Whee.

[kyrielle]

Yeah, sort of expected that. The optimistic forecast fell over. It's still below freezing and not much improvement here where we are, and not supposed to get above freezing today. Isolated snow flurries. Tomorrow, snow, freezing rain, or rain (depending on what the temperature does). Christmas, it should start warming up and melting off.

By the weekend it still looks like it should be better. Hopefully it will.

It is getting better in the area in general, just not better enough for our surface streets and such. But it looks like they've reopened I-84 in the Gorge. It's been shut down for days for snow/ice conditions including high drifts, about a 40-mile stretch, but they have it open now. That's promising news (and at the very least probably improved life for all the people stuck at the last exit before the closure in each direction). The highways in general are getting better, though. We'll see. Maybe, maybe it will be good enough to get out today, or tomorrow sometime. I'm not betting on it, however.

ETA: I do have photos from the past week+, I just have to process and upload some. But that won't be until tonight at the earliest. They're really quite pretty, some of them.

ETA: It is probably a good sign of how grim things are that the public transportation in Wilsonville is completely closed down today. TriMet is keeping their main lines open only, but without our local transport we can't get to Trimet anyway. (And they may be about to reopen to the light rail to the airport - they're testing now.)

Comments

Snow begets snow

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

That's what the weather guy said this morning. Once you get enough of it on the ground all of the radiation from the Sun just gets reflected back into space. It stays cold and any additional precipitation just comes as more snow. I feel we are already doomed at this point as even the couple days of warmer weather that we have coming isn't going to be enough to melt much of this crap we have. I hope you fare better.

Re: Snow begets snow

[kyrielle]

Enh, here it mostly depends on the incoming air masses. We'll see. It should warm up this weekend, though. When they're predicting highs in the 40s, I'm feeling a little more confident that we might at least melt most of this. ;)

Re: Snow begets snow

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

We are supposed to be in the 40s for the next week or so except for Friday so I am little more optimistic. It may actually get into the low 50s here on Sunday and that would be sweet. I went out back to fill the feeders this morning and the snow back there is well above my boots so that's going to take a lot to melt. At least the roadways should clean up nicely over the next week or so and that's the important thing.

Merry Christmas Eve Day!