Here on the Oregon coast, we have had really cold (for us!) weather plus lots of rain. Rivers are unusually high for this late in the year. I'll have to make two trips to the river where I collect data, four hours driving and 6.5 miles beating my way through the brush each time, in order to place temperature monitors this year: no way that I'll be able to wade across the river in ten days in order to place a monitor above a waterfall in a tributary. The combo of cold and high river levels has already compromised our spawning surveys, making some of the early ones flat impossible. Here, I have an acre of tall, wet grass. Lots of it will have to be beaten down with my weed whacker before I can apply the mower. Still snowing above 3,500'. Yes, we really need the snowpack, but this is pretty strange.