11pm Tuesday…
The chilly and very dry air mass gave tons of weather stations east of the Cascades record lows on Tuesday morning. Here’s a list from the Pendleton NWS:
STATION PREVIOUS NEW RECORDS
RECORD/YEAR RECORD BEGAN
*JOHN DAY(CITY), OR 20 / 1960 19 1891
*LA GRANDE(CITY), OR 25 / 1992 25 (TIED) 1887
*LONG CREEK, OR 18 / 2008 18 (TIED) 1908
MEACHAM, OR 21 / 2011 20 1929
*MONUMENT 2, OR 24 / 1992 19 1915
*MORO, OR 26 / 2011 25 1897
PENDLETON(AIRPORT), OR 30 / 2011 26 1934
*PENDLETON(CITY), OR 29 / 2011 26 1889
*SISTERS, OR 17 / 2002 17 (TIED) 1958
REDMOND, OR 20 / 1961 18 1941
THE DALLES, OR 30 / 1972 28 1929
*GOLDENDALE, WA 24 / 1920 22 1905
Burns was 13 degrees and Baker City was 12, both records for the date. As you see below, Baker City hasn't seen a 12 degree temp in the 2nd half of April since the airport records began in the early 1940s!
Coming up…for those of you who think the 7 Day forecast never actually improves with time but most likely goes downhill? Not this time; it appears Thursday and Friday we’ll see temps stay in the mid 70s. The 00z WRF-GFS even tries to get us close to 80 on Friday…we’ll see.
So we may end up with 5 days of straight sunshine for this workweek!
Here’s the new 00z GFS ensemble chart:
You can still see the chilly showers for the weekend, but HUGE variety of solutions by the time we get to Tuesday. Anywhere from -4 to +17 at 850mb! There seems to be a “cold cluster” like the chilly/showery ECMWF, and a cluster showing upper level heights rising dramatically…Roll the dice…
Chief Meteorologist Mark Nelsen
FOX 12 Weather Blog 
Happy happy happy dry warm weather no rain, I had guys replacing my sewer line for the new owners it was great they did it today with no muddy mess. Perfect weather can’t wait for the 80s and 90s!
What an awesome day! 76 degrees, just beautiful! 🙂
Low 70s here and wall-to-wall sunshine.
While it’s been a VERY sunny spring so far here in Oregon *Sunshine hours anybody?* up in Washington has been a totally different story with many days of overcast and drizzle not going away until recently. A tale of two worlds.
I have kept track and when it comes to troughing I place my bets on the Euro and Canadian after tracking weather models in read only mode at Western.
They *The Euro and Canadian models* have been right especially for Washington where the GFS many times predicted widespread sunshine this spring with minimum clouds only to not be wrong but blasphemous when the *event* actually occurs while several times the Euro hinted at the GFS being wrong yet people turned a blind eye to it acting like it didn’t exist.
Selective memory I guess?
Only one poster regularly mentioned the Euro models but he got constantly teased for being *negative* but wounded up being right in the end many times.
4/23/2013 Oregon (All) Temperature Summary
Warmest:
High:82 at BROOKINGS( 79 ft)
Low: 56 at Brookings (US 10(150 ft) & RED MOUND(1753 ft)
Coldest:
High:29 at HOWARD Mt Howard(8150 ft)
Low: 6 at ANEROID LAKE #2 (7300 ft )
Largest Diurnal Change: 54 degrees
CHRISTMAS VALLEY (63/9 ) (4360 ft )
There were three stations in the single digits this morning in Oregon:
Here are the high/low temps with elevations:
CHRISTMAS VALLEY (63/9 ) (4360 ft )
FOSTER FLAT (61/8) (5000 ft)
ANEROID LAKE #2 (36/6) (7300 ft)
and also Yellowstone Lake , Wyoming was -11 this morning.
Good Lord, that’s insane! I was camping at Glass Butte this time last year, I’m so glad it wasn’t in the single digits then, though it did freeze and we had a dusting of graupel overnight our first night out.
I’ll take the “heights rising dramatically” ensemble members for a nice Maytide heatwave!
Oh, and “first”?
Maytide sounds like dishwasher soap.
Okay fine: BELTANE!
You in!
Hahaah! Funny stuff, arch!