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-20 huh? good lord! Yeah most likely not. But then again I've been in the house pretty much all summer here in AZ. I don't know -20 is damn cold but I'm going to give a shot. In Portland it doesn't get nearly that cold but it doesn't hardly ever snow. You just get a cold drizzle and rain for 10 months. I can tough staying in the house for a couple months like I do in Arizona but 10 months of non stop yuck is just not fun. I'm looking for some place that I can enjoy for at least 6 months out of the year. Oregon was very pretty but you never want to go out and enjoy it because it's ALWAYS raining. Hell you don't even want to look out the windows.
-20 with the windchill factored in yes - but only on rare occasions and I don't recall any time where it actually got that low around here without windchill factor.. And once very couple years we'll have a short stretch in winter where the temperature is in single digits during the day and below zero at night. But it almost never gets lower than -5 to -10.
More typical winter weather is days in the high teens to mid 20's with nights in the teens. A few weeks or a month of that gets broken up by some warmer spells where it hits the low to mid 30's and occasionally arms up even more with a day or two or rain and a nearly total melt-off of accumulated snow. Then we start all over again with more snow.
And every now and then we get a winter (like 2006 -2007 if I recall correctly) where we get snow on the ground shortly after Thanksgiving and it just keeps piling up until March.
Thanks for clearing that up. I never remember seeing the news report -20 weather anywhere in the country. That seemed a little low to me but then again I don't live there yet.
The winters are never the same from year to year. A couple years ago we didn't have any snow until January (highly unusual) and then got slammed with snow in February.
Generally speaking... the very earliest snowfall comes in late October (extremely rare!). More commonly the first snow is in mid or late November. The latest snowfall I've ever seen (just a dusting) was on Mother's Day. That was exceedingly unusual, not to mention horrifying. But usually March is a complete lost cause temperature-wise and things don't warm up until April.
I do know that when it's bitterly cold or brutally hot I'll need to dress and act accordingly. I understand the validity of the windchill factor reporting due to the risk of frostbite on exposed areas. But I laugh when hearing the new RealFeel™ numbers from TV weather reports. It appears that a revolutionary new weather science reporting breakthrough has revealed that a given temperature feels hotter when humidity levels are higher than it does when they're lower. Who would have guessed? ;-)
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