Balmy? November? A little, yes.

Temps will tickle 60 degrees by day and not much cooler by night as warmer southern air makes its way over the Pacific Northwest this week. We will see rain and showers through the Thanksgiving holiday and then we will likely return to a more seasonal cooler pattern.

Last weeks snowstorm was a bit of a letdown for snow lovers as the NWS prediction of 3-6 inches amounted to about an inch. East of the Cascades was a very different tale as Central Oregon got dumped on! Weather is a difficult thing to predict, even for the meteorologists.

Get an early start on your holiday shopping during this brief warm period and be sure to soak it up, my friends, soak it up.

Brrr... here is a little taste of winter.

Today will mark the first cold weather of the year. I woke up to upper twenties with a serious howling wind out of the east. The wind chill factor was likely in the single digits this morning. Our high temperature will probably be stuck in the thirties and then overnight or in the morning tomorrow a system will arrive bringing us either a really cold rain or a mix of frozen precipitation. This won't be a significant winter event, but it will remind us that the next several months are essentially wintertime. Bundle up, and soak it up my friends, soak it up.

Some Sunnyliciousness is coming...

Take a look at this forecast! Finally; we might see some sunshine. Doesn't that just break your heart? We have been in a rainy mess for weeks on end and now that proverbial light is shining at the end of the tunnel. Thankfully it is not the light of an oncoming train.

We have been quite warm however, so far this autumn. I have yet to record a sub freezing temperature and I haven't even recorded a sub 40 degree temp yet. That has never happened this late in my 13 years at this location. November 7th and still not a single temp reading in the thirties? Wow! We have had a freight train of storms coming in, often packing sub-tropical moisture. October was very wet and November may follow suit. All of that said, it will get cold here real soon. Get out and enjoy up this bit of sunshiny goodness over the next several days, it will end.

Soak it up my friends, soak it up.

The 'Real' Autumn is Here

The second half of October was wet and wild. There was no shortage of rain and a couple of storms brought some serious winds along for the ride. But all that is so last month. While I am on the subject of last month here is the summary for October, 2014.

October turned out to be a tad warmer than average and loaded with nearly double my monthly average of the wet stuff. A whooping 7.33 inches of rain ended up in my rain gauge in contrast to a typical 4.15 inches. The wettest day was the 22nd with 2.01 inches and that was one of three days exceeding an inch. October had 17 days with precipitation and 10 sunny days.

Temps ran quite a bit warmer than normal with my lows averaging 50.32 degrees five above and highs averaging 65.30 which is four above. The warm day was the 6th with an 80.7 degree mark just one tenth of a degree warmer than second warmest the day before. The coldest afternoon high came on the 24th with a 53.7 reading. The coldest temp of the month was a warm 43.1 on the 2nd. The warmest overnight temp came on the 18th with a 55.2.

This October is officially the first in my 13 years at this location not to record a sub 40 degree temperature. Hmm, cold winter ahead? Warm winter? Ah who knows? The fall color is a little flat but I think it may just be a little late this year. The trees on Green Mountain are starting to flash some color. We will see. Get out and Soak it up, my friends; soak it up.