Karl's Weather Discussions

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 at PDX, at 93 degrees. That’s not a record but it is 18 degrees above normal .  Thankfully I wasn’t around to endure it. I left the metro area around 1pm, just as the worst heat was about to kick in.  My afternoon…

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  (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 very prophetic times we are living through.  In the past three months, a pandemic virus has shut down most of “normal life” and pushed the economy into a deep recession.  We have seen widespread protests against the quarantine, as well as very bizarre behavior from…

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