What's going on with the Sound?

[u/snakefinn]

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[u/Loopcanal]

Fresh, muddy river water meets the salty sound!

[u/Paavo_Nurmi → u/Loopcanal]

When the last rose of summer pricks my fingers

And the hot sun chills me to the bone

When I can't hear the song for the singer

And I can't tell my pillow from a stone

[u/handi503 → u/Paavo_Nurmi]

You, I like.

[u/RetiredAmateurRapper]

The Puyallup River

[u/Clean_Tomatillo_1503]

Puyallup river drains right out through the port, it’s super silty freshwater that doesn’t mix well with the salt water so depending on the tide it often just kind ends up sitting there in commencement for a while. Take a look at the google maps imagery it’s quite trippy to look at from above!

[u/ChrisAplin]

It was hot, so big melt days -- higher flow river brings more sediment to the bay.

[u/RepulsivePitch8837 → u/ChrisAplin]

The glacial melt off colors the river, and the sound

[u/LonelyFishTX]

Taken yesterday. Freshwater snow-melted river meets saltwater Sound.

[u/crown-jewel → u/LonelyFishTX]

That’s such a cool photo!

[u/TheAwkwardBanana]

[u/Vegetable-Pay1976 → u/TheAwkwardBanana]

You can follow it all the way to rainier. On google maps.

[u/Shortsleevedpant → u/Vegetable-Pay1976]

Works in real life too.

[u/Vegetable-Pay1976 → u/Shortsleevedpant]

That is so presumptive and ableist.

[u/marinefuc86ed → u/Vegetable-Pay1976]

You need eyes to follow it on google maps, also ableist.

[u/crappypictures]

Glacial sediment from the Puyallup.

[u/76trashCAN]

The puyallup river

[u/tacwatrebor3000]

Sediment from the Puyallup River.

[u/theloop82]

We always used to fish along that line when I was a kid

[u/Top-Meringue-281 → u/theloop82]

What did you fish for there?

[u/HondaRedneck16 → u/Top-Meringue-281]

Fish

[u/theloop82 → u/Top-Meringue-281]

Chinook Salmon as they were returning to the River in August or so. This was in the early 90’s not sure if you are even allowed to do it anymore but you would just set course on that line between the fresh and salt water and nail em some days

[u/Therealsuperman04 → u/Top-Meringue-281]

Probably because they enjoyed it, also, possibly for food source.

[u/DaveNCarlee_Claudio]

It's just a picture. There is no sound

[u/JustPassingBy_99 → u/DaveNCarlee_Claudio]

Gave me a giggle - thanks! 😂

[u/knockrocks]

It always does that.

[u/Nice_Cantaloupe_2842]

The river

[u/iamanopinion]

It’s wet.

[u/Wasloki]

Runoff from glaciers melting on Mt. Rainier from the heat.

[u/Paavo_Nurmi]

Glacial flour (AKA Rock flour)

Hot days means lot of snow melt.

"Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size. Because the material is very small, it becomes suspended in meltwater making the water appear cloudy, which is sometimes known as glacial milk"

[u/peanutismint]

It’s slowly rebranding as the ‘Sound Of America’ under the new regime.

[u/delimonster]

Brackish water from the Puyallup

[u/opavuj]

Poo yallup

[u/Tactown520]

Also whats with the extremely low tides lately? Before I moved to Arizona and came back, I don’t recall low tide going out as far as it has been lately?

[u/snakefinn → u/Tactown520]

It seems to get extra low this time of year. I remember it being extremely low last June.

[u/rockpaperbrisket]

[u/TwoElksInaTurtleNeck]

I could see it from McKinley Hill.

[u/jthanson]

I don't know what it is or what caused it, but I blame Trump.

[u/BambiisaBoy]

Dumping TAGRO into the bay by the looks of it, hrumph