From Steve Pierce, President, Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society
Vancouver, Washington (March 13th 2012) – “Many residents along the coastline of Oregon awoke Tuesday morning to no power, downed trees, closed roads and as much as 8″ of snow in a rare one-two punch. This storm will likely go down in the record books as one of the largest coastal snowstorms in the month of March ever recorded at some locations. Records date back to the late 1800’s along the Oregon coast. The last coastal snowstorm of this size in the month of March was in 1951 when between 4″ and 8″ inches of snow fell. What is even more rare about this storm is the fact that within 12 hours bewildered coastal residents went from 50 degrees with hurricane force wind gusts to 32 degrees and 6″ of snow. All of this taking place just a week before the official start of spring.”
“A strong Pacific storm raced ashore Monday morning bringing wind gusts to nearly 90 mph along the Oregon coast line. By sunset Monday, near record setting snows were falling along nearly the entire coastline of Oregon including the the shoreline beaches. Areas that were hit especially hard included Pacific City, Tillamook, Lincoln City, Newport and Florence, Oregon. This area spans about 100 miles. Hwy 101 near Cape Foulweather (just north of Newport, OR) was closed in both directions due to downed trees and stranded cars as snow fell on freshly fallen timber overnight. Here is a look at the snow totals as of Tuesday morning.” Special thanks to the Portland office of the National Weather Service for this information —
OREGON COAST
TILLAMOOK, OR = 8.5″
NEWPORT, OR = 6.0″
FLORENCE, OR = 5.0″
WILLAMETTE VALLEY
LIVINGSTON MTN – CAMAS, WA = 5.5″
HAPPY VALLEY, OR = 5.0″
BORING, OR = 4.0″
CANBY, OR = 2.5″
HAPPY VALLEY, OR = 2.0″
LONGVIEW, WA = 2.0″
CAMAS, WA = 2.0″
WASHOUGAL, WA = 2.0″
MILWAUKIE, OR = 1.2″
WILSONVILLE, OR = 1.1″
SALEM, OR = 1.0″
GRESHAM, OR = 1.0″
CASCADE MOUNTAINS
JUNE LAKE, WA = 21.0″
SPENCER MEADOWS, WA = 19.0″
SHEEP CANYON, WA = 17.0″
SURPRISE LAKES, WA = 15.0″
BENNETT PASS, MT HOOD, OR = 9.0″
MT HOOD MEADOWS, OR = 7.0″
GOVERNMENT CAMP, OR = 7.0″
TIMBERLINE LODGE, OR = 6.0″
MCKENZIE, OR = 6.0″
ROARING RIVER, OR = 6.0″
WILLAMETTE PASS, OR = 6.0″
TOMBSTONE, OR. = 3.0″
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Steve Pierce
President, Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society
Oregon AMS web site: http://www.ametsoc.org/chapters/oregon/
E-mail: stevejpierce “at” comcast.net
Phone: 503-504-2075
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All MSNBC is talking about is the record high temperatures in New England. Can’t take time to mention snow in the Northwest.
can you just hear the next new articles….storms getting worse…need i say more….
I forget…..is it cold or warm that causes snow now…..global weirding……../snark
Damn Groundhog. He called for 6 more weeks.
Hey Anthony…remember that pic you posted of Mt. Adams a few months ago? You ought to try to get a current picture, lol.
Partly cloudy, 39 degrees, winds breezy and from the southwest. According to my “Native American” Weather Stone… It’s cold! But I think the Puget Sound dodged this one.
OMG! All that anomalous heat dumped into the upper troposphere by the condensing and freezing DHMO; it’s gonna be runaway tip-top tipping points up there!
Or SLT.
/ ;p
The tail end of the the Oregon storm and the first of three storms forecast for us in Northern California isn’t looking too bad. We need the rain but don’t need the high winds or low snow levels. Too much damage results from that weather. Currently sprinkling, 47 F and the barometer is 29.93″ and rising here at 2500′ in central Calaveras County. No big winds either. All signs of a weakening storm. We’ll see what the next two bring.
