It's been in single digits today in Denver with a low tonight project to be around -5. Shoveling the sidewalk this morning sucked.
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It's been cold, but this is not record cold for the Portland area. We get this every year. A good week or two of sunny cold as balls weather. The key is to warm up before the precipitation rolls in. Once that happens, you get last winter. Which was really, really unique. Up on Skyline where I lived last winter, we had snow on the ground, or it snowed, for 23 straight days. I couldn't leave my house for 14 days in a row because of how steep our driveway was. Unreal for this area. I'm over this cold snap, but having the sun around is nice.
Been below O degrees Fahrenheit the last few nights here in Beautiful Central Oregon. It is currently 1 degree with 4" of powder snow still on the ground in Bend from Saturday. It's cold, but it's a dry cold. There is no slush in Beautiful Central Oregon.
Unreal now, but yearly snow days were the norm in the Portland area when I was a young lad in the sixties and early seventies. Global warming is as real. Just spoke with clients visiting from the UK. They had the same story about their homeland. Used to snow, now it doesn't.
