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Even in the gorge a few hundred feet makes a big difference. White Salmon and the main part of Hood River above the river tend to do quite a bit better than Bingen and the waterfront portion of Hood River. They see a lot more continental influence out that way but there's still a handful of borderline snow events each winter that come around 32-33 degrees.

So it seems like with this week virtually everyone in the I-5 corridor has now avoided a goose egg this winter, save perhaps for some sea level locales near the Sound. Good work guys!!

1877-78 is what Ry Guy meant to say. 1888 was insanely cold from coast to coast.

Been the story of the whole week. We never quite made it to the magic -8c level with this airmass. -6c and persistent southerly flow just isn't enough to get it done.

Radar looks great, likely going to stay just a smidge too warm for accumulations though.

Just turned back to snow here with this line moving through.

1891-92 and 1868-69 were both awful, as well. You might be thinking of 1927 for the January event. 1925-26 had a low temp of 28 in Seattle with the lowest max for the winter at 39. I don't think either Portland or Seattle had a flake of snow that winter. Even Chilliwack only managed 0.5" that winter in late October, another victim of the Nino October curse.

Yeah, the F grades that I would hand out for winters at my location would probably be 2014-15, 2004-05, 2002-03, 1991-92, 1986-87, 1982-83, 1980-81, 1966-67, 1963-64, 1957-58, 1952-53, 1943-44, 1940-41, 1939-40 (back to back!!), 1930-31, 1925-26, and 1918-19. So about two per decade on average here, and next winter will mark a decade since our last one so we're definitely due. The 1980s and 1940s were the worst with three apiece. 1933-34 avoids an F simply because December 1933 looked like a pretty fun month.

The lack of snow sucks, but I think the F grades in our climate really should be reserved for the worst of the worst. A week of bitter cold and at least a handful of snow opportunities already makes this winter (and last) infinitely better than the 2002-03 types. The grading distribution would skew pretty heavily towards D/F in this climate otherwise. Our winters are capable of being really, really bad.

Should set us up nicely for a gloomy, wet April 25-June 20 period this year. Unlike last year.

Shoot, I was just down the street! Next time.

Your fault for not living on the right side of the river back then. The March snow was right there under your nose and your negligence cost you. Hope it stings.

Definitely snowed in the Portland metro that month, maybe not much if you were down at sea level. We had 2-3" on St. Patrick's Day morning in Clark County, plus 1/2" or so on the 7th. Standout stuff for the early 2000s snow dark ages.

Yeah, cold air all went east. Seems to happen less often these days!

Like Jim said, you must have been trying pretty hard to avoid the snow in March 2002. That was pretty universal and your current location definitely got slammed a few times.

Wouldn't that statistic be more meaningful if you had been living in the same place the entire time? Seems like you've been hopscotching around the region every few years. YVR has had plenty of March snow since 1990.

Weird temp progression too for such a strong Nino, with December being the warmest month. Gotta go back a long, long ways to find another example. I think 1939-40 was the last time we had that happen.

Fully switched here as well now. Big wet flakes.

Could get a slushy inch or 13 if this pattern works out for you.

Been trying to switch here but it seems to mostly be a westside thing for now. South wind has been keeping us at 36 here even with decent precip rates.

4pm temp of 34 on Monday at Eugene on the Euro. Not bad for March!

The 1974 airmass was legit though. 8 subfreezing highs and 6 straight lows in the single digits here. The lack of snow involved a fair amount of bad luck. Las Vegas ended up with over a foot of snow from that. You replay that blocking pattern 100 times and we probably come away from it snowier 99 times. In the grand scheme of things most all of our winters just come down to 1-2 week windows of opportunity like that anyways. So if the separation between the good and the bad is just whether the mesoscale details like snowfall work out, then assessing a winter's performance becomes a pretty subjective analysis.

Catastrophic developments.

East. I'm afraid this is Phillip's storm. He'll be on next week to tell us he told us so.