HardDrinkinLincoln

Quite the thermal gradient at 925 mb.

Low temp this morning is 3° with 4 inches new snow from yesterday.

A picture from the archives (2007) to note the arrival of the freezing fog yesterday.

1.5 inches of snow this morning.

I thought it would be interesting to see how this fall heating season (beginning Oct. 1) compares to the last two years. I've plotted accumulated daily heating-degrees from the local Agrimet station here. This fall is starting out much cooler than 2016 and much much cooler than 2015.

Got above freezing today, high of 45 briefly. Snow finally sliding off the roof. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8CuinzWfFF9anQ4Mm8tMi1VUnM

Here is 5 am on 1/18/2012 in Vernonia getting ready for work.

Is that hyperventilating I here?

34° here and rain is now changing to snow.

Winter tires went on this afternoon.

This would make for a record breaking experience. Just eye candy, I know. http://maps1.pivotalweather.com/maps/models/cfs/2016112100/708/sfct.conus.png

You can see the temperature change at the higher elevation stations several hours ago in the south valley. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=pqr

For those of you who like to track the movement of fronts into and out of the NW here are some useful tools ... http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=nw&limit=1 http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=pqr http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=colriver http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=pdt http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=portland

The ice grows out of thin air on anything stationary. Not bad for an iPhone cam.

With 10 days of freezing fog any change will be an improvement.