Snow in Oregon today...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Summer snow in the mountains (Timberline Lodge), hail in West linn, lightning storms in Gresham.

Nope, no Global Chaos here...

we now return you to your regularly scheduled {fluff} program...

[Erika]

1. YES!

I'm so sick of the hot smoky days with the red alerts.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Oh, I'm not bitching...

I love the rain myself, and we sure do need it!

But SNOW?! ALREADY?!

[Suich]

3. Snow at Whistler in BC and

Crystal Mt. in WA, too. Not much but still, it's only mid-September!!!

:hi:

[insanity]

4. First Frost tonight for Southern Oregon

At least thats what I heard a couple of days ago. Mt. Ashland stil has some snow.

[LWolf]

12. Possible frost in central oregon tonight.

That's not really "early;" we can have frost any day of the year, but it's rare in the summer. Hot days, chilly nights; that's the desert for ya.

[Tiggeroshii]

5. I lived in Beaverton two years.

I was ever so elated whenever snow came my way(very rarely).

[nosmokes]

6. yeah. bummerama!

i ain't ready for summer to end!. i'm sti;; wearing shorts and eating peaches and berries on my granola for breakfast! i'm not ready for 6 mos of rain and snow and gray. wah!

[BeTheChange]

7. Its not summer..

September is halfway over.

[sandnsea]

8. El Nino is back

Doesn't it bring some cooler weather along with the extra rain?? I've noticed cooler nights on the coast for a good month now. I hope we don't get snow over here this winter, my power bills were already creeping up.

[Fleshdancer]

9. I think it's La Nina n/t

[sandnsea]

10. No, it's El Nino

It's causing the hurricanes off of Mexico and preventing them from developing in the Gulf.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B264577.htm

"El Nino, an abnormal warming of equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean that wreaks havoc with world weather, has formed and will last into 2007, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has said."

[leftchick]

11. here ya go... WE HAVE TEN YEARS LEFT!

I was just reading this and I for one am fucking scared....

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1603667.ece

Yesterday, Jim Hansen, the leading climatologist and director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in New York, issued a now-or-never warning to governments around the world, including his own, telling them they must take radical action to avert a planetary environmental catastrophe. He said it was no longer viable for nations to adopt a "business as usual" stance on fossil-fuel consumption.

"I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most," he said.

[Reader Rabbit]

13. I was glad to hear that, actually.

Mt. Hood has been lookin' all brown and nekkid lately, what with its disappearing glacier. A little early snowfall might act as a bit of a fig leaf.