Karl Bonner's Weather Blog

It’s that perfect, magical time of year to have an extended stretch of clear skies, cool nights and warm days. And this year, we’re going to be incredibly blessed. After enduring an unusually cool and gloomy start to October, the middle of the month has turned decisively gorgeous. Today Saturday was our third sunny day. Yesterday Friday I took a drive up the Hood River Valley, to enjoy the turning leaves and the tranquil setting. I was not the least…

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September is over and October is here, so let’s take a look at the numbers for DLS. The averaged high temperature was 78.2 degrees F and the averaged low, 49.6. That makes for a mean temperature of 63.9 degrees, which is 2.2 degrees cooler than the 30-year average. Believe it or not, this was the coolest September in The Dalles since 1986. I was four years old at the time. We had a string of very chilly Septembers back in…

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