“The name for the whole summer was ‘CEN’QALES – time of heat ….. During the moon CENHENEN – “time of the humpback [pink]”, was when our people fished the HENEN. … There was still another salmon that hadn’t arrived yet. That was the coho, or TAWEN. This moon was CENTAWEN – “time of the coho”, around September.” Dave Elliot senior

So we are now past CENTAWEN, and entering PEKELANEW, leaves changing colour. We are headed for a blood red Full Moon on Sunday. The tides are running strong.

Yesterday and today have seen a bunch of new arrivals. Western Grebes, American Wigeon, Shovellers, Green-winged Teal, and Horned Grebes have appeared in advance of a front. Dark, rolling stratocumulus “undulatus” clouds presage rain later today.

Its official now, the Pacific Northwest has experienced the warmest ‘CEN’QALES on record.

contributed by J.K. Finley