2023-10-07 22:36
This summer didn't stand out to me. It seemed about average: very dry, smoky days picked up about halfway through, and the typical number of bouts of heat. Maybe I'm just getting used to rol… Read More
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2022-10-22 23:21
This season cut sharply in two: a wet spring that stayed wet until the very end (mid-June, much later than normal), followed by an almost complete absence of rain for the next four months. S… Read More
2021-10-03 21:31
While smoke didn't plague western Oregon and Washington to the extent it did last year, though it did repeatedly reach the East Coast, record-setting heat in late June more than made up for… Read More
2020-10-06 18:08
This summer seemed to be clipping along normally until September hit. Not too long into it, major fires east of populated areas in OR and WA developed, largely from lighting strikes over ari… Read More
2019-10-05 23:00
This summer saw some well-placed (if still modest, until September) rain that prevented fires from overpowering the season as they'd done the previous two years. Temperatures were a shade le… Read More
2018-10-14 19:11
Nothing terribly notable about this summer. It saw forest-fire smoke for about a month in the middle. Check. It saw extreme heat in July and August. Check. It saw drought conditions. Check… Read More
2017-10-04 23:59
This summer of The Eclipse may have started a bit late, with wetter conditions than normal, but then the normal drought kicked in and temps were intense well into September in many locations… Read More
2016-10-04 19:08
Except for a fairly searing August, this summer could be considered "normal" or even below normal, particularly as compared to the last two years. Vancouver didn't even hit 90 degrees once… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The most notable feature of this summer was the record-breaking streak of dryness that began in July and looks to last until nearly mid-October.PDX broke the July 1-to-Sep 30 minimal rainfal… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This year’s summer makes an interesting comparison with last year’s, as both were influenced by a La Nina that lasted deep into spring if not summer itself, and both taken togeth… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
There’s no way around it: this was a temperate summer. No 100’s at all, no 90’s until after July 4th, a record-breaking amount of rain in May and June. I don’t recall… Read More
2015-10-07 23:24
The news this summer was the record-busting number of 90-degree-plus days in Portland (29) and Seattle (12).The lack of rain wasn't unusual, but it followed a spring with little rain and a w… Read More
2015-10-07 22:21
From all accounts, this was a warm summer, particularly for remarkably "high lows." That is, the nights just didn't cool off as they normally do, making relief from aggressive highs in… Read More
2010-10-07 23:18
Another summer gone by, and this one was memorable for all the wrong reasons. In the weather department, the reasons were twofold: the worst Portland heat wave on record, 10 days extending f… Read More
2008-10-02 19:29
Has it been a year already? This summer was notable for a surprising stretch of temperate weather in the second half of July, a time which typically features the worst weather of the y… Read More
2007-10-22 21:12
As I've done the last couple years on this blog, I like to summarize the summer that was in these parts. Subjectively, at least, this summer couldn't compare to 2006's notable heat waves, an… Read More
2007-07-24 01:25
So Opera Software released a new version of Opera last week after a short beta test period. You would think that they would take this opportunity to make their browser work better in Vista… Read More
2007-07-20 03:13
In no particular order. Some major some minor, but all annoying. I currently use v9.21/MSI in Windows Vista Ultimate, on a P4 3GHz (Hyperthreaded) with 2GB RAM. In Vista only, exiting O… Read More
2007-06-12 07:04
I'm sure there's a reason people want to live on the eastern sides of Great Lakes. I don't know what those reasons are, but there must be some. Anyway, some areas east of Lake Ontario have p… Read More
2006-09-30 05:19
Compared to last year's summer, this year's was hell, featuring four official heat waves in Portland (at least three consecutive days 90F or above) in less than two months, one of which was… Read More
2006-09-17 01:45
Summer weather this season, courtesy Weather Underground. With the absence of any days in the 90's in Seattle (though several were close), and no days in the 100's in Portland, along with un… Read More
2005-10-04 03:10
It's always amusing to track experts' predictions for the baseball playoffs, which have been so utterly unpredictable of late that a prognosticator stands barely more than a statistical chan… Read More
2005-10-04 00:56
Many have asked the question, but now we have an answer, thanks to a comprehensive list in The Oregonian last Sunday. The accompanying article put it best in these excerpts:You could argue t… Read More
2005-09-13 02:29
Mork may not have trademarked "Nano," but how is it that Creative didn't when they released their Zen Nano Plus back in April 2005?Along comes the iPod nano almost six months later and... no… Read More
2005-09-10 05:23
So I logged on to Bloglines tonight and received the following, which was so cute that I didn't even mind that Bloglines was down for maintenance:I'm the Bloglines Plumber. Bloglines is down… Read More
2005-09-08 18:13
Quoteth Paul Thurrott on Internet Nexus:I've written several times in the past that, contrary to the stated goals of the products, the shuffle algorithm employed by Apple in its iPod portabl… Read More
2005-09-08 17:41
We learn something every day. This week, courtesy of The Daily Show, I learned that the Bush administration is taking its missteps alphabetically, with a plague of locusts being next up Read More
2005-09-02 16:42
Quoteth Paul Thurrott in Wininfo:Microsoft now plans to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 on December 7, 2005, about three weeks later than the last schedule I obtained….…Microsoft cur… Read More
2005-09-02 06:20
Quoteth Bloglines about the recent problems with some feeds not updating in a timely fashion when read through Bloglines. I hope this does the trick:Feeds Not Being CrawledWe have discovered… Read More
2005-09-01 21:30
After a week using the fantastic Bloglines, which has finally allowed me to feel on top of my RSS feeds rather than vice-versa, I do have some criticisms, problems, and wishes. This list wil… Read More
2005-09-01 02:39
As you can see in my now-updated post of a few days ago, in which I described some issues I’m having with the superlative Web-based news aggregator Bloglines after having used it for a… Read More
2005-08-29 20:40
At about noon today, something that I believe is called “rain” fell out of something called “clouds” onto this little corner of Oregon.It only lasted for five or ten… Read More
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