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NEW VIEW ON AN OLD FRIEND – When atmospheric conditions are right, there it is: Mt. Baker, finally seen last Saturday, between rain squalls. Winter skies loom low, but a shaft of sunlight highlights the mountain and reminds us we are already past the winter solstice. Slowly, days are getting longer. See Musings, page 2. – Photo by Nancy Crowell
Water stands in farm fields around La Conner at the start of the new year. Almost half of December’s rain, 1.85 inches, came the last weekend, Dec. 28-30. The month’s 3.79 inches was about 10 percent above the 3.35 average rainfall for the 17 years of data this century.
The first eight days were dry, as was half the month, 15 days, total. Under one-tenth inch fell seven days. Rainfall was primarily on Dec. 9-14 and 28-30.
There wasn’t an apparent pattern to the month’s precipitation.
While snow is seen increasingly lower on the Cascade foothills, no snow fell in greater La Conner. Temperatures...
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