just looking thru some pics, i almost forgot it used to snow in oregon 
the good ole days
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Global warming I guess?? Sux for sure.
It's snowing hard this morning. I just wish it would cool down a little so it can stay around for awhile. I think we'll ride into Timponagas today.
Hoodoo March 2008. Lets hope for a February dump!
El Nino
Thanks thewished,
It is a strong El Nino year... this happens all over the west during these cycles. Farmer's Almanac predicted a very snowy year UNLESS El Nino developed. Well, it did. We had record low temps all through November/ December. I had underground pipes freezing that are buried over 3 feet deep. That was not global warming. Sorry, but this planet does what his been doing from day one... its nothing is that simple.
What goes around comes around... what goes up, must come down... remember last year (at least here in Eastern Oregon). Dumps of snow in December, then nothing for two months. Then it snowed like hell in the mountains in March, April and even May. It snowed enough on the valley floor on June 10 to snap trees in half (that had leafed out) all over the place. It was a mess. I couldn't drive over the top of the Elks to Dale until July. And there was still snow in the shade then.
Global warming (man made anyway) is nothing but the biggest $$$$ scam in history. If there wasn't some sort of climate change ALWAYS going on, we'd still be smashing into woolly mammoths and such on our snowmobiles.
Thanks thewished,
It is a strong El Nino year... this happens all over the west during these cycles. Farmer's Almanac predicted a very snowy year UNLESS El Nino developed. Well, it did. We had record low temps all through November/ December. I had underground pipes freezing that are buried over 3 feet deep. That was not global warming. Sorry, but this planet does what his been doing from day one... its nothing is that simple.
What goes around comes around... what goes up, must come down... remember last year (at least here in Eastern Oregon). Dumps of snow in December, then nothing for two months. Then it snowed like hell in the mountains in March, April and even May. It snowed enough on the valley floor on June 10 to snap trees in half (that had leafed out) all over the place. It was a mess. I couldn't drive over the top of the Elks to Dale until July. And there was still snow in the shade then.
Global warming (man made anyway) is nothing but the biggest $$$$ scam in history. If there wasn't some sort of climate change ALWAYS going on, we'd still be smashing into woolly mammoths and such on our snowmobiles.
Marine Currents
1933, Crater Lake National Park, 6,400 ft, Oregon Cascades, with notes about La Nina vs. El Nino
1933 did not produce any long-standing extreme cold records at Crater Lake National Park on the crest of the Cascades, some 180 air miles to the southwest of Seneca. However, two Oregon extreme snowfall records were set during the winter of 1932-1933 at Crater Lake. The first --- a monumental 879 inches of snow for the winter season (seventy-three feet of snow, as high as an nine-story building). The second---Oregon's monthly State snowfall record of 256 inches, set during January, 1933. This was just weeks before Seneca was hit with stunning 54 degree below zero temperatures.... Oregon has not seen a winter to compare in the seventy years since then! .... Discussion: El Nino vs. La Nina: Modern science informs us that it is very likely that a strong La Nina was behind 1933's conjunction of severe cold and big snow-making storms in the mountains. To quote from State Climatologist George Taylor "...Extreme cold events occur almost exclusively during La Nina years." In correspondence with him, he stated, "1932-33 was an El Nino turning into a La Nina, much like this year (2007), though it happened in 1932 later in the year. Often those transition years produce the most extreme events."
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Now that's some snow!
1933, Crater Lake National Park, 6,400 ft, Oregon Cascades, with notes about La Nina vs. El Nino
1933 did not produce any long-standing extreme cold records at Crater Lake National Park on the crest of the Cascades, some 180 air miles to the southwest of Seneca. However, two Oregon extreme snowfall records were set during the winter of 1932-1933 at Crater Lake. The first --- a monumental 879 inches of snow for the winter season (seventy-three feet of snow, as high as an nine-story building). The second---Oregon's monthly State snowfall record of 256 inches, set during January, 1933. This was just weeks before Seneca was hit with stunning 54 degree below zero temperatures.... Oregon has not seen a winter to compare in the seventy years since then! .... Discussion: El Nino vs. La Nina: Modern science informs us that it is very likely that a strong La Nina was behind 1933's conjunction of severe cold and big snow-making storms in the mountains. To quote from State Climatologist George Taylor "...Extreme cold events occur almost exclusively during La Nina years." In correspondence with him, he stated, "1932-33 was an El Nino turning into a La Nina, much like this year (2007), though it happened in 1932 later in the year. Often those transition years produce the most extreme events."
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Now that's some snow!
just like back in 97 or 98, la nina usually follows a el nino year, next year will make up for this one. i hope
snow pack
Ya know, this winter has been strange. But not much stranger than any other. The mountains around here are below normal snowpack, but they are still averaging like 70-85% and we usually (the mountains) get hammered in March and April. Sure, there's nothing on the valley floor... usually there is, but usually its December's snow. This year, it was frozen solid in November/December and then this. 40 for a high, 28 for a low, almost every day for weeks. Strange... but I've seen stranger in both directions and I'm only 36.
Sledding is still awesome here at the right elevations. Most places, from 5,000 up is good and better every 100 feet you climb. Some slopes are super deep, others aren't. Isn't that what happens in the mountains?
Ya know, this winter has been strange. But not much stranger than any other. The mountains around here are below normal snowpack, but they are still averaging like 70-85% and we usually (the mountains) get hammered in March and April. Sure, there's nothing on the valley floor... usually there is, but usually its December's snow. This year, it was frozen solid in November/December and then this. 40 for a high, 28 for a low, almost every day for weeks. Strange... but I've seen stranger in both directions and I'm only 36.
Sledding is still awesome here at the right elevations. Most places, from 5,000 up is good and better every 100 feet you climb. Some slopes are super deep, others aren't. Isn't that what happens in the mountains?
