QuickCast

Just a quick weather blurb after writing up the rant below. Our weather pattern has sort of underachieved in some ways over the last week with fairly sporadic and spotty snowfalls and not as widespread of really cold temps that the models had advertised. Sure, we're not exactly living in an Alaskan type climate, but this pattern analogs well with some pretty historic weather.

Saturday into sunday is still looking like a pretty big deal, and blog readers have probably heard all about what might be coming. Even a somewhat watered down scenario will likely be a significant ordeal. I would not recommend being out on the roads by saturday night as heavy snow will develop along with strong east winds. Blizzard type conditions anywhere near the Gorge. Snow estimates are as high as 12" on some models before changing to sleet, then possibly the dreaded freezing rain on sunday. In the Portland area, in this regime it almost never warms up as fast as the models predict. Enough cold air will hang around east of us that next tues/X-mas Eve also bears close watching.