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It's been raining here in Bend since the wee hours this morning. Of course, being the high desert, it's not going to amount to a whole lot of water. We average only 12 inches/year. But it's a good thing, nevertheless! :)

Yep, a torn ear like that is a sign of a misspent youth, on the wrong side of the tracks.

We've been lucky in Bend so far this fire season (knock on wood) -- no fires threatening town. But there has been some mighty bad smoky air. I've lived in Bend for 43 years, and it hasn't always been this way. Smoky skies are slowly becoming a late-summer norm for Bend KTVZ TV

You must be living right to have such luck, Mr & Mrs 3pin!

Emergency teams struggle to reach Grand Isle [Louisiana] after Hurricane Ida Town of Grand Isle deemed "uninhabitable" following Hurricane Ida I've camped in the state park on the eastern tip of Grand Isle, LA, (connected to the mainland by an elevated causeway) at least three times -- most...

Hurricanes are destructive and deadly, but they're still fascinating when viewed from the safety of an orbiting satellite. GOES East

Kinda like what East Coasters say about Western wildfires

It's a little unusual to see a full-blown hurricane -- "Larry" -- way out in the middle of the Atlantic. Wonder where Larry has his "eye" on...

About the air quality: Why not just think of it as a typical day in Beijing or Mexico City? Makes it seem exotic...without risk of exotic variants.

Looks like summer will reappear for a few days early this week. Yeah, summer. In a normal summer it might never get hotter than upper 90s.

Yee haw!

Yes, it's --> fall

Hey, it's fall!

Yesterday was the first day of meteorological fall. Let's hope it's a wet one...and soon. .............................. >>September marks the beginning of Meteorological Fall<< [WANE TV}

La Niña Predicted for this fall and most of winter. See the link for what this means for your area.

Bootleg Fire 100% contained thanks to 'dedicated fire personnel,' Forest Service says :)

This forecast is kinda crazy: Portland, Oregon -- deep in the land of firs and ferns and marine moisture -- is forecast to be hotter than Twentynine Palms -- in the land of of Marines -- in the Mojave Desert!

What a great time to visit the Morongo Basin, Mojave Desert -- no crowds! :D And, yeah, a dry heat: 9% RH

This may be a trivial effect of wildfire smoke...but it's kinda interesting: Baseball players can't see well enough to play. Bend Elks try to play through wildfire smoke KTVZ TV

It smells like smoke outside...and the air looks hazy in just a couple of hundred yards. Current AQI is 165 -- "Unhealthy". We've had weeks of wildfires in Oregon -- including the biggest in the country, but maybe we've been lucky in Bend with the wind direction in until now.

We're getting a nice very-WET thunderstorm - including a little hail - right now at my house! :)

Looks the high Sierra Nevada range blocks the monsoonal moisture from the south/east better than does the considerably-lower Cascade range. That's my theory. ...which reminds me of this silly bit from Monty Python's FC.

Now I'm hearing tremendous thunder but little to no rain is hitting the ground. :( And now my power just went out. Likely caused by the lightning, I reckon. I reported the outage to Pacific Power with the app on my phone, but they already knew about it.