From Roller Toaster To Roller Coldster
Friday, May 23, 2008
NOWCAST- Clouds, showers Friday and a chance all through the long holiday weekend. Humid weather with even a thunder boomer is possible Sat/Sun. Cool Friday, warmer Sat/Sun/Mon into 70's.Snow down to 5,000 feet today, it is snowing in some east side locations in Oregon Friday. Not a total washout all weekend but not a hot one either. Showers could pop up any time.
OUTCAST - The following is from an e-mail from local weather specialist Steve Pierce of Vancouver and his reflections on this past winter, some serious, some fun, and some interesting. Okay Steve, it is your floor:
"The winter of 2007/2008 may not seem like a lot right now, but when we look back we will see some amazing things that will stand out. Some of these records may stand for decades, let alone years to come.
OUTCAST - The following is from an e-mail from local weather specialist Steve Pierce of Vancouver and his reflections on this past winter, some serious, some fun, and some interesting. Okay Steve, it is your floor:
"The winter of 2007/2008 may not seem like a lot right now, but when we look back we will see some amazing things that will stand out. Some of these records may stand for decades, let alone years to come.
These are off the top of my head ---
1. Historic low barometric pressure of 28.84" (lowest since Dec 1995) with that one monster winter storm.
2. Historic late snowfall for Corvallis.
3. Historic deep snow at low elevations (1k to 4k ft).
4. Historic gas prices.
5. Historic tie in the Oregon AMS presidential race.
6. Historic La Nina with the coldest SST's ever recorded in the Pacific basin at one point this winter, in Nino 1+2.
7. Historic retirement of George Taylor.
8. Historic photographic trip down the coastline after December windstorm for Steve, Pat Timm and Wolf Read.
9. Historic snow depth at Idana and Detroit Lake. Request for federal disaster assistance for snow removal.
10. Historic winds at the coast Dec 1-3rd. 42 hours above hurricane force gusts at Lincoln City. Gusts include 125mph at Lincoln City, 129 at Bay City and 147mph at radar ridge in SW WA. WOW! Strongest since Oct 12th 1962 at coast!
11. Historic Christmas Day snowfall (most locations just south and east of PDX airport).
12. Historic number of Steve's sleepless nights, waiting for the snow that never came to Vancouver (below 400ft elev). :-(
13. Historic heat wave in May for the coast.
14. Historic and very rare January tornado in Vancouver.
15. Historic low sunspot (solar) activity.
16. Historic double snowfall events in March for PDX area.
But, by far my most memorable historic event of the past 12 months was ----- drum roll please -----
Historic shutdown (just yesterday during the heat wave) of Steve for sending too many e-mails through Comcast's mail servers. Now that is priceless! Enjoy the rest of the summer. We are only about 4 months away from the fall storms once again! Maybe we will be in a La Nada and get some very low elevation snowfall that actually sticks this time."
-- posted by Pat Timm @ 9:53 AM,
