Karl Bonner

Greetings all!  I hope your Thanksgiving was safe and peaceful. For the first time in my life, I didn’t spend the holiday in The Dalles with family due to COVID and their vulnerable immune status. Just stayed in […]

Good evening everyone!  Two days ago, one of our country’s most contentious elections in modern U.S. history, was concluded.  To keep things short, we have a new president on the way- and here’s to hoping that h […]

Greetings world!  The month of September has been a rough one here in the Pacific Northwest.  Western Oregon endured what is most likely the worst outbreak of wildfires in recorded history.  The historic eas […]

Oh what a weird and dark and admittedly apocalyptic time, this is turning out to be!  I’m going to save the monster wildfire scenario for another day, when things are calmed down a little more.

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Late last night, I had the unfortunate mishap of wandering to another website WITHOUT first saving my blog-in-progress.  More than an hour of work was instantly lost.   I’m not going to make the same mistake ag […]

Hard to believe that September and “meteorological” fall have arrived. Summer 2020 was a surprisingly boring one, as far as climatology goes:  Temperatures were very near normal for the month of June, and just […]

The last couple days, weather geeks and non-geeks alike have turned their eyes to the coast of East Texas and West Louisiana, where hurricane Laura is in the process of devastating communities with 150-160 mph […]

After a toasty late July and early August, cooler weather has recently returned to the Pacific Northwest.  Except for a 90 on Monday the 10th, every other day since August 5 has stayed below 85 degrees at P […]

The last 12 days (not including today) have been a classic example of “Mediterranean summer” weather in the Pacific Northwest and the Portland Metro.  There have been almost no clouds in the morning, and temps […]

(Cover photo credit of Ben Randall)

After a slow start, Pacific Northwest summer is in full swing!  The first 10 days of July was the coolest in many years, with only one day in the low 80s, most days u […]

I hope you are safely enjoying this summer weather across the Pacific Northwest!  After a very gloomy first half of June, we finally turned a corner this week.

Yesterday Tuesday was the hottest day of the year […]

(Cover image credit of NWS Medford; historic 9-inch June snowfall at Crater Lake Lodge)

Before diving into the usual topic of this blog (weather), I wanted to acknowledge the obvious:  These are […]

(cover photo credit of PureVacations.com)

Those who have followed seasonal changes in the Pacific Northwest, know that our seasons can be rather lopsided:  Temperatures normally drop a lot more quickly in the […]

Good morning!  I wasn’t planning to write much more on weather for a few weeks.  I’ve had plans to write about the pandemic, the economy, and greater social and political implications for the future.  But fi […]

Over the past week, the weather in the Pacific Northwest has taken a dramatic turn.  Back in late March and early April, we were under a continuous two-week stretch of clouds, rain, cool temperatures and fairly […]

I hope all of you are safe and at some semblance of peace.  This has been a very tough 3 weeks for all of us, and we still have at least 6-8 weeks of isolation ahead.  The weather has been cooperating with our s […]

I hope ALL of you are keeping safe and keeping apart from other human beings, this week.  Wow….it’s incredible how this COVID-19 virus has upended our entire social order in a matter of two weeks.  Exactly two S […]

Greetings!  What a week it has been.  I’m not going to delve into the COVID-19 pandemic here; you’ve probably heard enough by now that you’re canceling plans left and right, and preparing to isolate for a couple m […]