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Love your post and your enthusiam! Charlie, you are the Cisco Morris of PNW weather forecasts!

That’s a pretty high compliment! Now all I need is a catchphrase. 🙂

Hi Cathie! Just read your bio, thanks for posting, I enjoyed reading it. Believe me, this blogging here is a lot of fun, and always a challenge, I am always learning something new. Right now, I was just trying to send you a general message, and this method here seems to be the only way I am seeing right now. I have tried Live Chat but it always tells me I must be a registered member, but I have been a registered member for a while now and if I say so, one of the more prolific bloggers here. I always enjoy feedback, but as is usually the case I don’t get much feedback except from Charlie. I need to work on getting more old weatherquackers on here, some may not know about it yet – Nathan said he messaged Josh sometime ago, but he still hasn’t shown up here at all yet. I miss his posts. I hope you will see this reply, and can reply back sometime. I have to check the bloggers map and see if you made it on there yet. As a lifelong professional cartographer I always enjoy and appreciate the depiction of data or information on a good map. Jeff Taylor is also a cartographer, we have a lot of similar interests and have known each other for over 20 years. Take care, Kevin

Good morning cloudy and mild Walrus! 🙂

Great write-up, Charlie! I’m more familiar with La Niña/El Nino effects on the East Coast and California. Good to know that chances are better for snowfall here in the PNW during La Ninas! My snow board is ready to go. I received 16.0″ here last year, mostly from the surprise 10-incher in January. We live on a long, steep hill at 600′ and I got home just in time at the start of that storm as the roads were getting quite slippery. I was able to enjoy it all from the comfort of home compared to my 7-hour drive home from work during the smaller December snowfall – ugh! #notenoughsnowremovalequipment, #nosaltallowed.

Patricia, you deal with MUCH harsher winters in Michigan than we do in Portland, so I completely understand! For us, La Ninas just mean 44 degrees and rainy instead of 45 degrees and rainy, and there’s nothing skiers love more than low snow levels 🙂

Thank you Laura and Jeff! I am definitely looking forward to the shift too. They’ll allow salt on the roads this year, but I don’t think it helped with the surprise January snowstorm – there’s not much you can do once the snow has already compacted onto the ground.