Wet, Warm, Wet, Cold, on the Way in the Seven Day
Thursday, February 15, 2007
This scene is in Waterbury (should be called Snowbury) Vermont taken on Valentine's Day with over two feet of snow and it was still falling. And yes, those are automobiles under all the white stuff. Real snowmobiles!NOWCAST - Rain today with slow drying on Friday and Saturday with some fog at night. Mild Saturday then clouds return and next week looks wet and cool.
FORECAST - Today: Rain. Highs around 55. South wind 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Rain. Lows around 45. South wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light after midnight.
Friday: Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs 50 to 55. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around 40. Light wind.
SEVEN DAY TREND - Drying Friday and Saturday and then chance of rain Sunday through Friday turning cooler with very low snow levels at times. Temperatures in the 60's Saturday then 45-55 with lows 30-40.
OUTCAST - SPOKANE, Wash. Despite a drier than normal January, snowpack conditions throughout Washington are near- to above-average, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced on Monday. For the complete report, click here.
Yeah, a couple of years ago I was talking about the warm up. Here is an old column of mine:
Sunday, August 22, 2004
I mentioned in Friday's column about global warming and a very
interesting section about it in the September issue of National
Geographic.
The magazine makes for good reading and is a book worth keeping
and sharing with your children. Then in their lifetime they can
compare the predictions and current trends.
I have heard in the past couple of years in climate and weather
discussions that the climate of southern Oregon, Medford will in 20
years or so be the average in the Vancouver-Portland area. Our
overnight lows have been warmer for many years now, and our summers
and falls are increasingly getting warmer. Hotter summers and half the
annual rainfall would definitely have an impact on our region.
In Barrow, Alaska, the average annual temperature has risen 4.16
degrees in the past 30 years. Alaska has had a fourfold increase in
wildfires this summer. In a few decades, Glacier National Park may be
void of any glaciers at all. The park has seen a decline of the ice
packs by three-fourths from the early 1900s. And, of course, while it
is very warm and dry in one region, it is very wet and cool in another
due to the changing jet stream and weather patterns. While the Western
U.S. is dry and dusty, the Midwest is getting soaked this summer.
From everything that I have read, and from my own observations
over the past 30 years, the facts tell me that it has gotten warmer in
our area. Old-timers (and now myself!) tell stories of a frozen-over
Columbia River or severe blizzards and ice storms that once made their
annual visits to Clark County. Extended periods of cold weather and
ice are few and far between locally. Last winter, we got just a taste
of old times.I still believe weather occurs in cycles. We are in a warm phase but a cold one may be just around the corner. Time will tell. Not much talk in the media lately about global warming during all the snow and ice across the nation. I had to chuckle because yesterday in St. Louis, Maryville University had to cancel the screening of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth because of the snowstorm. I wonder what he thinks when he looks out the window? I wonder if he shovels his walkways?FAR OUT - Okay, here is another view on global warming presented four years ago entitled "Aliens Cause Global Warming" ,A lecture by Michael Crichton at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA on January 17, 2003. If you have some time and want to read his paper, click here.
MY Quote of the Day - "Traveling down the road of life, you'll get to the end just as fast even if you make many stops along the way." - Pat Timm
-- posted by Pat Timm @ 9:00 AM,
