NWS Extremes

The Central Oregon Helitack Crew
Briefing

Weather Extremes

SOURCE
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/validProds.php?prod=FWF&node=KPDT
FORECAST FOR NE OREGON AND SE WASHINGTON
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
846 AM PDT SUN MAY 20 2012

DISCUSSION
A WARM FRONT WILL RIDE OVER A FLAT RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE TODAY WITH INCREASING CLOUDS AND ISOLATED SHOWERS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL OREGON THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD ON MONDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE REGION. IN CENTRAL OREGON BREEZY WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. SHOWERY WEATHER AND AREA-WIDE BREEZY WINDS WILL CONTINUE ON TUESDAY.

SIZE-UP WORD OF THE DAY
hypnagogic • \hip-nuh-GAH-jik\ • adjective
: of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep

Examples:
"People who play lots of computer games sometimes experience 'screen dreams' as they fall asleep, in which they see vivid images of the game they have been playing. These screen dreams are also products of the hypnagogic state." — From Paul Martin's Counting Sheep, 2002

"These hallucinations, called hypnagogic hallucinations, may occur when falling quickly into REM sleep, as you do when you first fall asleep, or upon waking." — From an article by Jeff Barnet in the Las Cruces Sun-News, January 11, 2011

CHUCK SAYS
"The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until Chuck Norris Roundhouse kicked one of the corners off."

	WEATHER ZONE	TEMP	RH	WIND	LAL	HAINES
ORZ609	EAST SLOPES OF NORTH OREGON CASCADES EAST SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN WASHINGTON CASCADE	73 °F	31%	WEST 7 MPH	1	2
ORZ610	EAST SLOPES OF CENTRAL OREGON CASCADE	76 °F	29%	SOUTHWEST 7 MPH	1	2
ORZ611	DESCHUTES NATIONAL FORES	75 °F	25%	SOUTHWEST 9 MPH	1	2
ORZ630	CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF OREGO	78 °F	21%	WEST 7 MPH	1	2
ORZ631	COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF WASHINGTO	76 °F	23%	WEST 6 MPH	1	2

EXTREMES		78 °F	21%	SOUTHWEST 9 MPH	1	2