WeatherTogether | Karl Bonner | Activity https://weathertogether.net/groups/members/karlbonner/activity/ Activity feed for Karl Bonner. Wed, 13 May 2026 23:36:01 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 28bac179724119d3c2b306235fe9b686 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1734 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:41:55 -0800 Meteorological winter officially began for the Northern Hemisphere yesterday, December 1.  I think it was obvious in the last 10 days of November that we were getting close; we’ve already seen snow down to 1,500 […]

]]> 0 5cee612d6dc73232941c269db8f4fffc Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1712 Sat, 14 Sep 2024 18:45:43 -0700 Greetings everyone!  Hope you’ve had a fulfilling summer this year.  I returned to the States from southern Europe a little more than a week ago, and spent a few days recovering from jet lag and visiting family. N […]

]]> 0 ae1183deb8a6de2204aae5a591022605 Karl Bonner posted a new activity comment https://karl.weathertogether.net/2024/08/01/the-journey-so-far/#comment-318 Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:04:17 -0700 Thank you so much! It’s definitely felt safe so far!

In reply to - Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions   Greetings from Murter, Croatia!  I am halfway through my month-long European vacation and wanted to give a quick summary of the places I v […] ]]> e9c0d7a533096844f3889a85cd4df98d Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1696 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:50:46 -0700  

Greetings from Murter, Croatia!  I am halfway through my month-long European vacation and wanted to give a quick summary of the places I visited so far.

It’s been a tiring and frenzied pace, with only 1 […]

]]> 2 b5c20db65328bae173529dddfd33327b Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1690 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:14:43 -0700  

Greetings! It’s been months since I posted, but I wanted to give an update.
First of all, I’m leaving for central Europe this Wednesday, July 17! I’ll be visiting Iceland, Czechia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, […]

]]> 1 b12cb45fd83ce7803b5bc98ab9cbfb54 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1685 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:04:10 -0700 Five days ago, local meteorologists declared that “winter is over.” There has been considerable debate the past few years about what constitutes “wintry” conditions in our mild temperate climate. Here’s why I feel […]

]]> 0 7c1fc93c6509cc126dc80ea15798ed3b Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1678 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 02:36:22 -0800  

For more than a week, weather enthusiasts have fixated on the chilly upper-level trough that is currently entering the Pacific Northwest and will stick with us for the coming week. Snow levels will drop to […]

]]> 0 145f5452e945888d30f5c0f333aeaa6f Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1665 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:33:56 -0800 It’s been a boring first half of February…at least until today, with a wet snowstorm expected in the Columbia River Gorge.

Yesterday was a classic “late inversion season” day, not unlike an early-season day […]

]]> 0 9acaf4f082c2aa530c3b99b758b81912 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1652 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:58:39 -0800  

The period from Friday, January 12th through the 19th saw a major intrusion of arctic air into much of the Pacific Northwest, except for the southernmost locations like Medford. Now the cold air is gone, but […]

]]> 0 73400405c7187985f726cd51db68506d Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1630 Fri, 12 Jan 2024 05:19:36 -0800 It’s been a very stressful week for weather forecasters in the Pacific Northwest. Lots of uncertainty about the upcoming cold spell, but it’s now coming into clear focus.

HIGHLIGHTS

1.  Cold air arrives […]

]]> 0 112440ab0217b740687ceb587207e473 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1619 Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:23:24 -0800  

“…And,what happened if you watched the mountains in December, it was the lowest snow pack in decades. Ski resorts were unable to open for Christmas or even New Year. People were calling it…this winter was […]

]]> 0 b700618b52fffea9945912f69505c4e0 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1608 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:22:35 -0800 December 2023 is now a wrap!  I’m not going to do a year-end review of 2023 tonight, but maybe later this week….