It is worse than we thought, warm-cold has taken full hold!
The next funded study…
Increasing Fat = Increasing Snow
‘“Many residents along the coastline of Oregon awoke Tuesday morning ‘
What is it with you Americans – forgotten about prepositions like ‘on’? Reading that statement literally suggests that the residents woke up the morning – was it sleeping before that? I only ask because our journalists in the UK are copying this horrible mauling of the language … AND IT DRIVES ME MAD!
Global warming has struck again and turned the ground in Oregon white hot.
About 20 inches fell just west of Traverse City, the National Weather Service in Gaylord said. In the Upper Peninsula, 25 inches fell near Ishpeming in Marquette County.
The storm’s high winds and heavy snows downed tree limbs, cutting power to more than 200,000 residents and businesses throughout Lower Michigan.
As you can read above from a Michigan newspaper we just finished our big storm last weekend. Where I live we get about 8 inches of very wet heavy snow.
Ian E says:
March 13, 2012 at 12:09 pm
What is it with you Americans….
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The problem is “Progressive Education” thanks to John Dewey. Our schools are now at the bottom of the heap with only two African countries worse than us in education…..
http://grandfather-economic-report.com/education.htm
I have been a meteorologist for 50 years and I have never seen a pattern like this one in the month of March here in the US. The trough on the west coast is really pumping up the ridge to the east with 500 millibar heights forecast to exceed 582 decameters all the way up into southern Michigan, where I live. Heights are frequently lower than that in mid summer.
The high in Grand Rapids tomorrow may hit 75 degrees F. There have only been 7 times since 1954 when the temperature has exceeded 70 prior to March 14. It never happened prior to 1954. The earliest 80 degree reading is March 22 back in 1938, but we may hit that early next week.
The warmth should hold through the end of the month and from experience I would say the odds are well over 50-50 that we get a hard freeze in April that will do severe damage to fruit trees, flowering trees and shrubs. This pattern is great for golf but terrible for agriculture.
Has Al Gore been there? Somehow seems that he is been in Oregon. LOL
Have started the “Global Warming causes more snow” chatter, yet?
Well, I wonder if Gary Braasch will be updating us with an addition to his collection of Mt. Hood “glacier” photos? If you recall, he took some in Aug (before the hottest months) of 84′ after two years of higher than average parcipitation and then again in “late summer” of 02′ after two years of LOWER than average parcipitation AND almost 20 years of massive growth West of Mt. Hood. All as part of his business of selling photos to the AGW believers as proof of GW (oops, sorry – Climate Change) causing accelerated glacier melt.
If I knew how, I’d post the two pictures here with all the proper copyright notations, of course. And the picture I had my brother take a couple of years ago, (in Aug.) showing that glaciers were all back.
More of that “warm snow” falling as we speak on the BC coast.
My apologies to William Martin.Have added in NZ after my name,cheers
What did they name this Hurricane?
Hmm. I see the shape of things to come here in the Midwest next winter. Heh. Good times.
I don’t recall any heavy winds reaching the greater Seattle area. Precip was rain in an amount that is typical for winter. It is a little past noon, the sun is out and it is 40F now. The coast was pounded and both the Olympics and Cascades got big dumps of snow. Very interesting, no?
I woke up the morning (sorry, me go skool Merica) to the radio announcing that Winter and Spring never came to Chicago and it is Summer. Now me believe warm on globe. Education requiring I believe.
Amazing how there was no post at this website regarding the incredibly warm winter experienced throughout the continental United States this year, but you find time to post this.
[REPLY: Quit trying to jinx things. Never heard of the Watts Effect? Only my oil delivery guy is complaining about the warm winter. -REP]
Not much from MSNBC (or the Weather Channel) on west Texas’ record snows this season either.
Odessa Texas broke there daily snowfall and total season snowfall records this winter!
http://www.oaoa.com/articles/snow-78891-weather-morning.html