Active Weather & Flooding This Weekend; PNW Skies Not Cooperating With Jupiter & Saturn
(Stock flood image courtesy of CorvallisOregon.gov) The past week in NW Oregon has seen a fairly active winter pattern pick up. Several wet systems and cool enough airmasses for real Cascade snow last weekend. There was even a little wet snow in the Gorge, under low-level east wind, on Sunday. All the rain, snow and gray skies have been bad news for Pacific Northwest astronomers, who haven’t been able to view the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the early…