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August 2007 ArchivesThe Aurigid meteor storm is nearly upon us! And the weather may cooperate. More than 2,000 years ago the comet Kiess passed by the sun, and left behind a debris trail in its wake. That debris has been drifting toward the Earth ever since, and will pass into Earth's orbit around 4:00am this Saturday morning, September 1st. So you can expect to start seeing shooting stars around 4am - or can you? Scientists have such limited ... This is it the last big weekend of the summer of 2007, Labor Day Weekend. Where has the summer gone? It seems more like June. The weather certainly is more like June than late August. My mantra for the holiday weekend is two out of three isn't bad! In other words expect to be under partly cloudy skies Saturday & Sunday, on Monday a weak weather system will brush us. The system will remain mainly to the north... still I can't rule ou... This could be a rough weekend for fire fighters. So far this summer Oregon, has had a relatively quiet forest fire season... That may change in the next 24 hours. Record high and near record high temperatures popped up Wednesday. Portland came within 1 degree of tying a record that's stood for over 60 years.
One more blast of sunny and hot weather before kids start heading back to school next week. Highs today will reach the lower 90s for only the 4th time this month! It's NOT the year without a summer, but you could call it a year without much of a summer.
1987 still stands with the most d... If you stay up late or get up really early Tuesday morning you're in for a treat. A rare lunar eclipse will occur. The good news is the best viewing will be right here in the Pacific Northwest. A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth passes between the Sun and Moon. The Earth casts a shadow eclipsing our view of the moon. The eclipse begins at 2:52 AM Tuesday. The moon becomes completely eclipsed at 3:37 AM. Even during the perio... As we quickly approach the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall and devastating the city of New Orleans, it seems a good time to reflect on what happened...and what's being done to be sure it never happens again. That's right Sky 8 spotted them this morning riding up and down the OHSU tram. I've heard they weren't even paying the 4 dollar price of admission. Shocking just shocking! Ok I made this all up. I just wanted to generate my own internet hoax. I figured it would dove tail with the other Mars rumor that it will be as big as the moon Monday. I think I've answered at least half a dozen calls and have had at least that many emails asking why I'm... Cue music... Roll video tape open, announcer cue... This is a Northwest News Channel 8 BREAKING NEWS! Less than 3 weeks left in most schools summer vacation. Less than 3 weeks left until the start of parents vacation! Yippee! Daughter Karen, and here friends, the kids I always see in the kitchen and in our refrigerator when I get home, are in a funk. ( don't those kids have there own refrigerators to eat from?) School starts in a few weeks a... While we've seen a decent amount of sunshine this August, it still hasn't been quite as clear as you'd expect. And tomorrow - forget about seeing any sunshine! Instead, a fall-like storm is going to say hello to the Pacific Northwest! It's setting us up for some pretty interesting weather. Our average high this time of year is 80. Our average daily rainfall this time of year...a few hundreths of an inch. Basically - usually it's w... Ah yes here we are smack dab the middle of the dog days of summer. What are the dog says of summer you ask? Typically it's the hottest and most humid portion of the summer months. It also means a period of calm or stagnant weather conditions. Generally the dog days of summer run from the middle July to Early September. The term " Dog Days" comes from the Romans, they called this time of year caniculares dies or days of the dogs. Siriu...
Climate scientists unveiled the results of some of their latest climate-change research recently. And, according to the results, it's going to be a warm decade. In the previous 100 years, global temperatures have increased by an average of one degree. The new research says that in the coming 10... It's the International Space Station and Space Shuttle. Tonight and the next few nights the shuttle and space station will pass over Portland and other cities in the northwest. Wednesday, we'll get the chance to see the pair not once but twice!
Tonight will be the best night for view because of the fair skies. Cloudy...
The Graphic above pretty much explains this blog entry. It's been a wacky August! Our average high temperature should be 80, we've average 76 so far this month. High temperatures have had almost a 40 degree swing. Unusual for what is supposed to be the warmest month of the year. ...Hurricane Flossie is a powerful hurricane in the Pacific, with winds of 135mph tonight. That makes this storm a powerful, category-four hurricane. A monster like this has the potential to cause tremendous damage if it were to make landfall. And it's moving closer and closer to Hawaii.
This morning on a small piece of land off of Florida's east coast, the space shuttle is being fueled for a 3:36pm PDT launch slated for later today. But this time of year in Florida, thunderstorms develop nearly every afternoon. And NASA's weather criteria...those weat... Summertime is here. A time in the Northwest when the sun shines warmly...and the temperatures climb to that oh-so-pleasant range of right around 80 degrees every afternoon. At least, that's what the averages say happen during the summer here. And that's exactly what the week ahead will bring. When a large ridge of high pressure builds into the Northwest, that's when temperatures soar into the 90s and 100s. But that won't be happeni... So this blog will be a bit different for me...just my random thoughts on the world of clothing... Sounds bizarre, but hang in with me here... =) So I went out to the mall to grab some summer polos Monday night. And when I got there, searching for some summer styles for my lagging wardrobe, the pleasant customer service person directed me to the clearance rack. On the plus side, I did get some great summer polos at a great price. =)... |
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