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Month: December 2022

A Forecasting Nightmare Next Week

A Forecasting Nightmare Next Week

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 “conversation snow” event two Sundays ago. It’s just been very consistently cool the past 3 weeks; not a single 50-degree day since Thanksgiving! Most days have had temps in the mid 30s to mid 40s during the waking hours, with a…

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First West Side Snow of Season

First West Side Snow of Season

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 December 4.  We had a fairly marginal situation for snow today in the Metro area, with just some cool/dry east wind from the Gorge to provide evaporative cooling in the lower levels of the air. Temps were in the 33-35° range for most of…

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