75 degrees in March is amazing! We had a day or two in the early thirties. No, not cool, cold!

From: UTS [mailto:uts-bounces@starmanet.com] On Behalf Of Effie in the desert
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 3:12 PM
To: uts list
Subject: Re: [UTS] National news?

The surprise wasn't the temperature, nor trying to compete with Florida weather. It wasn't that it was "warm" in March.  It was that of all the places in the west that had abnormally warm winter weather, they picked Yakima. 

But if we want to talk weather in NORTHERN states, we didn't have winter.  We'd see reports of the northeast, midwest, even into the south sometimes, of snow, ice, etc.  It's never as bad here as in other northern tier states, but this year was just flat out weird.

The abnormal warm started in February. There were a couple of days when I turned the heat off in the house because it got too hot. Remember my stove has no thermostat other than "warmer and cooler". No auto on and off to stay at a specific temp.  An outside temperature in the upper fifties to sixty makes the inside go up into the 80's.

It was 70 degrees on March 9 and 75 on March 27!  There were only 7 days in February when it was below 50 as the daytime high.  It was 62 on Valentine's Day.

Bruce and I were doing geology tours in perfectly clear skies and temps in the 60s in Portland on Feb 21 & 22!  Unheard of!

---

From: chucksim@mindspring.com
To: uts@starmanet.com
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 23:05:18 -0400
Subject: Re: [UTS] National news?

Kinda cool when your home area, far from a Portland or Seattle in size, makes the national news. 50 degree average temperature this winter, breaking the record there by 7 degrees, huh?  

I’m reminded of a commercial during the Super Bowl, I think, where the current Heisman Trophy Winner (College Football Player of the Year) is proudly showing off his trophy to Joe Montana, winner of 4 Super Bowls. Joe’s response is, “Impressive!” and then he flashes his hand with 4 Super Bowl rings. Emulating Montana, my response also is “Impressive!” and then I flash the average temperature in Sarasota the last 4 days as around 84 degrees. Everything is relative, you see! J

From: UTS [mailto:uts-bounces@starmanet.com] On Behalf Of Effie in the desert
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 8:51 PM
To: uts list
Subject: [UTS] National news?

Imagine my surprise when Yakima was mentioned on the CBS Evening News. It wasn't a surprise to me. :)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hottest-march-on-record-for-cities-in-western-u-s/

_______________________________________________ UTS mailing list UTS@starmanet.com http://starmanet.com/mailman/listinfo/uts_starmanet.com