It's a classic spring photo: Maty, the dog, wearing her lei on the first day of Spring near Bend, Oregon. P-o-o-r Maty! Shannon Mendiola tweeted this photo and says she wishes Central Oregon snow would stop now that it's spring but she resigned herself to whatever comes: "it is what it is!" If … [Read more...]
Bad Hair Day For The Northwest – Wind Warnings, Advisories In Place
Aqua Net anyone? Â Better buy an extra can for Thursday and cement that hair in place. Or else, it's going to get ugly! It's looking like a wild Thursday for those of us living in Washington and Oregon. By late morning, we could start seeing I-5 Corridor gusts of 40mph. Normally, it's … [Read more...]
Blowing Sand, Blowing Snow & How Low Northwest Snow Levels Go
Is the rhyming headline okay? I mean it's Valentine's Day. So thought I'd better have a poem somewhere in here! But kidding aside, this headline is also true. Two different storm systems off the west coast (you see the southern one in this image, all curled up!) will make Monday very … [Read more...]
Strange Clouds Over Mount Hood & Mount Jefferson Are Signs Of Changing Weather
When I was on vacation last year in Central Oregon, I had a farmer tell me that he never cuts hay if clouds are appearing above Mount Hood. He was talking about the same type of strange looking clouds that appeared over our mountains on Thursday evening February 3rd, 2011. In meteorology we call … [Read more...]
February 2011 Blizzard Total Opposite Of Shrinking Northwest Snow-pack
The February 2011 blizzard closed twenty-five interstates. It impacted about 100 million people. And it was Chicago's third biggest blizzard on record. More than 20" of snow fell there. Even places with less snow had big drifts. My cousin Shelley took this picture of the storm … [Read more...]
Like a Hurricane on Mt. Hood
"Huge logs are floating past and we can hear what sounds like thunder but are the boulders being pushed by the rushing water."That's what Michele Veenker wrote when she sent this video of the normally tranquil Sandy River. The river runs down the slopes of Mt. Hood. Downriver, near the town of … [Read more...]