Highlights:

1.  December was extremely warm and quite wet! In fact the warmest at PDX in o […]

]]> 0 4b973a6a17b0568ebbebaa1cca3949fc Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1595 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:33:09 -0800 Hope you all had a very happy Thanksgiving!  The weather sure has been quiet and beautiful. Yesterday Tuesday was the 6th consecutive day of mostly sunny skies for the majority of our region. Today the clouds […]

]]> 0 5be6860beab569a6a46a64f66559f48e Karl Bonner posted a new activity comment https://ingalls.weathertogether.net/2023/11/21/inversion-season-has-arrived/#comment-3993 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:41:37 -0800 One other region notorious for winter inversions: the Po Valley in northern Italy. The city of Milan is infamous for fog & smog.

In reply to - Mark Ingalls wrote a new post on the site Ingalls Weather From about November to February temperature inversions accompanied by low clouds and fog are a common weather feature in the Columbia Basin. These are not […] ]]> 36c094b2d7e8e6817119c8d9cb827e6d Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1569 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:44:29 -0700  

Happy Fall everyone! The past two weeks have been a classic mix of autumn weather in the Pacific Northwest: periods of rain and wind, some sunny days, and seasonable temperatures mostly in the 60s and low […]

]]> 0 acd91d1307ec21cb17eea179aa939ae8 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1555 Sat, 22 Jul 2023 05:36:00 -0700 Pacific Northwest summers are generally boring from a weather geek’s perspective.  Apart from the occasional thunderstorm or extreme heatwave, there’s very little activity going on…other than temperature […]

]]> 0 5cd22d4bbfb6438ed95c28d83a46c3ae Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1534 Fri, 12 May 2023 04:51:04 -0700 Remember the annoying cool & gloomy spring weather we had throughout most of March & the first 3 weeks of April?  It is now but a memory.  Our “La Niña Lag” has finally ended, and we are shifting into a warm sp […]

]]> 0 634805e467a378967744ff8c9c46455c Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1526 Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:04:36 -0700 Anyone who’s been outside in the last few weeks knows that it has been a remarkably gray, damp & cool spring thus far in NW Oregon and SW Washington.  This is wonderful news for the local vampire community.  But f […]

]]> 0 1002ea289ab4af5899116308678cee4e Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1516 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:46:28 -0800 Oops…we did it again!  In recent years, Pacific Northwest winters have trended toward having the coldest & snowiest weather late in the season, in February and early March:  late February 2011, March 2012, F […]

]]> 0 d0942f70d93752c207ccc165043a7973 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1504 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 01:27:08 -0800 Today is the last day of January and the third day of this winter’s 2nd cold spell. Granted, the days haven’t been extremely cold since the arctic front moved in Saturday night; every day since Sunday has seen […]

]]> 0 d4e03c49e26ea814e01a6435f61d988c Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1487 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 06:33:03 -0800 Happy New Year everyone!  The calendar has shifted from 2022 to 2023, and it’s time for a quick review of the past year’s biggest weather events.  Of course our calendar system is very arbitrary and a […]

]]> 0 61fa0bb3ba2fce41452d0fc30d974c83 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1476 Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:04:32 -0800 It’s been a chilly December thus far!  Through the first 15 days of the month, PDX is running 2.6° F below normal. That’s not wildly cold by any means; we’ve had no “exciting” weather save for a very marginal ” […]

]]> 0 3f744aae191737750e1582cbbf0373a8 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1462 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:34:50 -0800 Well…that happened quicker than I might have predicted. PDX saw its first snowfall of the winter today, a whopping 0.1″!  It’s actually the first time the snow station on Parkrose has ever measured any snow on […]

]]> 0 04e27782cbd1c9e00436e9cc7ae8fec7 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1441 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 06:01:07 -0800 It’s been a beautifully boring couple of weeks in the Pacific Northwest. Boring in the sense that there has been NO active weather since the first weekend of November. Beautiful in that we have seen tons of […]

]]> 0 03500aeb446ece2ffa77b17ad174ca28 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1435 Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:32:34 -0700 I just KNEW that if I planned to take a break from weather blogging, then things would suddenly become really active and intriguing.  Now we’re looking at a very active pattern for the end of October & early […]

