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November 2007 ArchivesGet ready everybody, this going to be a weekend I think were going to remember here in the Pacific Northwest. Not one but two weather events will hit the region in the next 72 hours. Cold continues to leak out of the Columbia River Gorge and through the Cascades. A low pressure area will develop off the coast tonight and bring snow down to the valley floor Saturday.
So Here I go. Walking out on a limb, and right now it feels real skinny! I've spent the morning pouring over satellite images, computer models upper air soundings and even pilot reports! So now I have to commit-- maybe I should be committed! It looks like Portland, Western Oregon & Southwest Washington are going to flirt with some low elevation snow.
If you caught the early evening news Wednesday night you may have seen me doing the weather from inside the Rose Garden before the Blazers game against the New Jersey Nets. We had a table set up in the south concourse, and I signed calendars before the game and at half time. I want to thank EVERYONE who stopped by, and the good folks at Blazers, especially Rebecca Ettlinger and Todd Bo... Oh how do I love Thanksgiving. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and pumpkin pie. Two pieces of pie, with whipped cream! Oh how I hate Thanksgiving, the potatoes, gravy and pie equal up to 5000 calories! YIKES! It'll take me days to work that off ! I started working off my Thanksgiving holiday meal bright and early this morning. My routine for burning the calories--an upper body work out. Brisk waving excersices worked best. I even mul... OK OK I relent! My last blog, titled An Eventful Weekend, was about the two events I hosted last weekend, BorderClash at Nike on Sunday being the second of the two. Many KGWers participated in the media race. Stef claims she and Gina won the women's division. That's cool. But she seemed a bit miffed that I had no pictures of her in my blog. Which I di... The rush has already started. Airports are getting crowded, Highway speeds are slowing and train stations are becoming packed. It's the annual Thanksgving travel migration, everybody seems to be going somewhere over the next few days. The good news is that weather is not going to play a factor if you travel remains confined to the Pacific Northwest.
I had the privilege to host the Medical Teams International (formerly Northwest Medical Teams) annual dinner and auction Saturday night. The auction was held in MTIs warehouse in SW Portland. You could peak around the curtains and catch glimpses of the boxes of medical supplies stacked high, knowing the money raised that night would go to buy more supplies and to get them delivered to d... by Dave Salesky Freshies in the Cascades! All that rain over the weekend, over 1.32" Saturday and Sunday has brought a lot of snow the the Cascades. Almost a foot and a half at Timberline Lodge, and nearly as much at Mt. Hood Meadows. All of the Cascade Moutain passes are covered with snow today.
For those of you that don't know, I have off on Thursday and Friday. That's my 'weekend.' And this past weekend, I had an urge to go hiking. So, I choose a hike, packed my supplies (water, warm clothes, compass, fire-starters, some food - all the essentials, should I get stuck out there), and then headed into the Coast Range. I did know a storm was coming, but I just had to get outside! And I'm so glad I got out there - what I discovered ... A whole lot of rain is on the way for Portland and much of the rest of the area this weekend. Rain arrived last night and probably won't stop until late Sunday. A cold front is stalling out over just east of the Cascades. With the front stalled out we're going to see waves of precipitation arrive off the coast. Our futurecast computer model which is based on the National Weather Services (NWS) North American Model (NAM) is predictin... This morning our newsroom was a buzz about the 7.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile and Argentina. A tremor that size can cause a lot of damage and injury. A quake that close to the coast can also generate a big tsunami wave! Briefly a tsunami warning was issued for Chile, Argentina even Hawaii! Along the Oregon and Washington Coast a tsunami advisory was issued. Below is a map showing travel times for tsunami waves across... The first strong wind storm (and almost certainly not the last) of this winter season barreled through the Northwest Monday with some impressive wind gusts. The top gust was measured at Cape Meares in Tillamook County at 92 mph. Top for the Coast, that is. On Mt Hood, winds reached 107 mph at the top of the Magic Mile chairlift, at 7,000 ft. There were many more gusts on the Coast over 70 mph.
Just when I was starting to worry about when and if the usual November weather would arrive, Mother Nature comes through. Boy Oh Boy has she come through. Since early this morning wind gusts on the coast have been hitting 60 plus miles an hour. Peak gusts from this storm have topped 80mph!
A high wind warning will ... Portland area weather geeks from the public, private and academic sectors got together Friday for the annual "What Will The Winter Weather Be Like?" meeting at OMSI, sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society. Amazingly, most agreed we're probably in for a stormy winter. The reason is La Nina, which is the name of a pattern of colder than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.
The storm door is open, and I don't mean the one on the back porch! A ridge of high pressure that has kept Oregon and Washington closed and locked out of our normal November rains has been broken down. A series of weather systems are now lined up poised to march over the region.
The storms will bring progressively cooler and... Our two-week dry spell is about to come to an end, but it's going out cookin'! Temperatures in the Cascades have been outrageously warm the last couple of days:
Some Cascade foothill locations were even warmer. Horse Creek, at elevation 3402 ft east of Salem, hit 70-degrees Tuesday while a bit farthe... My story today - about climate change and Mt. Hood's glaciers - is a story that needs to be told; Mt Hood's shrinking glaciers are just a symptom of a much larger problem. For more than two decades the debate over climate change and global warming has raged. Is global warming happening? If it is happening, are people to blame? Questions like these have swirled about the scientific community for years, often with murky or inconclusiv... That's what Michael Convery, our traffic guy was telling everybody Tuesday morning. Dense fog formed early in the morning and brought the comute to a snails pace. Visibility by mid morning was down to less than 200 feet near the Columbia River. Portland and Vancouver were not the only areas affected. Take a look at the satellite image below, fog formed up and down the length of the Willamette Valley.
Famed Portland, retailer Tom Peterson, used to knock on your TV screen and shout, " HEY WAKE UP! WAKE UP. " Tuesday I'll be saying the samething. Wake Up Everbody, Wake Up! Not for a sale at Tom & Gloria's store, but for something I think even better! The International Space Station and Space Shuttle will pass directly over Portland, early Tuesday morning. In Central & Eastern Oregon the view will be spectacular. Locally if fog ... For you stargazers out there, you may want to roll out of bed a bit earlier than usual and catch a glimpse of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle overhead this week. The 'viewing schedule' is listed below: To me, fall marks the beginning of storm season, and a few last rounds of golf with an eye toward ski season. And the launch of the Northwest Weather Calendar! It's available at Albertson's, Joes, and Pro Photo Supply in northwest Portland, which is where I'll be this Saturday signing calendars. Below is a list of scheduled calendar signings. You can also buy the calendar online. This year... |
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