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  • Today began very cold with temps in the teens and we’ll be lucky to see the freezing mark today.  At least we don’t have strong winds to contend with.  Yesterday was a sad day for us.  My daughter had to have he […]

  • One of our family friends is a brilliant oceanography professor and extremely accomplished skier, and he has a t-shirt that says “Viva La Nina.” It’s a perfect shirt for an oceanographer (since La Nina is a […]

  • This, being our last week of December, is quite uneventful.  There are no major storms or any significant weather in the forecast.  The little snow that we have is slowly melting and rain in the the forecast for t […]

  • We had continual light snow showers all day yesterday and we did accumulate exactly 1 inch of total snow cover.  Today is peaceful, weather-wise, and it is cloudy with temperatures right near normal.  So it i […]

  • The day after Christmas Day is called Boxing Day in the United Kingdom, named, not because people went around to other people’s houses drunk from all the sherry drunk the previous day and roar “Do you want some?” […]

  • Happy Christmas Eve everybody! I hope this post finds you all in good health and cheer, or at least as good as things can be considering the times. I was fortunate enough to witness the “Grand Conjunction” last […]

  • As warm as today is, it is not pleasant to be outdoors due to the strong winds.  We have a large cold front coming tomorrow and temperatures will be dropping all day.  We have reached our high of 50F but the w […]

  • I think that our mild weather is coming to an end looking at the extended forecast on Christmas.  Tomorrow will probably be the warmest that we’ll see for awhile with highs expected to reach near 50F.  The high t […]

  • Our December weather continues to be mild and quite uneventful.  Highs today should remain in the mid to upper 30s with little precipitation in the forecast.  I’m hearing the latest forecast calling for a p […]

  • Oregon’s Western Cascades watershed to experience larger, more frequent fires — ScienceDaily

  • We have another gloomy day with temps hovering right near the freezing mark.  The little snow that we had yesterday is now gone and a little mist could be felt when I was outdoors a while ago.  No sun is e […]

  • (Stock flood image courtesy of CorvallisOregon.gov)

    The past week in NW Oregon has seen a fairly active winter pattern pick up. Several wet systems and cool enough airmasses for real Cascade snow last weekend. […]

  • Today seems like a typical December day in Michigan with cloudy skies, temps in the 20s, and light snow falling.  Highs today will probably not rise above freezing but we’re expecting a warmup by the weekend.  O […]

  • We seem to be right on the northern edge of a large winter storm which will affect much of New England, Pennsylvania and New York.  Once again we are lucking out and our ground remains snow-less and green at this […]

  • A seasonably cool to mild, generally dry period covered the first half of December with the exception of the rainstorms on the 4th- 5th and 14th. Max temperatures mostly held in the 40s over the first 2/3 of the […]

  • I was in the hospital much of yesterday so didn’t really get a view of weather conditions, but I do know that we got a lot of rain, and northern Michigan got a lot of snow.  My weather station is showing that we […]

  • Not only should we see the sun today, but temperatures should rise to near 50F.  Winds will be light so it will be a very nice day to be out and about.  We haven’t had any precipitation for almost a week but t […]

  • I feel like I’m repeating myself everyday, but there really hasn’t been any change in our weather over the past 4 days.  Even when they predict sun, we hardly see any, and temperatures are stuck in the mid 30s […]

  • The forecast is calling for partly sunny conditions today, but once again there is no sign of the sun.  We did see a few peeks of the sun late yesterday but not enough to matter.  It didn’t get very warm e […]

  • When most Portlanders think of December, they think of Christmas trees, advent calendars, and cars with those big bows on them. Certainly not sunny skies, and much less 50+ degree temperatures to accompany […]

    • Charlie, I’ve been enjoying the dry weather here, especially when having the doggies outside, though looking forward to more precip., especially mountain snows.
      incidentally, when I saw your blog post title, I first read, “Rainier” as the volcano instead of the wet version! Wow, to get a Mt. Rainier pattern in Portland would be AMAZING!!

    • Mountains looked beautiful yesterday from afar, bummed I couldn’t go up this weekend but aiming to next weekend! And yes, Mark Ingalls thought the same thing when he saw the title 😀

    • Thanks so much for reading Rich! If you ever have any questions about the technical points just post them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them.

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