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Week End Weather

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Living in Southwest Oregon I have came to expect mild winters. Our climate is moderated by the Pacific Ocean and it gets pretty warm in the summer and the winters are wet but not usually to cold.

Well, that has changed this week. We are expecting our first snow event of the year, high temperatures in the middle 30's and up to 6 inches of snow. This makes the weather forecast for this area significantly more important for me, as I work as a shipping supervisor and we are dependant on getting trailers to the dock .

So I started to explore the forecast sites and have been very impressed with the level of technology available to us. We have satellite photos, Doppler radar maps, and on demand weather forecasting. I don't claim to understand the half of it, but it sure looks and sounds impressive.

I am hoping that the forecast is wrong , but it sure looks threatening.

Please add your weather stories, and any of you metrologists out there try to explain to this poor laymen what the technology means.

posted by Ed's Thread @ 11:00 AM

1 Comments:

At 2:25 PM, Anonymous said…

I think our snow front here in Vancouver is heading your way in the next couple of days. We've had 10 centimetres on the ground so far and it doesnt look like it's going away anytime soon. The neighbors have taken out their snowmobiles for spin on the road :)