Q” word, but you will also have to admit that when “silence prevails” the clock seems to be broken or at least running at half speed waiting on the shift to end.
When busy, time flies by a lot faster.
Just my experience. 
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I made a video for The Lookout about the study of hydrology, back in February. It focuses on Butte County, but seems relevant to flooding in places like Redding, too.
Among other things, it talks about new planning tools like landscape-scale LiDAR can be used to better understand potential runoff.
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At what point is it appropriate to say wtf is going on?!
When the Weather prevents you from capturing Weather Data isnt it past time to re-think the operation of the “little things” like how rain is collect at sites that persistently/historically show “W” when the storms get “stormy”
The amount of “W” on the map’s seems bananas - its 2025 for gosh sakes! 
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Here’s what you’re looking for.
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Theres a ton of Futz to mess with on that map - i like it!!!
100% adding it to my shortcuts.
Big time THANKS, Slasher!
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Incase anyone else is wondering about the snow drought.. 
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Fyi, this probably doesn’t mean anything or maybe it does..
Being infected by the #studentoffire disease makes it hard not to notice that most (but not all) hardwoods in my territory (North Redding and surrounding area) have finally dropped their foliage & i’m now seeing the oaks and other hardwood species setting new buds!? Thought i was crazy the other day but after observing more examples it is definitely happening and i’m not sure what to make of that and wondering what (if any) harbinger it may be. Seems VERY early but what do i kno… Dendrochronology senses are tingling!
Surely the smart folks in this forum will have thoughts/ideas or speculations at least?!
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Student of Fire disease? Come on man, not a disease, a way of life.
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I know the fog was a pain in the backside to a lot of folks. But we need some cold temps in the valley to set the vines and fruit trees for the upcoming growing season. Our apple and cherry trees have small buds but they are not pushing to bloom.
My Liquid Amber still has a full head of leaves this time last year it was bald.
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