]]> 0 79174faac088ec268bb74acd340d6e00 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1428 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 04:52:48 -0700 Whew, what an unusual season it has been!  As of October 19, Portland International Airport is running 8.7 degrees F above normal, by far the warmest early/mid October period in recorded history.  Today, Oc […]

]]> 0 2e0ddc15d7a9fecd43078e4cea64af4f Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1413 Sat, 15 Oct 2022 05:22:51 -0700 I hope you’ve been making the most of this once-in-a-lifetime October weather!  Granted, for some of us (especially in the Puget Sound and the southern Willamette Valley), the persistent wildfire smoke has been […]

]]> 0 ef81c396f95ae294752f4d9485320daa Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1388 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 23:48:41 -0700 Greetings, weather folks!  I’m back from my five-day road trip to Southern Oregon and Northern California.  As a kid I got to drive through the area several times during family visits to relatives in the Bay A […]

]]> 0 29e75901411c7f581b6cc866a8c0084d Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1378 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 03:58:58 -0700 Today is the Fall Equinox, which means that we are now passing into the “dark half” of the year.   Of course, due to seasonal lag it’s not quite the cold half of the year yet; that threshold is still  nearly a mon […]

]]> 0 063b54065b2420388b9b06761c1dd466 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1368 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 04:17:14 -0700 Last Monday morning, Portland Airport reported 0.01″ of rainfall in the gauge.  For practical purposes that amount is meaningless. But for the weather geeks, it means that our long stretch of no measurable precip […]

]]> 0 70bd5f8032fd3d113424e6d124e3c10d Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions https://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1348 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 19:05:25 -0700 September is here!  September 1 marks the beginning of meteorological fall in the Northern Hemisphere.  Of course, that’s not exactly how Pacific Northwest weather works.  In reality, early-mid September often fe […]

]]> 0 c19b2921062235a027b88d3b15e064d9 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1334 Sun, 15 May 2022 02:24:30 -0700  

I’ve been sick for the past 10 days, with my worst cold infection since the pre-Covid era.  Only the first 3 days were really acute; the problem is that the symptoms are very slow to leave.  I was going to w […]

]]> 0 eaa03fd88665c42e2d828b892d7f96dd Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1311 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:30:49 -0700 Last week was a very interesting pattern, given the season.  We had a full week of “Winter In April” weather – including a historic April snowstorm for Portland/Vancouver and temperatures more typical of late […]

]]> 0 d5c7b71395b40d913db94efc4164474a Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1295 Mon, 11 Apr 2022 05:33:53 -0700 Wow!  After an incredible 79-degree afternoon Thursday (75 at PDX), we have flipped the seasonal switch, going from June to February in just three days. Today’s high of 46 at PDX was the coldest April day in 19 […]

]]> 0 f3bfee08d5526f35108748742148c2ec Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1284 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:36:46 -0700 In the Pacific Northwest, springtime is generally the time of year with the greatest day-to-day variability in our high temperatures.  While the daily normal high temps rise only gradually between April and ea […]

]]> 0 ec1c6dcd3c70ac32ba95efc46404ad59 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1269 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:54:05 -0700 Whew, March 2022 in the Portland Metro was a boring month, climatologically speaking!  Temperatures were just slightly  (1.5 deg. F) above the 30-year normal, and rainfall was nearly an inch below normal.  If yo […]

]]> 0 9321e6b0ffa611179f9cd75f458cba88 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1256 Fri, 25 Feb 2022 04:23:30 -0800 (A quick reminder that during noteworthy weather events, you can find quick updates on my Facebook weather page.  Check it anytime there is flooding, snow, wind, heat or cold – these mini-blogs contain the finer […]

