June Gloom, Inland Version

“June gloom,” i.e. fog and clouds on Pacific Northwest coasts in late spring and early summer, is a well known pattern. But some Junes, we Inland Northwest denizens get a little taste as well. A friend and I got a very welcome taste of stormy-but-not-too-stormy spring weather last month while hiking around the uplands of northeastern Washington. This moisture and its memory will likely have to see us through our warm, dry summer months (how I miss Southwest monsoons!).