Spring Has Sprung, The Grass Has Ris' . . . I Wonder Where The Birdies Is?

Monday, April 07, 2008

NOWCAST - More showers and snow in the mountains through mid-week with cooler than average temperatures is in the cards for us. Perhaps, by the end of the week we could see plenty of sunshine and highs in the 70's. Maybe, so stay tuned. For updated local forecasts, click forecast to the right.

OUTCAST - Long time KATU weather man Jim Bosley passed away Sunday of congestive heart failure, he was 73. I sent a comment to KATU today which follows:

"Jim always had a mostly fair and sunny-side up attitude with the weather and told it like it was. I enjoyed his daily rating system and being in the weather business myself, when things got a bit too serious, I would always tune him in for a little relief causing me to laugh at myself at times. I had the opportunity to meet Jim while auditioning for a weekend weather job back in the mid 1980's at KATU. He came in and wished me luck and really calmed me down with his "go get em" cheer leading sense of direction. He will surely be missed and while he will now enjoy sunny skies and a number 10 each day in a better place, it will be only a 2 or so for the rest of us this week."
This touches me a bit because my own father died of congestive heart failure also at the age of 73.

March Rainfall Reports - So let's review some rainfall reports from your friends and neighbors around the region for last month. I recorded 4.00 inches here in north Salmon Creek; Pearson Field, Vancouver, 3.73 inches; Gary Collins, Brush Prairie, 6.80 inches; Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 10.46 inches; Tyler Mode, Minnehaha, 3.73 inches; Bud Maddux, Home Valley, 7.72 inches; Pete Conrad, Tukes Mountain, Battle Ground, 5.00 inches; Jim Knoll, Orchards, 5.82 inches; Bob Starr, Cougar, 16.37 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lakeshore, 3.78 inches; Phil Delany, above Dole Valley, 14.2 inches; Irv St. Germain, SW Prune Hill, 5.00 inches; Ellen Smart, Ridgefield, 4.40 inches; Larry Lebsack, NE Hazel Dell, 4.21 inches; Will Hayden, Five Corners, 9.16 inches; Nancy Ellifrit, Mt. Vista, 6.19 inches; Linda Roberts, Prindle, 7.49 inches; Merle Moore, two miles west of Yacolt 8.98 inches; and Murphy Dennis, Rawson Road next to Clark Rifles, 10.26 inches.

What will they think of next? For the weather and computer geek, you can get an USB plug-in thermometer/humidity sensor that logs readings right to your computer. For more information click here.


Let's see . . .how about one of those Texas ten gallon hats? Quote from our state climatologist commenting on our recent cool winter. "As you move to smaller and smaller time scales, it gets harder and harder to see the effect of rising temperatures. "If La Nina goes away and the long-term temperatures are still below average, I'll eat my hat." -Phillip Mote, March 2008.

Thanks for helping out JR!


-- posted by Pat Timm @ 1:22 PM,

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