Strange weather

Since our arrival in America a couple of weeks ago, we have seen the weirdest weather. We arrived into Detroit with freezing cold temps, which was a real shock to the system after the mid-90s we had left the day before at our house. Thankfully things warmed up a little along the way.

Once we got to Denver things were looking pretty good until we got up one morning to find a few inches of snow on the ground and more coming down quickly. We were due to fly out the next morning, and were a little worried until hearing the weather forecast (mind you this forecast was being made while there was active snowing going on, in fact near blizzard-like conditions for a while) of 70+ degrees the following day. From snow to 70+ in less than a day? That is nuts!! Where we live it goes from 90-91 the next day not from 30 to 70 in one day.

Boise was not much different in terms of odd-factor. There were several days it would look like heavy rain all around us, but where we were was dry and reasonably warm. We even got in a round of golf one day and got sunburned in the process. The day before leaving Boise my wife got caught in a sudden downpour of snow-like stuff while she was out on her daily walk. Thankfully she was not too far from the house and did not get too badly soaked. But then the next day was beautiful and sunny – it was a perfect day for driving to Portland. What a gorge-eous drive through the Columbia River Gorge.

So what will the weather be like for out time in Portland?