Alltime Low Temperature Records Are Continuing to Fall Across the Russian Federation
Vancouver, Washington (March 22nd 2012) – "Many cities across Western Oregon and Southwest Washington are setting all-time cold and snowfall records for this late in the season. Since Tuesday night, the Willamette Valley has been blanketed with anywhere from 2″ to 9″ of snow from Vancouver, WA. south to Eugene, Oregon.
Since Tuesday evening, many all-time March snowfall and temperature records have been broken up and down the Willamette Valley at airport locations. Portland, Salem, Eugene and Vancouver, WA. airports all set new coldest daytime high temperature records on Wednesday in addition to setting new all-time records for the heaviest snowfall this late in the season. Eugene, Oregon easily broke their maximum daily precipitation record for Wednesday with 1.92 inches with equated to a record setting 7.5″ of snowfall on Wednesday."
"The Portland International Airport recorded 0.5″ of snowfall overnight last night which sets a new all-time record for that location. March 22nd 2012 will now go down in the record books as the latest measurable snowfall in Portland Airport history. The period of record at the Portland airport is 1940-2012.
The previous latest snowfall on record for the Portland airport was set on March 15th 1946. The excellent staff at the Portland office of the National Weather Service have reviewed daily records that previously indicated both March 20th 1995 and March 25th 1965 as the latest dates for measurable snowfall in Portland.
These reports were in fact hail, not snow! Hail was often reported under the snow column on the record sheets. Looking even further back, downtown Portland records indicate that as much as 5″ of snow fell in the first week of April in 1936. Records in downtown Portland date back to 1872. It is hard to believe that spring break is just 24 hours away for Oregon students."
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Image added by Anthony – source: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/index.html?year=2012&month=3&day=22&units=e®ion=Northwest
Info/PR from: Steve Pierce President, Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society
Oregon AMS web site: http://www.ametsoc.org/chapters/oregon/
E-mail: stevejpierce at comcast.net Phone: 503-504-2075
Here's the official NWS record:
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RERPQR RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON 840 AM PDT THU MAR 22 2012 ...RECORD SETTING LATE SNOW EVENT FOR MUCH OF WILLAMETTE AND LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER VALLEY AREA OVER THE LAST 36 HOURS... A FRONT STALLED OVER SOUTH LANE AND NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY TUESDAY NIGHT...THEN LIFTED NORTH A BIT BEFORE HEADING EAST OF THE CASCADES. HEAVY PRECIPITATION FELL ACROSS THE REGION...BUT NORTH OF THE FRONT SNOW LEVELS WERE VERY LOW...WITH HEAVY SNOW THE RESULT IN THE SOUTH AND CENTRAL VALLEY YESTERDAY...AND THE CENTRAL AND NORTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY INTO CLARK COUNTY OVERNIGHT. HEAVY SNOW ALSO FELL IN THE CASCADES DURING THIS TIME PERIOD...WITH 1 TO 3 FEET OF SNOW OVER THE HIGHER CASCADES. WITH THE HEAVY WET SNOW...MANY AREAS HAVE EXPERIENCED DOWNED POWER LINES RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. IN ADDITION...MANY TREE BRANCHES HAVE BEEN BROKEN BY THE WEIGHT OF THE WET SNOW. THIS EVENT WILL BE ONE THAT LOCAL RESIDENTS WILL NOT SOON FORGET. ============================================================= ACROSS CITY OF PORTLAND... 0.5 TO 3 INCHES...BUT 3 TO 7 INCHES OVER THE HIGHER HILLS OF THE METRO AREA. AT PORTLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE (NEAR THE AIRPORT)... *** STORM TOTAL.... 0.5 INCH OF SNOW THIS IS A RECORD LATEST MEASURED SNOWFALL AT THE AIRPORT. ** 2012 MARCH 22 0.5 INCH *** NEW RECORD *** 1946 MARCH 15 0.5 INCH PREVIOUS RECORD RECORDS SHOW 0.4 INCH IN 1995 AND 0.3 INCH IN 1965...BUT BOTH OF THESE EVENTS WERE SMALL HAIL ACCUMULATIONS. HERE IS HOW IT COMPARES TO OTHER LATE SEASON SNOW EVENTS (WITH STORM TOTALS). ** 2012 MARCH 21-22 0.5 INCHES 1950 MARCH 10 0.8 INCH 1951 MARCH 3-10 12.9 INCHES 1956 MARCH 5 1.8 INCHES 1960 MARCH 2-3 2.6 INCHES 1989 MARCH 1-2 2.0 INCHES OF NOTE... DOWNTOWN PORTLAND HAS RECEIVED MEASURABLE SNOW IN APRIL...WITH THE LARGEST EVENT OCCURRING IN 1936 WHEN 5.2 INCHES FELL ON APRIL 1...WITH THAT STORM TOTAL OF 6.8 INCHES (MARCH 28 THROUGH APRIL 1). THE LATEST THAT DOWNTOWN HAS RECEIVED MEASURABLE SNOW WAS APRIL 14 1924...WHEN 0.1 INCH OF SNOW FELL IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND. ON AVERAGE...PORTLAND AIRPORT RECEIVES 0.2 INCH OF SNOW IN MARCH. SNOWFALL RECORDS AT THE AIRPORT DATE BACK TO 1940. DOWNTOWN RECORDS DATE BACK TO 1872. ============================================================= CITY OF EUGENE... 6 TO 10 INCHES...HEAVIEST IN SOUTH HILLS. AT THE EUGENE AIRPORT... *** STORM TOTAL.... 7.5 INCHES OF SNOW THIS IS THE BIGGEST SNOWSTORM TO STRIKE THE EUGENE AREA THIS LATE IN THE WINTER SEASON. HERE IS HOW IT COMPARES TO OTHER RECORD LATE SNOWFALLS OF THE WINTER SEASON (WITH STORM TOTALS). ** 2012 MARCH 20-21 7.5 INCHES 1951 MARCH 5-7 7.6 INCHES 1916 MARCH 3-4 13.7 INCHES HOWEVER...IT IS NOT THE LATEST MEASURED SNOWFALL. THE LATEST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL OF THE WINTER SEASON AT THE EUGENE AIRPORT... 1911 APRIL 13 0.3 INCH ON AVERAGE...EUGENE RECEIVES 0.5 INCH OF SNOW IN MARCH. RECORDS FOR EUGENE DATE BACK TO 1892. ============================================================= AROUND THE CITY OF SALEM... 2 TO 7 INCHES OF SNOW FELL... WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS ON THE HILLS IN SOUTH SALEM. AT THE SALEM AIRPORT... **** STORM TOTAL.... 2.5 INCHES OF SNOW THIS IS THE BIGGEST SNOWSTORM TO STRIKE SALEM THIS LATE IN THE WINTER SEASON. HERE IS HOW IT COMPARES TO OTHER RECORD LATE SNOWFALLS OF THE WINTER SEASON (WITH STORM TOTALS). ** 2012 MARCH 21-22 2.5 INCHES 1951 MARCH 5-9 9.6 INCHES 1960 MARCH 3-4 8.5 INCHES BUT THIS IS NOT THE LATEST MEASURED SNOWFALL. THE LATEST MEASURABLE SNOW EVENTS OF THE WINTER SEASON AT SALEM AIRPORT... 1920 MARCH 31 1.5 INCHES ON AVERAGE...SALEM RECEIVES 0.3 INCH OF SNOW IN MARCH. RECORDS FOR SALEM DATE BACK TO 1892. ===============================================================
Source: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/22/all-time-snowfall-records-fall-across-western-oregon-sw-washington/
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