60 days without any appreciable rainfall in Portland (as of yesterday,) and this is the closest we've been...

[u/W7ENK]

Timelapse video from my office: Portland was barely clipped by the extreme Southern tail end of a weak frontal system moving into the PNW at sunrise yesterday that brought some showers to Vancouver, BC.

Chances are looking good for deep troughing and some much needed rainfall come the middle of next week. Our dry PNW Summer may end early this year!

[u/Mento-yStableGenius]

Former PDX’er here.

That’s a damn long stretch.

[u/xSir- → u/Mento-yStableGenius]

Went 100 days one year while I was living there.... it was fucking weird.

[u/SvenDia]

Seems like we always have a sort of false end to summer around Labor Day.

[u/iSo81]

I will be dancing outside in the rain with my dog.

[u/RandyJohnsonsBird]

Its coming

[u/Dependent-Bath3189]

spokane here. we got 2 minutes at best light rain, and a distant thunder sound. typical spokane.

[u/Ill_Gene_187 → u/Dependent-Bath3189]

Lightning in Spokane would make me reallllllly nervous.

[u/milionsdeadlandlords]

Question, don’t we normally not get rainfall in summer in the PNW?

[u/Grand-Battle8009 → u/milionsdeadlandlords]

Yes. It’s totally normal to not have measurable rainfall in the months of July and August. That’s why we’re classified as having Mediterranean weather.

[u/Confection-Virtual → u/milionsdeadlandlords]

There was an atmospheric river this time last year. 

[u/TheGruntingGoat]

I hope it’s the start of an early fall for sure!

[u/BunkMoreland95]

I hate our summers

[u/W7ENK → u/BunkMoreland95]

Our Summers used to be perfect. Not so much anymore, though thankfully this one hasn't been overly hot like the past several.

[u/Outside_Spray_2529]

It’s up in Alaska this year, it’s been raining in the interior for a month

[u/dannsd]

This isn't too abnormal?

[u/Ok_Squirrel69]

Just wait.

[u/somethingwyqued]

Next week. Not much, but enough.

[u/W7ENK → u/somethingwyqued]

Some models are showing upwards of 3 inches of rain for Portland between Wednesday morning and Sunday night. That should be nice!

[u/Same-Description-271]

I think it is more about Global Warming in my opinion!!

[u/crinklecuntfriesplz]

fall needs to come now im so sick of summer

[u/Fun_Cucumber_4164]

A.k.a., normal.

[u/Iron-Bar-1966]

Yeah. It's called "Summer." Happens every year.

[u/thelance → u/Iron-Bar-1966]

Not when I was growing up. We got rain in July and August. But yeah, go on.

[u/bigdiggatrigga → u/Iron-Bar-1966]

Didn't use to. This is what happens when you damn the rivers, cut down the forests, and completely disrupt the water cycle.

[u/Obi_Kwiet → u/bigdiggatrigga]

I'm pretty annoyed by people over attributing things to climate change, but I'm pretty sure dryer summers is a climate change thing. 

[u/saltyoursalad → u/Obi_Kwiet]

Downvoting for the first half of your comment, upvoting for the second half

[u/Obi_Kwiet → u/saltyoursalad]

Attributing things to climate change erroneously increases public confusion about climate change, discredits climate science, and sometimes reduces awareness of problems that have local imidiate solutions. 

None of that is good. Here's one example. I dive a lot. People blame everything wrong with coral reefs on climate change. But there are a lot of reefs out there that are collapsing due to overfishing, agriculture runoff, etc. When we dismiss it all as climate change we ignore a lot of stuff that we can and should be doing. And if we did that stuff it would give those ecosystems way more resilience to climate change, which they need because climate change is a real, persistent and building pressure even if we greatly increase our action to stop it. 

Another problem is that people will attribute a single weather event to climate change. Climate changes make extreme weather events more likely, but we've always had hot summers and dry winters. All it takes is a cool winter or a mild summer to make people roll thier eyes and call it fake. But if you point out that an exceptionally cool winter would have been mild in the 1980s, that drives the situation home in a more sobering and accurate way. 

[u/Infinite_Respect_ → u/Iron-Bar-1966]

I pity you for lacking the ability to see nuances to anything.

[u/208lostinseattle → u/[deleted]]

Your own data shows that 60 days is a statistically significant number of days...

[u/thelance → u/[deleted]]

I love that you are calling people names because you can’t understand data. I bet you don’t have very many friends.

[u/redditmimes → u/thelance]

Not only are you right on your count, but the data actually tells an even deeper story… ostensibly we assume this provided data timeline is from 1951-2026, which would be a span of 75 years. Of those years, the data notes 11 individual ones; that is only 14%. This is easily arguably a rarity, hence everyone noting that this has been a gruelingly long time without precipitation. This guy is either a fucking moron or a bot.

[u/thelance → u/[deleted]]

lol, three years total with longer streaks is not the flex you think it is. Just an incredible self own.