Dave

Would you rather have Portland's December 2008 or Eugene's December 2013/February 2014 combo? 

I would trade Eugene's December 2013/February 2014 combo and my left nut for Portland's Dec 2008.  I have never observed 15 - 20" depth on the valley floor before.  BTW, you forgot about March, 2012.

Looks like parts of Eugene had some decent straightline winds with the storm overnight.

http://kval.com/resources/media/07c216d5-2fc5-447b-80a5-7a83a3781a07-SharonMatthewsphotooftreesdownonCoralyAvenue.jpg

65 degrees in Redmond (Oregon) at 11:00pm.  Crazy for mid December.  Redmond was an ice cube only a few days ago.

I've noticed that with Pendleton too. They sometimes have lengthy AFDs but not nearly as descriptive as Portland. A different problem I have is the lack of focus on the edge areas of forecast areas. Eugene and Bend are on the edges and are rarely the focus of the discussions.

Even more frustrating is the crappy radar coverage in Eugene and even more so in Bend.  It can be dumping snow in Bend and the radar barely shows a thing.

No 4pm obs. That's too bad. I was curious where the highs ended up.

This page has the 4pm obs.  Doesn't have tigard though:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/prodsByState.php?state=OR&prodtype=hourly

Already 22 degrees here.  If we can somehow squeeze out some precip in the morning, it will likely at least start as freezing drizzle, especially considering how cold the ground is during this fake cold snap.  Not expecting anything terribly interesting though.

Thanks for the answer. We're up to a foot now so I'm more than satisfied.

My sister in Bend (Awbrey Butte) also confirms over a foot.  She also mentioned some nearby areas have up to two feet.  Quite an epic early snowstorm for central Oregon.

Only if you live at the airport, which is in a perfect cold air basin.

 

Other areas, including the town itself, don't get as cold at night.

 

On the infamous 12/08/13 cold morning, it may have been -10º at EUG, but it was in the single digits elsewhere.  At my place in the hills it only got down to +10º ... 20º warmer than EUG.

It was -2 at my house in the ferry street bridge area (valley floor).  I had planned to drip the faucets before I went to bed, but my pipes were already frozen by 11:00pm.  Whoops!

Astounding!  If I remember they also did very well in March 2012.  They have really kicked a** and historically they don't get nearly as much snow as Seattle.

Yes, recently we've done well compared to our PNW neighbors.  However, we got completely shafted in Dec 2008.  Two brief snowfalls of 3" each while Seattle and Portland had their biggest dumps in decades.

I would easily trade our recent luck for Portland 2008 snow depth and duration.

I haven't had a big snow gradient with the valley since December of 2012, which was actually a pretty snowy month up here. Then there are years like 2011-12 when I had nearly 100" on the season and Salem had about 5".

Were you there for 2008?  I heard that the snow depth got to 7 feet + in Detroit, which is absolutely astonishing.  The national guard was called in to help shovel off roofs.

Looks like I'll be in that all too familiar territory of telling friends (non weather followers) that "arctic air is coming" and then have them laugh at me when it falls apart again...

 

Weather weenie to my core.

Same here.  I'm an idiot for model riding over 7 days out.