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With the arrival of west wind and temps in the 40s today Saturday, our late February cold snap in the Columbia Gorge is officially over! And what an event it was…roughly six days from beginning to end, and with […]

With the arrival of west wind and temps in the 40s today Saturday, our late February cold snap in the Columbia Gorge is officially over! And what an event it was…roughly six days from beginning to end, and with […]

Friday was another cloudy day, much cooler, with mostly AM light rain (0.24″ cocorahs gauge total, Max rain rate 0.42″/hour @ 0731 from the VP2) and then occasional drizzle and fog developing late with dense fog […]

Lowest Barometric Pressure : 30.12″ at 11:59 p.m.
Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.32″ at 9, 10 a.m.

Lowest Relative Humidity : 71% at 2 p.m.
Highest Relative Humidity : 100% at 12, 1, 3 – 5 a.m., 7 – 11:59 p […]

You get a bad cold!

Okay, so I’m not going to win any major comedy awards with that one, but it is the honest truth. On February 11th 2018, an SSW (Sudden Stratospheric Warning) event happened which, […]

Thursday was a cloudy day, mild at the very start but cooling off quickly overnight with occasional light showers (0.06″) and light drizzle and fog at times. The Thursday maximum temperature from the VP2 (67.2°) […]

Here is Thursday – February 22, 2018`s – Historical Climate Summary !

Lowest Barometric Pressure : 30.20″ at 4 a.m.
Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.39″ at 11 a.m.

Lowest Relative Humidity : 96% at 2 p.m […]

Now that the rain has ceased, we are dealing with much cooler temperatures but they are still  about 10° higher than average for this date.  Unfortunately, there is more rain ahead.  A flood warning is sti […]

Wednesday was a partly sunny day (mostly clear/sunny AM, partly to mostly cloudy PM) and even warmer that Tuesday. My 78.3 high temperature was the warmest daily max temp I have recorded since 82.3 was reached […]

Here is Wednesday – February 21, 2018`s – Historical Climate Summary !

Lowest Barometric Pressure : 30.12″ at 3 a.m.
Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.38″ at 10 a.m.

Lowest Relative Humidity : 71% at 12 […]

As expected, the innocuous, non-sticking snow that was so persistent yesterday quickly ballooned into a full-fledged, crippling lowland snow event last night as heavy band of snow pushed through the Portland metro […]

Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students discuss how they reconcile geologic time with the time frame des […]

I composed my entire Tuesday report earlier this morning, but server problems with my email did not allow me to send it, and my email did not save, so it is gone. I have reconstructed a slightly briefer report […]

To say that we are sick of rain is an understatement.  We barely got a break from it yesterday except for a few 5 minute periods here and there.  Our total since Monday night is 2.96 inches, 1.76 of that was y […]

Lowest Barometric Pressure : 30.09″ at 12, 2, 3 a.m., 8 p.m.
Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.18″ at 11 a.m.

Lowest Relative Humidity : 60% at 1 p.m.
Highest Relative Humidity : 79% at 8 a.m.

Lowest Dew […]

Another day, another poorly-forecast lowland snow event.

Our low-pressure system was stronger and faster than modeled, and as a result, it generated more and heavier precipitation than expected. Yesterday’s […]

This is going to be super short, because I’m still sick.

I hope you enjoyed “Round 1” of our late February cold-weather bonanza, because Round 2 is beginning even as I write this.

Over the last 24 to 48 hours, […]

This is going to be super short, because I’m still sick.

I hope you enjoyed “Round 1” of our late February cold-weather bonanza, because Round 2 is beginning even as I write this.

Over the last 24 to 48 […]

President’s Day Monday was a bit showery (0.02″) around sunrise, then cloudy and mild the rest of the day with only a bit of spotty drizzle and fog at times in the late evening and overnight into Tuesday. Temps […]

Once again, we received much more precip than what was predicted.  There was 1.20 inches in my gauge as of 8 AM this morning and moderate rain continues at this time.  The rain began around 1:30 PM yesterday a […]