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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Contact:
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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Higley7, wow, do I remember that! Moved from Hartford to St. Louis a day or two after it hit. Two hundred miles on a sheet of ice, thousands of tractor trailers on the shoulder.
I think people have very much underestimated the “global warming ” story and santorum is the only one that has said its basically crap and thats why he will probably win. Both Gingrich and Romney have missed this big time.. my view anyway……
wouldn’t u know?
14 March: SMH: Ben Cubby: Carbon emissions hit a new record
GREENHOUSE gases have risen to their highest level since modern humans evolved, and Australian temperatures are now about a degree warmer than they were a century ago, a major review by the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology has found.
The national climate report, to be released today, said Australia’s current climate ”cannot be explained by natural variability alone” and that emissions resulting from human activity were playing an increasingly direct role in shaping temperatures…
”We saw a dip in carbon dioxide emissions during the global financial crisis, but that period is now over,” said the chief executive of the CSIRO, Megan Clark. ”Levels are now rising steadily again, in line with the trend.”
The carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached 390 parts per million in 2011, the highest level in 800,000 years.
The average day and night-time temperatures in Australia are now about a degree higher than they were a century ago, the State of the Climate 2012 report said.
”Multiple lines of evidence show that global warming continues and that human activities are mainly responsible,” it said…
Data gathered from gauges around the coast showed sea levels continuing to rise off Sydney and much of the NSW coast at a rate of about 5 millimetres per year, while some areas of the tropics, including Darwin, are seeing rises of up to 1 centimetre per year. Most of the rise is attributed to thermal expansion, or warmer water temperatures meaning that H20 molecules take up more space…
On average, global sea levels are about 21 centimetres higher today than they were in 1880, when reliable records began to be kept. The report also noted increases in heavy rainfall events across most of eastern Australia, but also more bushfires. The trend for Sydney is towards more monsoonal rains.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/carbon-emissions-hit-a-new-record-20120313-1uyk8.html#ixzz1p1Y7uDE1” title=”here”>here</a
Plus Video: CO2 levels on the increase
Dr Paul Fraser discusses the CSIRO changing atmosphere research group's latest findings on the increase of CO2 levels into the atmosphere.
gopher says:
March 13, 2012 at 3:34 pm
@Gail Combs says:12:25 pm
“By two African countries” do you mean one African country and one European country? Or were you just making a point that the US education system can’t teach world geography? 😉
The Republic of Cyprus is a Eurasian island nation in the East Mediterranean Sea so it is more or less in the middle east. Kinda splits the difference.
And no they did not teach us world geography either. At least not when I was in school. That was not even a course that was offered.
The local weather guessers are whispering about a chance of snow in the Texas Panhandle next week. We are due – each year a storm flattens the daffodils and zaps the flowering trees just before Easter. Otherwise it is rather warm for this time of year, but not excessively so. And looking back 60 years produces . . . the great drought of the 1950s. Greeaaaattt.
Sure is proof that climate change is here to stay.
AHA! Everyone knows that more snow is proof of CAGW. Or is that no snow? No, I’m pretty sure it’s more snow. Although I think I did read something about no snow proving it. Anyways, whichever it is, this snowstorm proves man made global warming is REAL.
Just keep in mind when It stops snowing, that also proves man made global warming is REAL.
Deniers!
TXRed, you’ve noticed the probability of snow, in proximity to Easter as well? It doesn’t matter if Easter comes early or late, there’s always a good chance, here in the Lubbock area at least. Awesome for track meets and baseball games!
Ian E says: March 13, 2012 at 12:09 pm
‘“Many residents along the coastline of Oregon awoke Tuesday morning ‘
What is it with you Americans – forgotten about prepositions like ‘on
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Most of the time when I wake up (rarely is it still morning), I wake up on my bed.
If it means more rain for northern California, I’m all for it.
Here in South Western Canada another dustihng of global warming is forcast for Thursday. The ski hills are already talking about the ski season extending into June! Enough Global Warming already!
What does this mean: “All of this taking place just a week before the official start of spring”?
When did spring, or any season, get an official start date?
Surely spring arrives when it’s good and ready to. Sometimes it’s early, sometimes late. Same goes for summer, winter and autumn.
Weathermen trying to put seasons into neat little parcels annoy me almost as much as warmists.
We had light snow in South King County, WA, off and on all night.
Contra Paddy @12:54, the wife reports that the wind started blowing hard in Seattle this morning, and then it started snowing like nobody’s business. I can attest that it was nearly white-out conditions in the vicinity of Boeing Field at about 4 PM; when I got to her office, it had stopped snowing, but the power was still out.
People living in these cold snowy areas shouldn’t worry. According to the settled Green House Effect science, they can warm their homes for free.
Just shovel lots of that cold snow on to your living room floors, shut the doors and windows and watch the radiation + back radiation increase the temperature of your room to well aboce 15DegC.
I mean, we see this happen with a -18DegC surface warming to 15DegC due to back radiation don’t we?
kbray in california says:
March 13, 2012 at 12:06 pm
The next funded study…
Increasing Fat = Increasing Snow
Makes sense. Look at the Venus of Villendorf, which dates to about 20+ kya. Pretty much the peak of the LGM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
I know. It’s wikipedia, but they have pictures.
Widely ignored in the general news is that this indicates more rapid heat flow off of the planet.
The deeper “Loopy jet stream” with ‘way cold’ dips down the west coast and warm protrusions up the east coast indicate that is is darned cold at the pole (where the bulk of the heat leaves) despite more rapid heat delivery (those warm north going lobes….)
In short, while there was added heat into the oceans before, it is now heat leaving. Takes a few years to finish, but we’re one our way. Next ‘low cycle’ of the 11 year sunspots is going to be a significant cold turn (given that this is supposed to be the ‘warm’ part…).
Americans need some new terms in general use for this unusual snow event. In Australia we have Professor Tim Flannery or as we call him Tom Foolery. He has been predicting permanent Global warming drought in Australia and our dumb governments spent billions on desalination plants. The only problem is that every time he visits some where or predicts droughts we get floods. Thus even tho’ we have been using the metric system for forty years an inch of rain is now referred to as a Flannery. ” We have had over four flanneries of rain in the last 24 hours” is now in our lexicon.
I would believe it is time for America to start using Mannians and Gorians as measures of rain and snow, whether inches or feet is irrelevant, for it is satire of buffoonery that will hurt them the deepest. They deserve no less.
That’s a typical March here on Long Island. But, we’re hardly having a typical winter. Less than 6″ of snow in total.
Doesn’t look like any temperature records were broken in the PNW lately though.
So there have been two posts now on an unusually strong, though not record-breaking, snowfall in the Northwest, and not a single word about record high temperatures throughout the Midwest and Northeast. We are probably witnessing the warmest month of March on record in half of the country. That’s not interesting? I guess weather is only news here if its cold weather.
EM Smith, there is highly anomalous heat at the north pole right now.
Peter,
You’re confusing regional climate with global temperature. Maybe this will help.
wayne Job says:
March 14, 2012 at 12:52 am
I wonder what a Huhne could be in the UK!
DaveE.