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Downtown Pdx florist. Going Floral Blog Hubby/Dad Science/Skepticism Blazers/Raiders/Aces. No. 1 reply guy posting too much shit. Black Lives Matter (he/him)

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · Mar 9

Repeating my request that @trailblazers.bsky.social make the video and audio from this clip into the intro for every tv and radio broadcast until we have another championship to celebrate.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 10m

Tonja encourages everyone to be “Weather Ready” keep an emergency kit in your car. (Don’t forget TP)

The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 10m

The climate prediction center nearly equal chances of above/below/near normal both temp and precip. Note: this is for the full winter, averaged out. Basically:

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 10m

One interesting year: 2008-09 was way below normal precip but remember had the massive December snowfall.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 10m

The prediction for this winter is La Nina for Dec-Jan-Feb (DJF). It’s looking like a weak La Niña.

Past weak La Nina’s have been 6 above normal temp 5 below. Precip has been “all or nothing”
In weak La Nina’s.

She is pointing out the seasonal forecasts are imperfect and can go either way.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 10m

Tonja Fransen from NWS presenting. She’s here on her own and not in an offical capacity due to the “current state of things” so I’m not tagging to reduce chance of any unwanted surveillance.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 25m

Mark points out we are in 10 consecutive winters with snow a record, and counting. Snowfall by decade has ticked up in our region. 69 days of east wind 25 mph or higher at Troutdale. We’re both “due” for a major arctic outbreak, AND a snowless winter.

The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 29m

Normal to above average to record snowpack in some locations still had very early “melt out” - (signs of climate change-my commentary)

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 30m

February: onshore flow snow on the coast. Valentine’s Day snow storm 🖕sorry normally I love snow but this one really screwed us at the flower shop. Minor wind storm (9”80k power outages) Feb 24th. 983mb low into Vancouver Island. Washington snowpack struggled all winter.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 30m

December: Boxing Day Wind Storm gusts in the 40s across metro Portland.

January: gorgeous dry ridging 18 days without rain.

Huge Snowpack in SE Oregon. Really statewide.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 30m

The Bomb Cyclone from last November!

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 30m

Our last two “cold” winters were 1992-92 and 2016-17. Rockaway Beach Tornado last November. Remember the dumpster blowing in the wind?

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 41m

Mark light heartedly “calls out” tv graphics being used to sensationalize the weather. Dave Saleskey chimes in with a jape from the row behind me.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 41m

Winter 24-25:
-near normal temps
-no major wind storm
-3.0” official snow total

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 41m

They took away our La Niña (last winter). It was marginal and officially it was a neutral year.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 41m

Mark Nelsen with the recap of last winter up next. @marknelsenweather.bsky.social

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 45m

Latest models have taken it away. We’ll see.

The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 46m

Coming soon:
-comet Lemmon look near the Big Dipper right
-Super moon Nov 5th
-king tide Nov 5-7
-March 2-3 lunar eclipse
-OMSI exhibit Monsters of the Abyss

Jim’s presentation is always really fun. Thank you Jim.

The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 46m

-Saturn Ring Plane Crossing
-Total Lunar Eclipse
-Comet Atlas
-Ring Doorbell meteorite crash on PEI
-Hubble at 35
-NASA’s oldest astronaut of Silverton Oregon, age 70 lands on space station
-Comet 31/Atlas
-Rubin Observatory
-RIP Jim Lovell
-Sunspot cycle 📉
-starlink crashes 😡

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 46m

OMSI president Jim Todd presenting. Very kind of OMSI to open the meeting room to this event free of charge. Jim catches us up on significant space events and advances over the past year.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 1h

Chapter president Bobby Corser gets us started with some meeting business. The Oregon OMS holds monthly in person meetings with weather topics and presenters.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 1h

Got my raffle tickets for the Davis weather station and placed my guess of December 22nd for date of first snow in Portland. (Purely a guess for fun).

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 1h

I’m back at @omsiedu.bsky.social for the Oregon AMS Winter Weather Forecast Conference. I’ll be doing my. EST to live post but I’m not a reporter so please forgive typos or incomplete details as they crop up. #orwx #wawx #pnwwx

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks for the hint.

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The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 3h

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social · 18h

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