]]> 0 6f71887cb26b6697c708cfca8ca4172f Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1243 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:51:12 -0800 For winter weather nerds in the Pacific Northwest, mid-February is traditionally a tough time to reckon with.  The sun angle is rapidly inceasing and our normal daily temperatures in the lowlands are beginning to […]

]]> 0 c5e023caf18b692e136e204990fec83c Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1232 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 06:52:27 -0800 It’s been a terrible 2nd half of winter for cold and snow lovers in the Pacific Northwest.  After a strong start to the season, things died down a month ago and there’s no sign of an active pattern picking back […]

]]> 0 84c3522249fa68b44627441ffd68e92c Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1219 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 03:38:41 -0800 It sure has been a dull few weeks in the Pacific Northwest!  After an active start to winter, things really calmed down after the 1st week of January.  Believe it or not, PDX has seen 4.92″ of rain this month, w […]

]]> 0 ebd7ac707cc3192b6863ee90faa813b7 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1207 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:19:45 -0800 A new calendar year has begun, and a week-long cold spell in the Pacific Northwest is ending (at least for the West Side!).  A push of milder air and south wind has begun today, which should lead to classic […]

]]> 0 2028bf2ea1e16372e098a3d6d4859ee8 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1195 Sat, 25 Dec 2021 18:29:32 -0800 Merry Christmas!  As I write this around 10am, it’s 37 degrees outside in my Orchards neighborhood with light rain.  I don’t see any signs of slush mixing in…but I imagine a few hundred feet up in the hills a f […]

]]> 0 c6924f680ac79622d055457655e1eda4 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1181 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:42:38 -0800 It’s been the buzz of Pacific Northwest weather geeks for several days now.  And at this point, models are zeroing in on the basic pattern.  So it’s time to say:

Our region is looking at a significant winter c […]

]]> 0 fb70a3f63bd67cc91c91e1a9bdf54340 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1170 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 06:46:25 -0800 Ahhh!  Nothing says winter in the Pacific Northwest quite like cold valley rain, heavy Cascade snow…and occasional teases of snow at lower elevations.  Last night (Monday) was the first time this season we saw s […]

]]> 0 59100c70ef8465b33de9686aab07f095 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1157 Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:21:59 -0800 It’s the last night of November and the end of meteorological autumn in the Northern Hemisphere!  As of the 29th, it was the 3rd warmest November in PDX history, at 50.2 degrees F (about 3.0F warmer than […]

]]> 0 df9ab5358cfc263d23a7dfdccb0340b0 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1148 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 01:46:25 -0700 After a very stormy couple of weeks for the Pacific Northwest, the weather is calming down this Friday evening.  It’s always refreshing to see weather geeks get back into “storm mode” each fall, and last week […]

]]> 0 e63a5482ca86f38f243f94902e5d8785 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1131 Sun, 10 Oct 2021 03:25:54 -0700 It’s October and the weather is just about as boring as it can get.  Other than relatively chilly temps and the possibility of snow over the Cascade passes the next couple days, there’s nothing meteorologically […]

]]> 0 c828fd6c0b58f460ddb7ec8e593094cd Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1116 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:02:09 -0700 After one heavy rain event during the 3rd weekend of September, the Pacific Northwest is currently wrapping up a second wet spell.  This one was not quite as wet for most of the Portland metro area; however, it […]

]]> 1 a21717c1eac7646ad5d6d1be46b3ead9 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1106 Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:17:22 -0700 Hard to believe we’re only a few hours away from the first heavy rain event in Portland, since last winter!  It’s been an incredibly dry 6 1/2 months; our spring (March-May) was by far the driest on record, and […]

]]> 0 f891255985dbc4e0f4edf906fa3859d3 Karl Bonner wrote a new post on the site Karl's Weather Discussions http://karl.weathertogether.net/?p=1091 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:30:42 -0700 Hopefully you were able to make the most out of this chaotic and hot summer!  While I didn’t get to go storm chasing or camping or any “top tier” activities, I did get in several one- to two-day trips, including […]

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