Karl Bonner


  • After the weird “stationary snowstorm” for Portland last Sunday busted by staying further north, I thought that we were pretty much done with any real winter weather for the season. The maps showed nothing chilly […]

  • The season of solar spring began in the Northern Hemisphere at 7:27am PST, today Friday, February 3, 2017.  What is solar spring?  It is the quarter of the year, orbitally speaking, when the amount of incoming s […]

  • The season of solar spring began in the Northern Hemisphere at 7:27am PST, today Friday, February 3, 2017.  What is solar spring?  It is the quarter of the year, orbitally speaking, when the amount of i […]

  • Beating that 26.4 mark isn’t too tough if you have moderately chilly temps in late January; anything that keeps that 2nd half of the month below 33.4 will do. But beating the 24.5 in December 1985? That’s almost a full 2 degrees colder and would require temps averaging 29 or below these next 2 weeks.

    I don’t think I’d appreciate having to put…[Read more]

  • As you may be well aware…it’s been a chilly January up until now!  In fact you could say it’s been quite historic:  the average temperature for the first 15 days of the month (both highs and lows), is 19.4 d […]

  • As you may be well aware…it’s been a chilly January up until now!  In fact you could say it’s been quite historic:  the average temperature for the first 15 days of the month (both highs and lows), is 19.4 d […]

    • Interesting climate data Karl – we’ll see how cold this month ends up being!

      • Beating that 26.4 mark isn’t too tough if you have moderately chilly temps in late January; anything that keeps that 2nd half of the month below 33.4 will do. But beating the 24.5 in December 1985? That’s almost a full 2 degrees colder and would require temps averaging 29 or below these next 2 weeks.

        I don’t think I’d appreciate having to put up with additional snow and ice next week, in order to get the cold numbers required for that…

      • Staying below 26.4 simply requires that the 2nd half of the month is colder than 33.4 degrees, which is very doable if long-range temperature maps for the Western U.S. are to be believed. But beating December 1985? We’d need to be about 4 or 5 degrees colder than that, I believe, and that would probably require another actual cold spell in late January.

        At this point I don’t think I’d appreciate the extra snow and ice that another cold blast would most likely imply.

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