At least we don't have to shovel it!
It's cold & windy but at least we don't have to break out the shovels & snow blowers. The picture below is Rick Jacobs, cabin near La Pine. Rick works here at the big 8ski. We call his cabin the Central Oregon Bureau. As you can see the bureau needs to be dug out. Much of the state east of the Cascades looks like this. Pretty as a Norman Rockwell painting. It's also keeping a lot of home owners busy clearing roofs and driveways. The Snow cover eastside is also keeping temperatures low. Radiational cooling at night has helped push low temperatures in the single digits. That cold air is also moving down the Gorge, chilling Portland and the North Willamette Valley. Complain all you want about the cold, my email is full of messages asking when it's going to warm up. The answer, not anytime soon. The good news is at least we don't have to shovel it. Well not yet anyway :-)
Stay Warm everybody
Dave
dsalesky@kgw.com
