Just after our heat-induced smog watch got dropped--Seattle broke the Clean Air Act and now has to perform an act of contrition--the weather has decided to juke to the left. The forecast is for over an inch of rain the next three days. We were just over at AccuWeather watching a caravan of animated clouds inching from Portland to Seattle. Kinda weird seeing water flow uphill like that. AccuWeather also tells us the chances are......

Hey wow, holy shit it is hot outside and it's only 11am. With this weekend's forecast, people will be freaking everywhere outside. We're planning a mountain bike ride near Roslyn on Saturday, other friends are going camping, and another crew is ski touring around Rainier. But lest you forgot your high school chemistry classes, the effect of heat on frozen substances is to cause them to melt. In this case, very suddenly and there's still......