Weather Update for Tahoma

   Forecasters now predict rain: too warm for snow.   So, get ready for high winds with lots of rain.  That is some respite from early winter, but we need precipitation in any form. The more the better.  Given the state of the forest inside the basin, the trees need moisture to put an end to the bark beetle infestation and the devastation it has caused.  The National forest people/rangers are limiting thinning of white fir trees for that reason alone: too many trees have been killed off by the beetles, cutting down of any living tree is counter productive.   Maybe this year will follow last year as an average snow winter.  We hope so.