It’s still too early to know if you’ll enjoy a White Christmas this year, but it looks like Mother Nature is setting the table for an active Christmas at the very least. Marilyn Lohmann with the National Weather Service says over the next couple of weeks, she expected systems to roll across the Pacific Northwest every 24-36 hours.

“At this time, we don’t see any really strong push of really cold air at least through the seven-day period.  Now, looking out a little beyond that we do indicate a little more of a northerly flow so we may see that colder than normal temperatures come in maybe the wee of Christmas, so maybe something to look forward to then.”

Is this more active pattern connected to the La Niña weather expects have been warning us about?

Lohmann said the record rains we saw in western Oregon and Washington last month were more of an isolated incident, while the most recent weekend weather that dumped feet of snow in the higher elevations, was connected to La Niña.

“We are seeing that La Niña pattern as we mentioned, with the High Pressure a little bit further west out over the ocean and passing storm systems.  It’s an overall shift to our maybe more typical La Niña overall weather pattern with some more frequent systems moving through as well.”

Why has southern Oregon missed out on these recent storms, and will that change any time soon? To find out listen to our entire Ag Weather In Depth conversation with Lohmann.




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