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Until it was brought up I would've assumed these mysterious noises were all a bunch of BS as I don't hear these things. Interesting though that the news media has picked up on this so called mysterious noise. Usually on a major newspaper anything that even hints at tin foil is banned often in an unjustified manner. Don't forget HARRP may be messing with the atmosphere and are creating electromagnet discharges which may come out as mysterious *booms* that no scientist can explain since they have a closed mind set to begin with. The old method is no longer working clearly and they need to be more open minded to adjust to the times.

Up to the mid 40s here in the Salem/Silverton area and wall to wall sunshine! You guys can keep you're snow though I hope you enjoy it and make the most of you're snow day. Is there any chances of an Artic Outbreak in the near or long term future? Dad and I are going to do yard work this afternoon and it's getting warmer out. Should we unwrap the hoses or is there another freeze to come? This morning it was right at 32F on the dot.

Temp increased to 50F. Sunny first half of the day and cloudy second. It started off as going to be a very beautiful day. Hopefully the line of storms can make it here to the valley.

Especially when certain members I won't name resorts to wish casting or fantasy casts to make storms bigger then they are which I can understand as our weather most of the time is boring. The PNW is as depressing as New Foundland Canada which is second to the foggiest and gloomiest area of North America. I think parts of the PNW should be annexed into British Columbia as certain areas of Washington resemble it so much.

I forgot to include according to the Statesman Journal downtown Silverton got 4 and 1/2 inches of snow during this event. From what other reports in the area it looks like we between Salem and Silverton got dry slotted. It seems since the 1980s that it's hard to get widespread snow where everybody gets nearly equal amounts. Now we have huge distinctions between Eugene/Portland and Seattle and the distinctions are becoming ever so more extreme.

February 1989 I think was slightly better structured and it even went down to a big fat 0F at KSLE airport so I guess between 89,93 and this is a toss up even though I never experienced either of those two events personally. I looked at Microfilm of the event at the library and Silverton got 12 inches of snow out of that one though I am not sure how long schools were closed in 89. When I get the chance I will print the article about it but am not sure how to post it on here for others to see? The Library has been closed for snow. What's the longest anybody has seen school stay closed in the PNW for weather purposes? Chemeketa Collage has been closed since Thursday with a closure tomorrow (Monday) as well as Salem Public Schools which are having a 5 day weekend. I do hope they can open with a late start Tuesday for their kids or their students will start falling behind in their indoctrination lessons.

Went up to 33F here in the Salem Area this afternoon and back down to 30F with everything in solid ice. Can't open the trash cans. Too bad we didn't have the 10F lows that were forecast for last Thursday. If we do get more moisture it will look like this by daylight tomorrow. (Russia Ice Storm)http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2010/11/216713,xcitefun-frozen-1.jpg

I have an indoor Accurate not sure how long they last though since it doesn't have a rain gauge. It's just a basic weather set to get me by. My temps yesterday here in the Salem Area have been in the upper 20s yet all the snow yesterday melted in Salem right away and the roads were just fine if you don't go up in the hills. School canceled yesterday in Salem but was open in Silverton which is MORE dangerous because half the students and teachers live up in the foothills. Salem could've gotten by with a 2 hour delay to allow time for the roads to melt. Today all schools are closed which is a good call. Silverton schools updated at midnight to all closed which I think it would've been suicide to try to stay open with how slick the roads are now. Even the Great Lake cities will shut down if there is any hints of ice.

Some Mario geek must be firing Bullet Bills with their canon. http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/new-super-mario-bros-u/thumb/4/4f/Bullet_Bill.jpg/228px-Bullet_Bill.jpg http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/new-super-mario-bros-u/thumb/4/4f/Bullet_Bill.jpg/228px-Bullet_Bill.jpg

Why not allow guest posting on this forum with a short spam captcha like adding 2x3 = insert number here to prove that the guest is not a spam bot.

Don't feel bad. I enjoy you're posts actually as you do cover both positive and negative sides of things and some people are only one sided it seems and will label you since they only read parts of quotes or take things out of context which seems to be a common problem on the internet not just on this forum. I can see why you get negative when we have constant wet springs because it's boring unless there is convective activity of any sorts or we have a string of sunny days.

