Weather

RicksAmigo1 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:26 am Post subject: Weather

So how's the weather in your neck of the woods? Any of you Washington C-Brats hit any icebergs yet? We are getting slammed with snow in Idaho and extremely cold, windy weather (-7 F yesterday morning). Spent a lovely Christmas at Lake Mohave. It was a little chilly, but nothing like this.
Hopefully it will warm up in Seattle for the SBS and CBC.
Pat

TyBoo · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:32 am Post subject:

We had several days of cold and one day of snow and ice (yesterday). Freezing rain on top of the little bit of snow we had. It warmed to just above freezing overnite, but the roads on the north Oregon coast are still a mess. By noon today, it will typical NW Oregon weather.

All you can do is hope about the weather around here. Only a fool or a tourist predicts the weather in the NW, and I've lived here too long to be called a tourist, and I certainly don't profess to being a fool.

The SBS weather is anyone's guess, but the CBC will be hot!

Lynn Marie · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:43 am Post subject:

The weather on our part of the Oregon coast is back to normal, warm and wet. By mid morning yesterday it was in the 30's then by afternoon it hit 47 degrees. Ours is nothing like what other folks have had. Even my two block walk to work doesn't compare to TyBoo's drive up the Columbia to the Wauna Mill. I only needed a jacket with hood for 30 degrees and light east wind while Mike was probably faced with low 20's and 20 mph, and we only live 25 miles apart. Those guys from Warrenton are tuff.

C-Hawk · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:36 am Post subject:

We've got a cold snap here on my section of the coast. We expect to get all the way down to 60f today, bbrrrr. CoolSmile

We were cold and wet for Christmas and New Years, heck, I even had to put on an extra shirt to go pig hunting on the 2nd.

Pat Anderson · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:55 am Post subject: Re: Weather

Well, funny you should ask! We have just come through Snowstorm 2004 here in Western Washington, rain is falling on snow this morning, and it is slippery out there! I live at the top of a steep hill, and today is the first day that I have felt I could not try go down it. I will just see how it goes throughout the day. Ice on tree branches and powerlines has left us without power - 'puter is running on the trusty old Costco Generac, which powers the downstairs. Our temperatures until today have ranged from the single digits up north to the teens and 20s down here (Cascade foothills east of Seattle) - I know not cold for you Idaho types but frigid to us here, used to it being in the 40s and 50s fall, winter, spring and summer!

TyBoo · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:56 am Post subject:

My dad lives southeast of Portland a little ways, and they got a lot more freezing rain. Here's an email from him we got this morning:

Think warm and dry,,, Because thats all you can do in this weather.
I thought i would be smart this morning and go down and get the paper. Slid all the way to the street on my bottom . The worst part was trying to get back up to the house afterward. Had to work my way up the lawn one step at a time, didnt think i would ever make it. I was frozen time i got to the house. The streets here are solid ice about 3 inches thick. I am going to stay in the house the rest of the day. This is the worst i have seen for many years. Also the paper wasnt there

If he wasn't so far away, I would go get his durn paper for him!

MOOSE · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject:

Well, not to brag, but we had -29F on Monday, January 5th, here in International Falls, aka "the Icebox of the Nation".

DaydreamC-26 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 12:14 pm Post subject: Weather

Gee, it's a balmy 21 degrees, 20 mph wind, about -8 windchill back here on the right coast, north of Philly.

Just got back from purchasing a new collar for a roof vent pipe. don't think it's gettin' installed tuday!

Hope your ice melts soon.

B~C · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

I reported to work on the 2nd and haven't been back since. We've had snow on the roads and now a layer of ice from the freezing rain. Folks go nuts around these parts at the sight of a few snow flakes, by gwad when I was a kid in Baker City I used to peddle my bike through 2' of snow and deliver papers every day in the cold and loved it...and that was just in the summer.
Poor boat cowers under it's ice coated cover.

pugetsounder · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject:

Halleliah! I had 2 extra days off school due to snow Very Happy

! I

SNOW! I drank 3 cups of cocoa in 1 day Tea

! We have our own giant icicle in our yard. I took a picture of it

because it is just so special. Keep it up Father Winter Thumbs Up

!

-H.P. Star

TyBoo · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject:

I've been driving that road to the mill for better'n 30 years, and don't recall it ever being shut down for snow or ice. And there's been way worse storms than this. Well, this year they have closed the one hill between here and there twice already. And it ain't even really snowed, yet! They had to close it today, because the freezing rain slicked it up so much that the DOT sanding truck slid off into the ditch - chains and all.

AK Angler · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject:

Well, up here in the land of hard water we've been having some serious wind the last couple of days. Officially 63 MPH yesterday in Wasilla and unofficial reports between 70 and 90 MPH. Surprised

Last night a tanker train derailed because the wind packed the tracks with sand from a nearby construction project. It happened during the evening commute on the only road across the Palmer Hay Flats and traffic was backed up for miles. Confused

I got through just before it happened though. Mr. Green

And it's been cold, too. Right now I'm showing just about 5F at the house. That gives an official wind chill of about -40F here. And unofficially close to -50F. Shocked

brrrrrrrrrr......

And when the wind stops, I'll have to bundle up and go bust through the waist high snow drift at the end of my driveway if I want to go anywhere before the spring thaw. Cry

wailedcentipede · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject:

hello everyone, well we had a arctic outflow wind for the last 5 days or so about 5-6 inches of snow, to-day started with freezing rain but warming up, back to normal i hope .... stay on the road ... lol ...wc

Mighty Bite · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:47 am Post subject:

In Fairbanks we had a low of -32 yesterday but it warmed up today and is only -9 right now. Supposed to have wind gusts to 40mph tonight and tomorrow in the hills.

Being an eternal optimist, I'm confident that the weather will be pretty good for the SBS. If not, I'll wear a shirt and long pants.

B~C · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

our power was out last night and today...everything has about 3/4 of an inch of ice on it, freezing rain...bad.
Was watching the news yesterday and they covering the sinking of several pleasure boats in the Multnomah channel, it's seems the roof of the covered moorage iced up and came down takeing the boats with it. They where interviewing some boat owner and in the background I spied a 25' C-Dory with the name "Shearwater" on it....It appears SteveJ's boat was still floating.