What a lovely start to October! Honestly, you couldn’t ask for much more perfect weather than this. Cold nights with patchy frost in some areas, and mild sunny days in the low/mid 70s in the lowlands. The airport in Dallesport dipped as low as 34 the night/morning before last. I noticed a slight patchy frost on some car tops and maybe a hint on rooftops, this morning around 7:30am. But it was very subtle and there was no sign of…
A lot has happened in the weather world since I blogged last, both locally and nationally. Normally I like to relax in September because the weather is too “beautifully boring” to write about at length. But with multiple Category 5 hurricanes on the Gulf Coast and horrendous wildfires across the west? This has been the worst possible time for the WeatherTogether site to have accessibility problems (editor’s note: Karl and others have had problems accessing the site because our host…
Well the eclipse is over and it was definitely a wondrous experience. I got to experience less than a minute of totality from the hills south of Maupin. The temperature drop, the twilight look…and finally the sudden darkening of the sky. Anyway. We have a big hot ridgy pattern developing right now, and is expected to stick around for the majority of the next 14 days. Today’s high was 95 after a morning low of 55, and as of 10pm…
It’s time for the big ECLIPSE BLOG. A few days ago I thought I had a ride up to a camping site near John Day, for the total eclipse. But those plans fell through. As of right now, my plan is to just enjoy the 99% eclipse from here in town. But what will a 99% eclipse be like? Obviously you can’t see the corona, and also can’t safely look directly at the sun without your protective ISO glasses. The…
I REALLY was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this blog, and I’m not going to put a lot of time/effort into this one. Let’s just keep it short: the heatwave for early August has gone from merely “mentionable” to downright historic, in just about 72 hours. Also remarkable for the middle of summer? It could actually get hotter in Portland and Salem, than it does in The Dalles! That sometimes happens in Fall (September and October) as well as…
posted nearly 3 weeks ago, saying that it was “vacation time” for me. True to form, basically NOTHING has happened with the weather since then. July has turned into one big snooze-fest: no triple-digit temps, no T-storms, but no cool patterns either. We’ve managed to get two minor ‘heat events’ this month, one on the 5th-6th and another for the 22nd through 25th. Both were in the upper 90s. Of course, when the average high temp in late July is…
Given how “boringly beautiful” the weather is slated to be for the next couple weeks, I’m probably going to focus less on thinking about it and more on actually enjoying it. (At least on the days when I’m not working all day!) I probably won’t be back for a few weeks, unless: We get a BIG heatwave with temps at least up to 105-ish for a couple days A significant monsoon/thunderstorm pattern develops on the models We get some kind…
Well…The Dalles and Eastern Oregon just endured their second hot spell / heatwave of the 2017 summer season. The LATE SPRING HEATWAVE over Memorial Day Weekend doesn’t count in this case. Here in town, or at least at the airport, our high temp yesterday was 98 and today was 99. That’s not quite as hot as we got a couple weeks ago. HOWEVER…and this is the critical part… our nighttime temps this time around are at least 10-15 degrees warmer…
It’s Friday and the first major heat event of the season, is on for the Pacific Northwest. The last few days the Desert Southwest has been suffering from record-setting heat, with temps of 120 degrees F or hotter in a few places and quite a few all-time records. Luckily we will only get a “glancing blow” of hot air in the PNW this time around, not a week-long stretch of temps 95-110. Furthermore, the heat will be most ‘impressive’ over…
At 9:24pm Pacific Daylight Time tonight, the Sun will reach its northernmost point of the ecliptic – the crest of the “seasonal sine wave.” Beginning tomorrow, and continuing through December, the amount of solar energy entering earth’s Northern Hemisphere will begin to decrease. The change will be almost negligible for the next few weeks, but by August we’ll be able to notice the darkness of night encroaching on our world once more. Depending on your definition of the seasons, it’s…