We all know this La Nina driven rainy season has seemed extra long.
But for some reason, many people want specifics–I guess, to put a number to their pain!
People have been asking me things like this: “Is there a site that counts the number of rainy days in Portland each winter?” “Is there some sort of automated counter that tells us the number of rainy days in Portland each year?”
As far as I can tell, the answers are no. And no. Until now.
You see, I’ve volunteered to be your ‘automated’ rose city rain counter. So from now on, you’ll always know THIS is where you can find the following:
- the number of rainy days in Portland each year
- the number of rainy days in Portland each rainy season
- a ‘rainy day’Â (by my definition) is any day with .01″ of rain, or more
You’ll find the counter at the bottom right corner here on the brucesussman.com weather blog. Here’s what the area of the page looks like:
Check it out. And spread the word so we can all share in the pain together!
Hi Bruce; it’s been a while since i last wrote to you. Needless to say the weather up here in vancouver (BC) isn’t much different than what you have. My mean average temperature for April was 45.9F (-4.5F below normal). Somewhat surpisingly we didn’t get a record rainfall: my amount was 5.11 inches, which is still above normal but not near the 1996 total of 7.84 inches. I’m still waiting for the first >70F temperature. the latest date for that was on May 18th in 1978, so we could be waiting for a while yet.
Roland–good hearing from you. Thanks for the cool & gray update from B.C.!
Bruce,
I have always looked for a precipitation counter, too. I have not found a site that has a daily rain/precip total, monthly running rain/precip total (and how that compares to average), and yearly running rain/precip total (and how that compares to average). Is this something that you could add to your new rainy day counter or is there a site that has this information easily available?
Thank you,
Erika Probst
Erika–I will look into expanding this with more information. Thanks for your post–good ideas!
Imagine what the number of rainy days since Jan. 1 would be like if we hadn’t gotten that “false spring” in late January and early February!
You’re not kidding. As it turns out–that was a nice break–maybe we’ll get another one of those soon!
actually there is a counter.
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/westcomp.ovc.html
222 cloudy days in portland so let’s say a lot of that includes a chance of rain 🙂
That’s great info–I’ll have to make a blog post out of it.
But, unfortunately, those are just long term averages for the number of cloudy days. Depressing ones, too–unless you live in Medford, ha-ha!
How about just cloudy days? How much rain needs to fall to count as a rainy day? Thanks!
Hillary–there needs to be at least enough rain to measure. So, .01″ or more. If we have that, it counts. Thanks for asking!
Thank you for the rainy day counter! I was looking for one online and you’re right, couldn’t find one elsewhere. Thanks for stepping up! 🙂
Hey there Bruce… How are things? Hope all is well. Just a quick question for you. Does it rain or snow more in an Oregon winter?
Anyone that is ok with all this rain and clouds are crazy !
I’m leaving as soon as I’m 18… you all can have it!
Ha-ha-Billy…too funny. I doubt you’re the only one who’s moved away from the NW for that reason. In fact, I’ve met a lot of those people when I’m on vacation somewhere sunny!
Have a good one and thanks for the post.