The weather can be everyone’s favorite topic.  Get three people together and mention a snowstorm and you can start an hour of storm stories.  Everyone has at least one.

John Willis and his family have been collecting weather data on Orcas for 125 years.  Last January Marlyn Myers recruited several weather watchers around the island to record temperatures and rainfall amounts as she and husband, Don, do every day.

John and Marlyn will reveal the data collected this past year to the Garden Club at this month’s meeting, February 19 at 10 a.m. in the Madrona Room of the Orcas Center.

John has many wonderful weather stories to recount and it will be a continuation of the taste of Orcas weather history from last January’s report.  We will have solid data on the varied amounts of rainfall at different parts of the island.  This is fascinating and knowing our specific planting zones will help us all know how to plant.  This will be an especially enlightening meeting.  For more information, see www.orcasislandgardenclub.org.