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January 2006 ArchivesDon't ya just love Oregon in the January! One day it's sunny with temperatures in the 70's the next it's cloudy, rainy and snow is on the way to the mountains. Tuesday Newport, Seaside & Tillamook all top out at 70 degrees or above! In Tillamook it was the warmest temperature ever recorded for a January day. Don't go rushing to the beach today, expecting more of the same. The first in a series of storms is moving ashore beginning tod... Portland, is emerging from the gloom of winter. When the sun sets this afternoon at 5pm it will be the first time since October 30th, the sun has gone down at 5 o'clock or later. We'll have 9 hours and 16 minutes of daylight today. Portland is also coming out of the dunk tank! 32 of the last 31 days have been wet. Rivers running above bankfull, hillsides are saturated and sliding. Beginning late Saturday and continuing through earl... If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard the title of this blog...well, I wouldn't be writing this thing. Let's just say I'd be on an island somewhere enjoying my sunny retirement, ha-ha-ha! Seriously though, both showers and rain are wet, right? So how the heck do you tell the difference? It is confusing and people ask me all the time about what the difference is. Well, here are some rules of thumb: Both rain and sho... Look at the picture of the Willamette River this morning. It continues to run above bankful, at over 62 feet above the Oregon City Falls. The color remains a medium chocolate color.
This morning the Willamette was running at 138,655 cubic feet per second! That's a lot of water. Yes it's down from late last week b... I'm so sick of saying the word rain (ha-ha-ha) that I went to Dictionary.com and looked up synonyms for the word. They include the following: "cloud juice" (I like it!) "cat-and-dog weather" (not bad) "window washer" (so true) "wet stuff" and the always popular, but boring, "liquid sunshine." What I'm wondering is...have you heard others? I'm taking suggestions and would appreciate yours, so I do... Just like your relatives who come and stay to long for the holidays rain is returning, and it's going to be back for a while. My loving spouse Sandy, pointed out It's sad when you count the dry periods in hours! How true. The next storm is already being picked up on the 4km. satellite images. Rain will start light then get heavier as the day goes on. The warm front arriving will push snow levels up to around 5000ft. Snow that's bel... it just might be 40 days and 40 nights of rain... 23 of the last 24 days now with rain or rain showers. I expect rain will continue through early Wednesday the we should catch a bit of a break. Not just rain but record rain in Portland 1.35" as of 7pm. That's a new 24 hour record. Today's high 57 degrees also goes into the books tying a record set 61 years ago. Lee's camp in The Coast Range has nearly been washed away, they've picked ... You ever been driving in the rain when you just can't see out the windshield...no matter how fast the wipers are going? Well, that's been me lately. And the wipers are fairly new, too so I didn't need to blow more money on those. Have you heard of this stuff...or used it? Honest... Brad's my brother inlaw, big time fisherman big time jet boat owner. If it keeps raining like this I may need his boat to get around. Like trying to find a parking spot at the mall during Christmas, storms are backed up across the Pacific waiting to drop rain on the Pacific Northwest. I'm wrting this note around 10:30 Friday morning, since midnight we've seen over .75" of rain. More rain is on the way today and for the weekend. The QPF I've been out of the weather center the last couple of weeks. I'm just sitting down and reading some emails.First thanks to all of you who read this blog. I often wonder if I'm just typing to myself. A couple of you pointed out the blog was not updated while I was gone, sorry. It's been kind of interesting around here with everybody trying to get time off during the holidays. I'll make a belated New Years Resolution to keep the blog updated mo... |
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