By some chance has anyone got a good look up close to the W. Satsop slide / wash out?

I took alook up close walking up the road. Ah the fix is going to be expensive and to stabalize it right on the river that is going to be difficult. Those living on the East Satsop better get used to some heavy trafic as all the trafic from the West side is going to have cross to the East Satsop at Schafer Park to get out for some time is my thought!.

The news about the budget is suggesting that WDFW will have pretty substantial cuts in access programs. Don't know, as it wasn't spelled out, just what that will mean but it probably isn't good.

Welcome to a collapsing government where the math will not allow a recovery and the government does not want to scale back its span of control or corruption...

It does not end very well for the government,, the longer they try and hang on,,, keep things the same the worse a situation for them... The sad part is,, under the MAFIA model they have no choice but to move forward speeding up their total destruction...

People we are in a process of a total system collapse...

There is no possible way the situation can be fixed or recovered...

"Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming"

We are already in the collapse process...

You can figure that this collapse will finish sooner than later because Trump is going to be the guy to both destroy it and rebuild it...

"You say you don't believe,
we're on the eve,
of destruction."

Barry McGwire, brought to us by RichG.

https://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/rfc/

Love the weather now after several months of ugly! This caught me by surprise so look to Porter and Satsop for a general view. The really ugly is the upper Chehalis tribs and at Doty that gives ugly a bad name. I have seen nothing in the forecast that looks to reverse the trend. Coho are going have a difficult summer it seems.

And little edit and this is not good!? Biggest El Nino in 140 years!

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/...ng-for-2026-27/

More on 2026 El Nino

https://www.newsweek.com/super-el-nino-predicted-what-means-us-weather-2026-11786847

This is going to be a summer to remember at WDFW. The commission/director **ssing match, perhaps a big El Niño, really nice drought and fire season, and the new grand super de duper online license system seems to have a glitch or seventy.

Lots of popcorn to be consumed this summer....

It does look to be a spectator sport for sure! Unless you get caught up in the mess one way or another and then not so much. Fish don't vote will be the final verdict.

which is why they keep losing. They are kinda crappy at making campaign donations, too.

I am still watching this El Nino thing and it still isnt good from my seat in the bleachers.

El Niño, marine heat will likely make Washington's warm year even warmer

AP


Salmon circle just below the surface inside a lock where they joined boats heading from salt water Shilshole Bay into fresh water Salmon Bay at the Ballard Locks in Seattle, as federal scientists monitored an ocean heat wave off the West Coast. In this Sept. 14, 2017, file photo. This winter has been one of Washington’s warmest and driest on record.

Despite the wet weather we have experienced recently, the state’s snow pack remains much lower than normal. And climate observers say conditions are likely to get worse.

“October through February was the third-warmest start to the water year on record in Washington. And those records are long. They go back to 1895,” said Karin Bumbaco, Washington’s deputy state climatologist.

The warm temperatures have meant precipitation in the mountains is falling as rain rather than snow. Even though more rain has fallen over the past couple weeks, the snowpack is still about 61% of the median.

Meanwhile, Bumbaco said the Climate Prediction Center issued an El Niño watch and a seasonal outlook for May through April. She said it wasn’t good news.

“They're expecting higher chances of above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation,” Bumbaco said.“That's even before this El Niño will kick in.”

The “watch” indicates that El Niño conditions could take hold as soon as this summer, meaning even more above-average temps, followed by another dry winter. Washington residents can expect lower streamflows, potential stress on water supplies, an increased risk of wildfires and a longer fire season.

Added to all of this, Bumbaco said, is the influence of marine heat that has persisted off the coast of Washington. It has been about a decade since a major patch of warm water that scientists referred to as “the blob” dissipated. It stuck around for nearly three years. Since then, smaller heat waves have raised water temperatures off the West Coast almost every year. Bumbaco said that extra heat in the ocean transports to the atmosphere above it, often moving inland and boosting temperatures in Western Washington.

The new normal

Research oceanographer Andrew Leising runs the marine heatwave tracker website for NOAA Fisheries, which the agency started after the first blob, which was at that time an extraordinary event. This year, he said, they have been watching a marine heat wave that appeared to be another major anomaly: At one point, it covered a surface area that was even larger than “the blob.” It shifted to a band of warm water right off the coast that persisted until mid-March, at 1 to 2 degrees above normal.

“It actually has backed off a little bit from Washington, so Washington is back to around normal temperatures” Leising said. He said Oregon and northern California saw cooling temps too, thanks to seasonal upwelling of colder water that pushes the heat offshore, starting around San Francisco and northward.

Leising said the heat is still persisting along the coast of southern California, where surfers report more pleasant water temps. But marine heat can lead to harmful algal blooms that make shellfish poisonous, reduce seafood production and can kill marine mammals.

It can also cause atmospheric systems that lock in the heat and can lead to more intense atmospheric rivers and storms.

Leising agreed that the models and current data are all pointing to El Niño arriving by late summer and fall, which will drive more coastal heat through the winter.

“So it will likely be a pretty hot year, and we're very likely to see more records being broken offshore and then again in the near shore next winter,” Leising said.

Both Leising and Bumbaco said they were not surprised to see the recent paper published by the American Geophysical Union, confirming what many have suspected: Global warming is not just continuing at a steady pace, it is accelerating.

The study showed that the past decade ranks as the fastest-warming on record globally. At the current pace, the authors wrote, before 2030 Earth will exceed the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming set by the Paris Climate Accord.