Karl's Weather Discussions

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, Feb. 2014, Feb. 2018, Feb/Mar 2019, Feb. 2021 and now late February 2023.  Of course there was last April’s freak snowstorm, but I see that as more of a flukish spring event than an extension of winter.  This never used to be the case; throughout most of…

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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 daytime temps in the upper 30s/low 40s across the metro.  But there were three freezing nights, with Sunday night and Monday morning the coldest. PDX bottomed out at 21° while VUO across the river dipped to 18°.  Dewpoints got very low on…

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