New Year, New Site..and more goals!

Well this is the first post in the Weather Blog this year, the blogger account that I have, locked me out for a good 3 months almost and I couldn't get a new blog, that would require a new site and new look. As you can tell, I have a lot of broken links in the page..as well as the lack of reasonable updates. I plan to completely overhual the site, and maybe change the site name. My goal is to have a full, nice weather page with a forum, weather reports, warnings and articles. I will also schedual weather research projects within the new site. I will have a new site up and running by fall. I will update the site every now and then before that as well. I will also be updating this blog..but will delete this blog once I have a new one up. Weatherwise, lets recap what happened this past winter, starting in November of 06. November- First half of november was wet and mild. We had a "Pineapple Express" set up as the November began to show signs of an El Nino. Heavy rains persisted cuasing rivers to swell and causing massive mudslides in Washington as well. Winds also kicked up as some of the storms moved north along the coast. Mid to Late November- Rains began to settle, but here came the next event. Snow. During the Nov. 26-28th timeframe we had Snow Advisories issued as snow showers headed towards NW Oregon. Places in the Willamette Valley got up to 3 inches of snow, others didn't get nothing. This is where the weak El Nino peaked. December- The start of December wasn't too bad, a break to say the least..or you could say it was the quiet before the next storm. In Mid December, a strong low pressure system began to undergo Cyclogenises (The rapid developement of a low pressure aka bombing out). At the same time, the low was tracking towards the NW Coast. This caused one of the biggest windstorms since 1995. 300,000 people lost power and property damage was common. In fact, I was in my house listening to shingles flap off. That was one well overdue windstorm, as you know I had researched windstorms and determined we were overdue 2 years ago before all the other mets followed the same path. To be continued... second half starting from late december to late feb. will be discussed in the next blog post.