Re: Northwest Weather Warming and Drying Up

From: Neil Bradley (nb_no_spam_at_synthcom.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:31:44 -0800

"777thSector" <BrotherLode@tmicha.net> wrote in message
news:1103617074.471186.255620@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Months of well under-average rainfall continue to pass season after
> season and year after year.

Actually last year we had a 2+" overage of rain, so go figger.

> Drought months are not uncommon, even in late autumn and winter.
> Hard rain and storms,even steady rain is disappearing.
> Freezing low temps.are rare

Uh.. were you here in the Portland area during last winter with temperatures
in the teens and 20s for over a week? Lots of days had freezing
temperatures.

> while 70 degree temps. and clear days are
> becoming the norm by early Spring.

Except we had recrod *LOW* temperatures for many stretches during May and
June of 2004. Guess no one remembered that. And highs in the 70s into
October isn't uncommon and hasn't been for quite some time. I remember back
in 1988 we had high temps of near 80 at the *END* of October.

It's astounding how sunny/warm/dry weather is remembered, but major
occurrences like the flood of 96 or the winter of 2003/2004 are "forgotten".
If anything, it's more a shift in selective memory than any real change.

-->Neil