Portland, OR

I always seem to miss Portland’s coldest weather. Not to say I am sorry about that, but as I am in Michigan, where it is always a snow day or should be considered one, it’s not like I am missing out on the cold and snow. I just really wanted to experience a Portland Snow Day.

First, this is a classic video of another snow day from 2007. It is just too funny.

For all those bundled up indoors, here’s some random weather facts courtesy Oregonphotos.com. Mostly.

The absolute coldest temperature recorded in Oregon was 54 degrees below zero (and yes, that’s Fahrenheit). And get this, that temp was recorded not once, but twice in two different places (Ukiah and Seneca), though the dates were consecutive days, February 9th and 10th back in 1933.

That’s about as cold as Antarctica’s coastal areas get in the winter. Granted, the elevations of Ukiah and Seneca are much, much higher than Portland, so I doubt that kind of cold could come to Stumptown.

However, the lowest temperature on record for Portland is 19 below zero, which occurred on February 2, 1950. That’s more like an Antarctic summer…

And for those of you lamenting the snowfall Portland received yesterday and coming later this week, just be glad it’s not 1892. That winter, Portland received more than 60 inches of snow.

According to the National Weather Service, the heaviest snowfall that Portland received in one day was 8 inches. Gee, that’s not so bad, but it was during the winter of 1950, and in that January, Portland had 22 inches during that blustery blizzard. The NWS has it that Portland had 15 inches as the greatest snow depth that month. My question is what happened to the other 7 inches (ha, that’s what she said — wow, cannot believe I wrote that).

Anyway, Portland, enjoy the snow. At least you are not in Minnesota…for more reasons than just the snow, right. Sorry, Minnesota.

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