I know. The 1930s had a lot of *dry* Artic Airmases though similar to today. When it did snow it was usually a cold zonal event and it would warm right up. T The USA seems to be in a *similar* pattern to the 30s with droughts in the midwest and West coast and at random times extreme heat in the east coast during summer and not as much snow in the winter for them either. I've notice about every 20 years almost on the dot we have a really bad drought year. After the 30s it happened in the 50s were a good chunk of the USA was in severe drought and they called it the gritty fifties. The 30s were the dirty thirties and the 50s were the gritty fifites and then another bad drought in the early to mid 70s with many smaller ones that didn't seem big individually but lasting many years allowed bad snowpacks for the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

I want a decent weather station this summer after I save up enough during the spring but still I don't want to go above 300$ if I can help it which is the price of a new game console. I want to start my own blog but I am going to wait until I have a really nice weather station to do so. My parents bought me an Oregon Scientific once but it was a pain in the butt to set up with Dad because of these really tiny screws which you couldn't use ordinary screws. They were hard to turn for Dad and the Oregon Scientific got wonky after our last ice storm in 2008. We had another brand I cannot remember that wounded up using solar batteries despite NOT saying so in the box and the batteries despite following instructions to the T would not charge. We held the button for the appropriate amount of time and the company even sent us another model for free after tellling them of the problem but still it would never work which we think it may have been because of constant cloud cover. The station wasn't too much down the drain thank goodness! The Oregon Craptific one not only had weird screw holes but Dad and I had to build a special stand to mount it on the fence post before it went wonkey after the ice storm.

Thanks Richard for rejoining but I was hoping to either use my WordPress account or my FB account but he won't accept either of those. I am learning C++ with Dad and also want to start my own Word Press blog as soon as I have enough money for a decent weather station with an automatic rain gauge which due to going on a vacation this March won't be until Spring just in time to record our string of 100Fs during the record breaking June heatwave here in Oregon we will hopefully get. I don't want an Open ID account just to make one post on his blog when I already have a Word Press account so I guess I just have to accept he doesn't like people talking to him. Some people seem to have an *attitude* about guests though I still will read his blog from time to time.

Nice webcam. Any schools delayed with that 2 inches? With such cold temps entering the Pacific Northwest does anybody think kids have a good chance of a bunch of 2 hour late starts due to the busses having a harder time starting up? In Central Indiana they closed school for a week back in early January when temps were down in the single digits at night because busses refused to start no matter how many times they turned the key.

I want to give Cliff Mass a big thank you for helping me understand the weather patterns during times it was boring and why we were having the ridges we were as I was very depressed about it not understanding what was going on. He even came up with a Seattle Excitement Index which I found fun and hope he uses for this year. The kicker is that he doesn't allow guest posting and has no contact forms which makes me wonder how people would let him know if his blog starts having *hiccups* or become inaccesable for strange reasons. I simply want to thank him for his techincal discussions.

I migrated from over there be I evacuated the blog because unless the weather is extreme only the same users over and over again joke about the weather models and rarely have any lengthly discussions that have meat to them and love to find fault with each other if someone doesn't understand another's post. I loved reading certain users posts who kept getting made fun of sadly as I learned a LOT about the weather from them and educated my parents on that matter. One particular user I adore is named Weather Dan once in a while posted neat information for Salem Oregon which I LOVED to read but he didn't get the responses he deserved for his hard work, he lived in the area for 40 years and has seen a lot more then Mark Nelson in his 20 year career who focuses on a narrow band of viewers. It's like going to a resturant and only getting brunch instead of the main la carte, great if you want a quick snack but if you're hungry for detailed weather then it won't be filling enough. Sometimes it seems to also be an Ego playground for Mark and I feel negative energy just from being there. This place at least in the old forums had lots of discussion and I am starting to see new topics in the PNW thread thankfully, hopefully THESE forums start growing leaps and bounds but not too fast though or we will implode. Are there any other blogs that are good? Cliff Mass is very good and gets QUITE technical but he doesn't let guest posts unlike Mark so it's usually only the same users over and over again. Also Cliff Mass has no way for me to thank him for his wonderful posts. What about Komo 4's blog?

What would down here in Salem Oregon area here resembeled? Medford?

So are we going to Limbo Some More with cold weather? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl00UU3m00s

Because they all want the one ring from Gollum so thus they are inclined to pass the riddle game? http://meganstuartsnotebook.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/bilboring.jpg

So would this be another PV event for us like early December?

How about wind speed,snowfall and sunshine hours? Does the US even record sunshine hours like Europe does?

So a positive AO keeps artic air locked into Canada and a -AO causes it to *spill* to the deep south? Does this concide with other factors like if it's a -AO and a negative NAO combined that will make it more likely for the East coast to be targeted with a PV? On the other hand if there is a -AO and a -PNA on the West Coast which is the best coast we will have ours? Anyways what is the status of the PNA? I once found a site that had all the ocean telecommunications in one index so I could access whatever I wanted but now when looking for it I couldn't find it.