What is wrong with this forecast? Snow in Portland in the middle of April? It is true! On Saturday, April 19, 2008 - we had snow falling. Just a few flakes and nothing would stick - so no snowmen this year. It did also hail quite a bit and that did make for nice piles of white in the grass. The weather forecasters also say we've got more to come in the next 24 hours.
Here is the forecast for the next five days for the Tualatin area - look at those temperatures. Last Saturday we had the upper 70°s and sunny days.
Compare the Portland forecast with the upper Wisconsin forecast. Sunny and 72°. I don't see any snow forecast. What is going on? Global warming in the midwest, and global cooling in the northwest?
Weather forecast graphics were provided by the National Weather Service in Portland, Oregon. I love their large graphical forecasts - called the Hourly Weather Graphs. They provide graphs showing predicted temperatures and % probability for other weather statistics for the next two days and more. The Mapped Observations are also a neat tool for seeing what the weather has been the past few days.
Happy forecasting!
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