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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 3 months ago
Hi everybody! This week, I’ll be doing something I (surprisingly) haven’t done before: tornado chasing! I’ll be chasing with Joey Sipos, a computer programmer/game designer (check out his latest VR game, […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 3 months ago
In the wake of the incredible thunderstorms many locations around the area saw Thursday, I thought I’d write a review on the amazing and very uncommon weather we saw last week. In the interest of time, I will […]
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions 9 years, 3 months ago
Our consistently soggy and cool spring in the Pacific Northwest, has begun to break just a little bit. (Key term is “a little bit” as we will see!) Last Tuesday, May 2, The Dalles saw its first 70-degree high at […]
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl Bonner's Weather Blog 9 years, 3 months ago
Our consistently soggy and cool spring in the Pacific Northwest, has begun to break just a little bit. (Key term is “a little bit” as we will see!) Last Tuesday, May 2, The Dalles saw its first 70-degree high at […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 3 months ago
So many things to blog about… so little time.
Today was by FAR the warmest day of the year for the Pacific Northwest. The Portland Airport hit 81 degrees, making this year the first year since records began […]
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions 9 years, 3 months ago
Well…that was sure a depressing start to May! A high of only 60 degrees in The Dalles with cloud cover, and 54 at PDX. It was a rather cool weekend as well, though yesterday was quite a bit sunnier. I […]
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl Bonner's Weather Blog 9 years, 3 months ago
Well…that was sure a depressing start to May! A high of only 60 degrees in The Dalles with cloud cover, and 54 at PDX. It was a rather cool weekend as well, though yesterday was quite a bit sunnier. I […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 3 months ago
Before I discuss this landmark bill signed by President Trump, I have the pleasure of announcing some very good news regarding WeatherTogether! We finally have automatically updating model charts online! You can […]
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions 9 years, 3 months ago
What a wet spring it’s been! After getting more than double the normal rainfall for March, we’ve pulled it off again for April. As of the 28th, 1.65″ have fallen at DLS, with little chance of more between n […]
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl Bonner's Weather Blog 9 years, 3 months ago
What a wet spring it’s been! After getting more than double the normal rainfall for March, we’ve pulled it off again for April. As of the 28th, 1.65″ have fallen at DLS, with little chance of more between n […]
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Wow, that trend line is really interesting. Some of the atmospheric science professors/post docs at the UW who’ve studied atmospheric rivers (Cliff Mass, Mike Warner, just to name a few) have found that they will increase in severity due to global warming, but the type of precipitation we’ve seen this year has been more of a persistently dreary precipitation, with few major flooding events, and therefore isn’t a good indicator of climate change.
Still, the fact that (at least here on the west side) the fact that the past two winter have been some of the wettest ever certainly raises some eyebrows… could global warming result in a more persistent pattern of onshore flow with fewer periods of ridging? I don’t know and it’s too early to make conclusions after two years of data, but it’s an interesting question to ponder.
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions 9 years, 4 months ago
We are now well into the second half of the month of April, and there have still been no 70-degree days at Columbia Gorge Municipal Airport, also known as DLS. A little over a week ago, we celebrated the “Latest […]
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Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl Bonner's Weather Blog 9 years, 4 months ago
We are now well into the second half of the month of April, and there have still been no 70-degree days at Columbia Gorge Municipal Airport, also known as DLS. A little over a week ago, we celebrated the “Latest […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 4 months ago
Rumors of ol’ El returning for summer 2017 have been percolating through meteorological echo chambers for the past few months, but in the past few days, mainstream media outlets like the New York Times have […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 4 months ago
After such a cold, snowy winter and the strongest April windstorm in the Portland metro area since April 14, 1957, I’m sure many of you will be relieved to hear that tomorrow is shaping up to be the warmest day of […]
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Charlie, I am a newbie to this site, but am enjoying it. I have a question for you or anyone else involved with Charlie’s Weather. My wife and I are thinking about relocating to Eugene. We have heard that in a normal year (so what is normal these days of global weirding) Eugene has a wet season from November to May and a dry season from May to October. Has that been your experience? Sharon2047
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Hi Sharon! Thanks for joining, and I’m glad you are enjoying the site! In my experience, the heaviest rainstorms occur from Halloween through Valentine’s Day, with frequent (but decreasing) showers after Valentines day. The ramp up into stormy season is a lot quicker than the ramp down into our quiet season. The hottest months are July and August… it can reach 100 on occasion, and it is very dry. I’ve attached some climate averages for Eugene below.
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Thanks, Charlie! A couple of follow-up questions: are there data yet on the impact of global warming on this pattern of 4 months dry (quiet), 5 months wet, and 3 months transitional? Also, do El Nino and La Nina events affect this pattern? Sharon
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Hi Sharon. Research done by Mike Warner, Eric Salathe, and Cliff Mass at the UW suggests that the flooding “atmospheric river” events we see in the winter will become more intense and carry more moisture. Dr. Mass and others have also found that global warming will result in an increase in low, marine clouds during the late spring/early summer. Mountain snowpack in the winter will decrease dramatically at lower elevations, particularly after 2050.
El Nino events tend to make us warmer and slightly drier, while La Nina events tend to make us cooler and slightly wetter. However, some years are exceptions – the winter of 2015-2016 was the wettest winter on record for the Pacific Northwest, and it was also one of, if not THE, strongest El Ninos on record. Our biggest storms have tended to come during neutral years, but given our short period of record, it’s still not certain whether this is coincidence or whether there is a strong link. There does appear to be some correlation though.
El Nino and La Nina events primarily affect our weather from January through March. They have a relatively small effect on our weather throughout the late spring, summer, and autumn.
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Thanks, Charlie! Now I know more about what to learn about on your site – like atmospheric rivers and marine clouds. I appreciate your time and efforts. Sharon
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Of course, my pleasure!
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 4 months ago
I have a somewhat bad habit of overusing alliteration in my titles and posts, and this post marks the second consecutive post I’ve made a tongue-twisting title revolving around spring. But when you realize how […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 4 months ago
Hi everybody, I’m back after a brief break from blogging! I’ve been working like mad on finding out how to automatically upload some of the model charts I’ve created to the internet, and I broke new ground today […]
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