Is this winter ever going to end???

Bryophyte

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It has started snowing at my house again, and it's supposed to continue until Monday. :| Last weekend, the weather was in the 80s. :Q A couple weeks ago, we got 18 inches of snow over a few days' time.

I'm ready for summer. I'm all out of firewood. :(


Edit: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Bryophyte/snow21April2008.JPG
">Still snowing on Monday.</a>
 

hanoverphist

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it was over 100 this week here... tomorrow its supposed to be in the 90s again. id say it was gone.
 

Bryophyte

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I just finished making ten hanging baskets (of flowering annuals) for my porch a few days ago, and I had to take them into the greenhouse yesterday so they'd live through the next week of weather. :|
 
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As a resident of the Portland Metro area, you, madam, are a liar. It's not snowing... Where are you located, anyway?
 

Baked

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The end is near. I think I'm just gonna start drinking beer and surfing porn at work.
 
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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
City: near Hillsboro
Province/State: Oregon

liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiies.

50 and slight rain in MN.

To be fair, Hillsboro is a 10 minute drive from Portland. But still, it's not snowing. And 18" a few weeks ago? WTF man? Portland's received a total of like 2 inches of snow all year.
 

Dirigible

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Originally posted by: Baked
The end is near. I think I'm just gonna start drinking beer and surfing porn at work.

You're years late to the party, friend. Glad you finally made it though.
 

compman25

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Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
City: near Hillsboro
Province/State: Oregon

liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiies.

50 and slight rain in MN.

To be fair, Hillsboro is a 10 minute drive from Portland. But still, it's not snowing. And 18" a few weeks ago? WTF man? Portland's received a total of like 2 inches of snow all year.

maybe he meant cm? :D I've wondered how he got those amounts also.
 

BZeto

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Fucking ATOT. I saw this thread title earlier and was just talking to someone visiting here from Portland, so I brought up the fact that it is snowing there. Now they're gonna think I'm an idiot.
 
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Originally posted by: BZeto
Fucking ATOT. I saw this thread title earlier and was just talking to someone visiting here from Portland, so I brought up the fact that it is snowing there. Now they're gonna know I'm an idiot.

Fixed.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
As a resident of the Portland Metro area, you, sir, are a liar. It's not snowing... Where are you located, anyway?

Bryophte (a she BTW) lives out where the banjos play... loudly :p

No, seriously, up in the hills north of Hillsboro at about 1500 feet elevation. They get a quite a bit of snow up there.
But it's been a hell of a year. I went out to the beach a couple of weeks ago and there was still plenty of snow up at the top of the Sunset Hwy summit (about 1600 feet).

And after last weekend's glorious summer-like sun, it is supposed to suck here this weekend. They're saying snow levels down to 500 feet in the West Hills (and Council Crest is 1070 feet high) and temps near freezing.

I blame global warming! brr... ;)
 
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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
As a resident of the Portland Metro area, you, sir, are a liar. It's not snowing... Where are you located, anyway?

Bryophte (a she BTW) lives out where the banjos play... loudly :p

No, seriously, up in the hills north of Hillsboro at about 1500 feet elevation. They get a quite a bit of snow up there.
But it's been a hell of a year. I went out to the beach a couple of weeks ago and there was still plenty of snow up at the top of the Sunset Hwy summit (about 1600 feet).

And after last weekend's glorious summer-like sun, it is supposed to suck here this weekend. They're saying snow levels down to 500 feet in the West Hills (and Council Crest is 1070 feet high) and temps near freezing.

I blame global warming! brr... ;)

God I hope it snows all weekend. I work at a school in Raleigh Hills. If it snows, I get the day off. One of the perks to being around little fucking bastards all day...

Oh, and I didn't know Bryophyte was a woman. Edited my original post.
 

T9D

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Dam it man it better not snow. Or it better not stick. I have an old guy driving out to eastern oregon monday to close on a house he bought from me. He better be able to get here. I've already had to many delays because the total idiot ladies at the title company.
 

Vic

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I wouldn't count on snow in Raleigh Hills. That's only ~250 feet. And up and over Capitol Hwy through Hillsdale is only like 500. Plus I doubt any of it will stick.

Eastern Oregon OTOH is supposed to get hammered.

And you east coasters enjoy that warm weather for the brief while it lasts. We had it last weekend.
 

BoomerD

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Maybe this will make you feel better:

http://green.yahoo.com/news/ap...n_sc/march_warmth.html


March the warmest on record over world land surfaces

"WASHINGTON - Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide. For the United States, however, it was just an average March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.

NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said high temperatures over much of Asia pulled the worldwide land temperature up to an average of 40.8 degrees Fahrenheit (4.9 degrees Celsius), 3.2 degrees (1.8 C) warmer than the average in the 20th century.

While Asia had its greatest January snow cover this year, warm March readings caused a rapid melt and March snow cover on the continent was a record low.

Global ocean temperatures were the 13th warmest on record, with a weakening of the La Nina conditions that cool the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Overall land and sea surface temperatures for the world were second highest in 129 years of record keeping, trailing only 2002, the agency said.

Warming conditions in recent decades have continued to raise concern about global climate change, which many weather and climate experts believe is related to gases released into the atmosphere by industrial and transportation processes.

The climate center said that for the 48 contiguous United States it was about average, ranking as the 63rd warmest March in 113 years of record keeping.

The average temperature for the U.S. in March was 42 degrees, 0.4 degrees below the 20th century mean.

The agency said only Rhode Island, New Mexico and Arizona were warmer than average, while near-average temperatures occurred in 39 other states. The monthly temperature for Alaska was the 17th warmest on record.

The snow pack declined in many parts of the West in March, but the Western snow pack remains the best in more than a decade thanks to heavy snowfall December through February.

For the month, nine states from Oklahoma to Vermont were much wetter than average, with Missouri experiencing its second wettest March on record.

Moderate to extreme drought remains in much of the Southeast despite rainfall in the middle of the month.

 

nageov3t

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I wonder if an earlier spring will yield better crops to decrease grain prices.

I'm tired of paying $13 for a pizza.
 

ElFenix

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55 at 10:30 this morning in houston. now 77. the high was supposed to be 70 at midnight last night.

manbearpig.
 

sandorski

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I hear ya dude. We had 1 day of 23c 5 or 6 days ago which was nice, but for the last month it's been typical Winter 10c or less in these parts. It is suck!!