Well, it is the day after and I hope all went well with your holiday festivities — and perhaps a useful gift for those weather watchers, eh? The weather certainly has been in the doldrums with the train still parked at the station. Medium-range models do show an infiltration of colder air later this week, with maybe a flurry or two. But, as we all know, things have to come together just right, so I must at least mention the possibility of cold and snow. Certainly after New Year’s, there may be some frigid air.
You probably wouldn’t have known it, but it was a tad bit windy in the Gorge on Saturday. Actually, more like a windstorm, with wind speeds of 60-80 mph. Further west over much of the metro area, hardly a breeze.
No white Christmas this time around, but memories were shared with me in a Christmas Day e-mail from fellow watcher Roland Derksen in Vancouver, B.C. He writes:
“It’s a rainy mild Christmas morning here(49F), so no snow in the city, and probably a lot of snow melting on the ski slopes just to the north of us. I couldn’t help but remember a Christmas many years ago when I learned the hard truth that white Christmases were the exception, not the normal in Vancouver, B.C. It was in December 1966, I had just turned eight and was expecting a white Christmas. Why not? The previous two were and I thought it would simply happen again. But Christmas 1966 didn’t turn out snowy and I felt betrayed! I eventually discovered that it was a rarity, as the next few also were ‘green.’ It wasn’t until Dec. 25th, 1971, that we had our next white one. Then after that, I had to wait another 19 years!
