Warm and Humid, ahh a taste of the east!

What a weird weather pattern we are in. An upper level low is setting right off the coast sending waves of rain and showers through the area. Whats more impressive is the fact that temperatures have reached the 70's with the rain and this means HUMID air in the area. Next week is looking a lot better with temps staying seasonable. Off that news, I am creating a scale that rates the impacts of snowstorms in the NW. It will be geat to have a ranking system of all our snow events in the NW. My hopes is that after long research, that the medai and NWS around the area will accept my scale of impact and integrate it into their rankings. I'll have that out as soon as im done doing the research. I don't have a date set for that yet but will keep you all posted. I will be finishing the site up by Sunday, so will have buttons on the menu this time. Enjoy.

May 27th and a Snow Advisory in the Cascades?

Sorry about the lack of post's, I got the flu, so I couldn't work on the updates for the site either. Ok, well what the heck, it feels like winter lately, I can see my breath out and its past noon already. Thanks to this persistant upper level low spinning off the coast, we are experience way below normal temps and above average precip for the past 3 days. Pretty interesting weather i'd have to admit though, we've seen an extreme of weather late spring with 90 degree weather, thunderstorms, rain, and cold temps. The Cascades have a snow advisory in place, so that also shows you how cold it is now. Better news for next week as a ridge seems to want to make a rest stop in the NW. High's next week are ranging from 70-75 degrees at the first of the week ending with 75-80 degrees at the end of the week. Less precip as well. Look forward to that.

More Thunderstorms, Closer to Home this Time

What a wild sunday for NW Oregon! Took photos of some thunderstorms developing south of McMinnville yesterday. It eventually hit us and brought heavy rain and gusty winds. And of course, lightning. A tree in the area was struck by lightning, splitting a branch. Other tree's had wind damage. I'll post the photos a little later. Im already starting to look at the future for the upcoming winter (yes I know its only May), and I am keeping an eye out on the tropics and current weather patterns. My winter weather predictions will be released in September in PDF format. Its in a report, so I used word. Im still updating the site, so keep checking back!

Notice all the Thunderstorms in E. Oregon?

I've been keeping an eye out on the radar the last couple of days and you may be asking me why, since we havn't seen a cloud in days. But, remember..we have the cascades and then the desert to our east..which is flat beyond that. That leaves the door open for some pretty strong thunderstorms and thus explains why I was watching the radar. This type of pattern in E. Oregon reminds me of Florida when the thunderstorms would pop up from the heating of the day. Very similar here, which makes the chances of seeing severe storms the better. *Site Update* Just added some links in, but I am still in the process of designing buttons to replace the text on the left. I tweaked around with some backgrounds and I still need to find a better background for the logo area. Just working on it all day today makes me realise I still have a lot of work to do. Oh and I also added back the Forum at peoples request. I will overhaul that as well.

New Site, and HOTTT Weather....

Finally, I have some of the "new" site up on time. I still have a lot of work to do, my background for the logo is too small and such. I need new link buttons, but other than that I got my RSS feed to work using this blog, which is now directly connected under the news section. This should be a lot better than the previous site. Now, to the weather. What a hot day it was yesterday. My temp reading here was 95, but I disagree with it, the sun may have got to it, but I do know we were around 92 here in McMinnville and hot everywhere else as well. Thanks to the lovely thermal trough off the coast, the real bummer was that we didn't get to see any thunderstorms. We have another oppertunity for that later in the week. For now, take care!

The Future of McMinnville Weather....

I have the new site set up, but I am having problems with the links and will have to work on that. The future stands as this, once the new page is up, updates will resume to normal basis. I have written a couple columns that I decided to wait on posting it until the new page is up, so some juicy tidbits will welcome the new site. I am also working on a new Blog, to prevent blackouts on days I try to post as in the past, which is why I would say this blog went down hill. I will have restrictions on comments once again, but not as strict as they are now. I didn't appreciate the none sense on the comments, probally from people I know around town who have nothing better to do other than rot their lives away writing none sense. Looking at it in a different spectrum, maybe I did deserve some of the comments for failing to get everything in order and updated in a timely manner. Other than that, I have an event to attend tomorrow night, should be interesting. I also want to note that the National Weather Service of Portland is offering a Severe Weather Awareness week May 7th-13th, which concentrates on what to expect in this new year and how to prepare for Severe storms of all types. We generally look at the Spring/Summer events in this section, which includes Severe Thunderstorms, Floods, Tornadoes, Wild Fires and much more. A fake Severe Thunderstorm Warning will be set off on May 12th, to help emergency agencies and citizens to practice emergency plans. Click here to learn more, I will post a new blog Sunday detailing everything, so check back! --Grant L.