Glenn, thanks for the short course on water run-off.  Something else I hadn't thought of.  But the link I posted was for air temps.  I put a different link that shows basically the same as the first one.  I'ts a curve chart which shows 35 degrees winter months to 75 degrees in the summer months.  Between the mountain run off and relatively narrow tempature change, what do you get for what would be considered a fall turnover?

Are you headed to the back side of your deluge crisis?  I see commerce was just killed by this.

BTW here's a copy of the new link I found:

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USWA0395

I guess as far as averages go, that's about right.  We tend to go in 10 year cycles where we'll have a few years of above-average temps followed by below average years.

The last several years have been above average.  But the last 6 weeks have well below average (below freezing for the most part).  I was thinking, "Uh-oh, here we go" when the last 2 weeks of average temps appeared.  And next week, they expect highs in the low 50's, which is above average.

So who knows?!!

Typically we don't have pronounced turnovers in the fall, if at all.  Most lakes don't set up and stratify like they do in the south.

Yes, the floods are receding.  It's raining now, but not enough to cause more flooding.  Just enough to slow down the receding waters.  

Now it's damage repair.  A lot of people lost their homes, tens of thousands more have serious repairs, and there's a LOT of damaged roads!  The main highway here in Maple Valley is still closed due to flooding.  It may open tomorrow night, but not sure.  Depends on how much damage is revealed after the waters recede.

I couldn't imagine predicting weather like that. In New England, we could br wearing t-shirts today but have tundra tomorrow.