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November 2006 ArchivesI have a little weather joke I tell to Brenda & Russ when we go into bad or extended weather coverage... Shhhh listen guys! I think I hear the pounding hoofs from the four horsemen of the weather apocalypse... This month I think they really did ride through! We're now in the last hours of the month of November 2006. What a month! Weather wise we've been all over the board. Like watching a car sliding down I-84 East of Troutdale this m... Before the cold air moved in and the snow started flying, Sunday's storm made this the wettest November ever recorded in several Oregon cities. Portland Airport: 11.65" of rain. Old record was 11.57" in 1942 Troutdale: 12.59" of rain. Old record was 11.80" in 1960 Vancouver: 12.97" of rain. Old record was 12.92" in 1942 Astoria: 20.22" of rain. Old record w... Happy Thanksgiving! Just in time for the Friday shopping frenzy, my Northwest Weather Calendar is available at all Portland area Albertsons, GI Joe's and Pro Photo Supply in NW Portland. We've dropped the price this year to $8.88 (gee, how'd we come up with that number?), and the proceeds continue to go to the Business Education Compact. Check them out at http://www.becpdx.org. What's a We... We did it. Last night, we broke into the top 5. But this is no Billboard or Box Office list. If this were an awards show, we might call it the 'rainies'. Of course, I don't think that's really a word, but it probably works anyway...in this case. As of noon today, this is the 4th wettest November in Portland history. Here's the complete top 5 list. 1) 11.57" - 1942 2) 11.53" - 1973 3) 11.15" - 1995 <...One person's "better" can be another's worst nightmare, but for the sake of discussion let's go with drier, warmer, less stormy than the last two weeks. Then again the Aleutian Islands have been less stormy than the Northwest for the last two weeks, so that's not setting the bar very high, but you get the idea. Would you believe we've been hit by a windstorm before, on this very date? True story. It was November 13, 1981. The storm created wind gusts topping 100mph along parts of the Oregon Coast, just like our current windstorm did. And gusts in the Willamette Valley were even stronger than this time around: 71mph in both Salem and Portland. Amazingly, the 1981 storm was followed by a second windst... Having lived on the coast nearly 20 years, I was wondering why this storm has such a high barometric reading? We can usually predict "big ones", but not this time! Thank you. Cool observation and question. Reason the pressure is so high is because the center of this storm is so far away.. up near the Queen Charlotte Islands. But, wind is caused by the DIFFERENCE in pressure over an area, not the absolute value of air pressure itself. ... Matt- Amanda Howton Sounds like tomorrow wil... We live in LaGrande and wonder why no one gives a weather report for this area. Usually, if you give one at all, it is very brief and you stand in front of the map and we can't even see the satellite picture. No one gives the weather for this area. Boise gives up to Baker City and you don't give much past The Dalles. It would be so nice to have a report for this area. We are part of Oregon, you know. We all watch Portland news hoping to g... Hi Matt, I live in E.Vancouver, off Mill Plain BLVD. Its raining pretty good right now, but I am one of those weird Northwesterners who love a dumping of any kind of precipitation :) BTW..Hawks are up 13-0. Thoughts on valley floor snow this winter? Go Hawks. Winter valley snow.. doubtful this year. All signs point to a warmer than average winter. The precip could go either way. We're in an El Nino year and nothing points to big valley snow cha... I was wondering also if glaciers are actively reforming on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens after the May 1980 eruption. There were up until the eruption cycle that started back in the fall of 2004. But only in the crater, which is a northern exposure and in the shade a lot. It's doubtfull we'll ever see glaciers on the outer slopes of St Helens again. Too low, too much sun, no snowfields that last from one winter to the next which is what... Once we get this pineapple express out of the way is it safe to say there won't be another one for a while; I'd like to think there won't be long periods of high elevation rain again this winter. No, it's not at all safe to say that. We've only just begun the rainy season. If by "a while", you mean the next couple weeks, then yes, I don't see this happening again in the next two or so weeks. But it could easily Pineapple Express on us ... I see where some of the automated stations in the Oregon Coast Range and Mt. St. Helens area have recorded 24 hour rainfall amounts of 10 to more than 13 inches of rain. Why are rivers expected to crest by late tomorrow morning, before the rains may have yet ceased? Hey Dan.. good to hear from you. I suspect it's because the rainfall rates will drop off, and because we're not melting snow, the rivers respond quickly to the rate of rai... when is the really heavy rain going to hit the vancouver-portland area. I am watching the Seahawks game right now and some of the rain shots are VERY heavy, but the radar shows the same 'colors' up there as down here. Why aren't we getting the heavy showers that they are? thanks Matt Robyn... Yes, they're getting drilled like the Huskies football team in a Pac 10 game right now. :) What is this winter going to be like warm and wet or will we get snow in the mountains? Josh.. we wil certainly get snow in the mountains. Starting later this week the snow level drops to about 3,000 ft. And the pattern looks really good for building the snow pack over the next couple weeks so a skiable Thanksgiving is definitely in the range of possibility. As for the entire winter... probably not as epic as last year, but still decen...
mellotrongirl... Here it is. ...ok... After a great summer and fall Momma Nature says Game On. This is most likely a once in every ten years event. 5" in 3 hours in Elsie!?! 6" in Seaside in 24 hours. Over a foot since Thursday at Lees Camp in the Coast Range. Questions? Comments? Matt Zaffino ...We woke up to temperatures near 70 this morning. That's crazy. Over the last couple of days, I've been asked two main questions: 1) Why is it so warm around here? and 2) Why is it so incredibly wet? The answer to #1: Now normally, we'd get storms that are 'born' in the Gulf of Alaska (where it's very cold!!) and then they share that cold air wit... |
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