NOAA: Weak El Nino Developing....Valley Rain and Mnt. Snow

It'd Official, NOAA released its monthly discussion on the SST's and found eveidence of a weak El Nino. Im not too concearned over this development, for one, it takes about 4-6 months to have a full effect after developing, so the beginning of winter shouldn't be too bad. I am worried about the second half of winter though, we may have a dry and mild second half, which should be paid close attention. For now, we are getting a sneak peak of mid October with cool temps (11 degrees below average earlier) and early mountain snow, which resulted in national media coverage of Mt. Hood yesterday on the Weather Channel. Timberline Lodge picked up 6" by the way. For the most part, we are done with summer and that was obvious awhile back. Expect maybe two-three more 80 degree days before the weather completely goes the other direction. Could get surprised though and end up with one last heat wave, which is unlikely at this time. UPDATE: McMinnville Weather.com's weather station in West McMinnville is back up. Sorry for the delay.