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  • So the final numbers are in for the month of March. As you all know, it’s been a pretty toasty one this year, but I had no idea exactly HOW toasty. Our average temperature at DLS was 52.9 degrees F, with a high of […]

  • So the final numbers are in for the month of March. As you all know, it’s been a pretty toasty one this year, but I had no idea exactly HOW toasty. Our average temperature at DLS was 52.9 degrees F, with a high of […]

  • March 2017 has been extremely wet across the Pacific Northwest, but it hasn’t been particularly cold. My forecast for strong, 2009/2012-esque cold departures ended up busting completely, and temps are running […]

  • March 2017 has been extremely wet across the Pacific Northwest, but it hasn’t been particularly cold. My forecast for strong, 2009/2012-esque cold departures ended up busting completely, and temps are running […]

  • What a night!

    Following a beautiful spring Monday, evening showers and storms began popping up near Cave Creek. I captured a few shots of the distant lightning.

    If that wasn’t enough, ANOTHER storm […]

  • Hi everybody! I apologize for the delay in posts over the past several days – I have been working very hard on my Grads scripts and have been trying to figure out how to get them online! For those who don’t know, […]

  • It was a beautiful early spring day in the Gorge for Equinox Eve: mostly clear skies, comfortably cool temps, and a dry and breezy east wind. Despite all the sunshine, temps in The Dalles were about 3 degrees […]

  • It was a beautiful early spring day in the Gorge for Equinox Eve: mostly clear skies, comfortably cool temps, and a dry and breezy east wind. Despite all the sunshine, temps in The Dalles were about 3 degrees […]

    • Things have been slow to bloom on the west side too. I usually start feeling my seasonal allergies in the first week of March, but I’ve only started feeling them over the past couple days.

      Great photos Karl!

      • I would say that everything in The Dalles is about 10-14 days behind the “30 year pheno” average, this late-winter and early-spring. And a full month behind 2015. That year the apricot and plum and very first magnolias, peeped open in the last week of February. This year they will do so in the last week of March instead.

        Had late February through mid-March been colder, with more deep Gulf of Alaska troughs and maybe even a late-season tease of arctic air? Everything might have been an extra 7-10 days later still.

  • Mark Ingalls wrote a new post on the site Ingalls Weather 9 years, 5 months ago

    UC Berkeley’s Amateur Radio Club (archive) and the East Bay Amateur Radio Club (archive) in California launched a balloon with a tracking device Saturday, which allowed radio amateurs to see how far the […]

    • Wow, this is awesome! I’m really into vintage audio equipment (especially the giant “monster” receivers of the late 70s), and my explorations there have taught me a little about ham radio. It’s something I’d like to eventually get involved in when I get a little more settled down here in Portland.

      I’ll check out the APRS, thanks for the link Mark!

    • This is really interesting! Thanks for sharing! Who knew a balloon could get that high in the atmosphere?! (OK, “who knew health care could be so complicated”–I get it!)

  • After a long and dark Pacific Northwest winter, even the biggest storm and snow fans look forward to the longer days of spring. And perhaps no day is anticipated more than the spring equinox, which is, […]

  • I was just looking forward to taking a break from weather blogging when THIS has to happen:

    That’s a landslide on West Burnside, a couple miles west of Downtown Portland. The airport has seen nearly 2” of rai […]

  • I was just looking forward to taking a break from weather blogging when THIS has to happen:

    That’s a landslide on West Burnside, a couple miles west of Downtown Portland. The airport has seen nearly 2 […]

  • This is a posting of a blog entry from Facebook that never made it onto this site.  My apologies…because it’s a good tale of what is still theoretically possible in our climate in […]

  • This is a posting of a blog entry from Facebook that never made it onto this site.  My apologies…because it’s a good tale of what is still theoretically possible in our climate in […]

  • The night before last around 12:30am, I noticed one or two lone frogs croaking outside, for the first time this season.  It was still chilly and foggy at the time, more like an early winter day in Eugene than […]

  • The night before last around 12:30am, I noticed one or two lone frogs croaking outside, for the first time this season.  It was still chilly and foggy at the time, more like an early winter day in Eugene than […]

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