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Draba aurea Finally - back outside after our multiple record breaking wet weather... more rain than we usually get in a year in the last 5.5 months.... Even today - I had to drive to the dry side of the state (it's raining here at my house right now even...) and while, I didn't get wet, the sun was still hiding away. I will of course come back and tag and ID all of these guys - but for now it's bedtime. Draba aurea,Draba aureola,Geotagged,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge

Draba aurea

Finally - back outside after our multiple record breaking wet weather... more rain than we usually get in a year in the last 5.5 months.... Even today - I had to drive to the dry side of the state (it's raining here at my house right now even...) and while, I didn't get wet, the sun was still hiding away. I will of course come back and tag and ID all of these guys - but for now it's bedtime.

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    Ferdy Christant
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    Sorry to hear about the bad weather. Welcome back, we missed you :) Posted 8 years ago
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      morpheme
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      I can't really complain too much... the last, at least, 3 winters have been very dry. Two were low enough rainfall to, I think be considered to be drought or near drought conditions. Last year we got a fairly average amount of precipitation, but over fewer days than normal, so we still had a lot of dry and sunny weather, which is less than typical for this area. This year was a complete turn around - we broke rainfall total records and it was very spread out.. I think I saw a statistic at the beginning of March that we'd had a whole 3 days since October that were considered to be "sunny" and only around 10 more that were "partly sunny"... Posted 8 years ago
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        Ferdy Christant
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        I wonder how that extreme rain changes the scenery and wildlife. Since you're so thorough in your documentation, we may actually notice the change :) Posted 8 years ago
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    morpheme
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    The weather can definitely make a big difference. One of the warmer, more dry years we went hiking up in a pretty high alpine area near Mt. Rainier (a hike that was not even usually possible at that time of the year...). The flowers were amazing - but for a not so great reason. The low snowpack plus an early run of very warm weather meant the meadows had melted out quickly and early- instead of blooming in succession most of the flowers popped up at once. It was amazing to see fields of avalanche lilies mixed with bright red paintbrush, but a little scary when thinking about the weather and climate changes that made it possible.
    It might just be coincidence, but we certainly seem to be experiencing more extremes in weather here - really dry or really wet.. really hot or really cold... Some of it is because of more El Nino and La Nina years rather than neutral ones - but how much of that has to do with climate change, I don't really know.     Posted 8 years ago, modified 8 years ago

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Uploaded Apr 5, 2017. Captured Apr 4, 2017 13:34 in Lateral G, Yakima, WA 98908, USA.
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