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With our area being always hot now and such a huge difference in temp gradients between Oregon/Washington quite self evident (The further south of Portland the hotter the summers are now) is this a new trend or will there be a reversal of our hot summers/mild winters?
Feb came REAL close to a block buster but fell short and mostly became a Portland east event with the central valley the butt end of the ice storm. South of there was never below 50F for the highs!
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With our area being always hot now and such a huge difference in temp gradients between Oregon/Washington quite self evident (The further south of Portland the hotter the summers are now) is this a new trend or will there be a reversal of our hot summers/mild winters?
Feb came REAL close to a block buster but fell short and mostly became a Portland east event with the central valley the butt end of the ice storm. South of there was never below 50F for the highs!
Not sure about that. They seem to be stocking up on winter gear in Eugene.
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Eugene has 2 new snow plows, increasing winter storm response fleet to 14 vehicles
Published 10:21 a.m. PT Feb. 2, 2021
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Eugene Public Works received two new 5-yard dump trucks with attached plows last week. The snowplows were purchased for $43,000 each to replace two older trucks that did not have plows attached.
The new vehicles bring the city's fleet up to 14 vehicles that can be used to plow, sand or deice city streets and bike and pedestrian paths.
Eric Johnson, who heads the public works division in charge of maintaining streets, said it's "exciting to expand our snow and ice response capabilities to help respond to more extreme storms."
"During the February 2018 snow storm, which blanketed the City with up to 24 (inches) of snow, it was apparent that we needed more tools to battle the higher intensity, more frequent storms we’ve experienced over the last few years," Johnson said in a statement. "Since then, we’ve added four more plows and expanded our winter weather operations and training to make our city safer."
The Rogue Valley has the best climate in Oregon IMO so if the Willamette Valley can get that, great for them. I lived a few years in the Willamette Valley and just couldn't take the gray winters.
The Rogue Valley has the best climate in Oregon IMO so if the Willamette Valley can get that, great for them. I lived a few years in the Willamette Valley and just couldn't take the gray winters.
Cool let’s just destroy the natural climate of an area and the surrounding areas to make it more appealing for you
I don't think there ever was a particularly huge gap between the climate in say Eugene and Medford. Both always had pronounced summer dry seasons and thus warm/sunny summers.
If present trends continue, the central and southern Willamette Valley will, for the near term, transition to a Climate very similar to the one Roseburg has today. 2020 thru 2050 average yearly rainfall totals will probably drop off 2 to 5 inches and June through August tempreratures will be two to three degrees higher than present.
For someone like me who grows nearly everthing I eat, the extra heat in during the growing season will allow me to grow warm weather crops such as peaches, melons and peppers more easily while still retaining enough cold to satisfy dormancy requirements for those veggies that need it. I would be thrilled except for the fact that what's driving this transition has a critical negative impact on other parts of the world.
California, as a nearby example. What's headed for them is a terrifyingly drier regime that, for all intents and purposes is permanent. Annual rainfall averages for the entire Sacramento/San Joachin complex will fall from the already inadequate levels now to amounts that will make it impossible to grow the crops now dominating the region - even with what little irrigation water that's potentially available, let alone what they're allotted.
Circling back to the Willamette valley...Roseburg won't stop at Corvallis. That climate will continue to head north as the Great Drying continues and may not stop until the southern Puget Sound region. What that means for Eugene and Corvallis going forward into the 22nd century is the transitions continuing to something akin to Grants Pass, then Medford and perhaps as far as a somewhat cooler but no less dry Red Bluff.
I've been there; I wouldn't like that very much.
Idk how it is in Oregon, but in western Washington our winters are getting warmer and wetter and summers are getting hotter and drier, pretty much we are just going to be El Niño every year in the future.
Cool let’s just destroy the natural climate of an area and the surrounding areas to make it more appealing for you
Yeah that's definitely what they asked for! You need to chill out
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