Wednesday, February 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Chinese New Year
is on the way!
By David Perkins &
Wenqiang “William” Zhang
Imagine tomorrow is the
Chinese New Year, Spring
Festival (Chūn jié 春节),
27th of this month! This year
is the year of the Rooster
(jī nián 鸡年). If you
were born in the year 1945,
1957, 1969, 1981, 1993,
2005, 2017, then you are a
Rooster. Very interesting.
Each year, the Chinese
calendar assigns an animal
from a rotating zodiac of
12 animals. The 12 animals
cycle through rat, ox, tiger,
rabbit, dragon, snake, horse,
goat, monkey, rooster, dog
and pig. 2016 was the Year
of the Monkey.
Here are some of the
world’s most famous
Roosters: Beyoncé, Bob
Marley, Jennifer Aniston,
Jennifer Lopez and Britney
Spears.
Personality: People born
in a year of the Rooster
are very observant, hard-
working, resourceful, cou-
rageous, and talented.
Roosters are very confident
in themselves. Roosters are
always active, amusing, and
popular within a crowd.
Roosters are talkative,
outspoken, frank, open, hon-
est, and loyal individuals.
They like to be the center of
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
The mountains are receiving a generous blanketing of snow this winter.
attention and always appear
attractive and beautiful.
People born in a year of
the Rooster are typically
healthy people. They are
active and enjoy sports and
don’t get sick very often
because they tend to fight
illness well. Roosters are a
little sensitive, and they feel
stressed and moody at times.
Who am I? I was born
in 1968 and I’m a Monkey,
the Monkey King? OK, this
is Wenqiang “William”
Zhang, a Mandarin teacher
at Sisters High School,
Sisters, U.S.
These days the students
are very excited because
they have the opportunity to
learn Chinese New Year cul-
ture and traditions, calligra-
phy and how to cook dump-
lings. It’s good for students
to learn different languages
and become open-minded
See CHINESE on page 26
WINTER: Predictions
include above-average
February precipitation
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has smacked Central Oregon
pretty hard. In December
the average temperature was
22 degrees Fahrenheit, nine
degrees below normal here in
Sisters. And the first 23 days
of January 2017 even colder,
coming in at a bone-chilling
13 degrees below normal.
The snow started flying early
in December, and by January
12 many areas in and around
Sisters were blanketed by
nearly four feet of the white
stuff.
Though still fresh in our
memories, the previous harsh
weather is history. What do
forecasters think is in store
for the remaining seven
weeks of winter?
Forecasts at the time of
this writing indicate that the
weather for the last four or
five days of January should
be dominated by a ridge aloft,
producing an inversion with
cold temperatures and fog/
stratus clouds near the sur-
face, but sunny and warmer
conditions at higher eleva-
tions. Little or no precipita-
tion is expected.
On January 19, meteo-
rologist Pete Parsons of
the Oregon Department of
Forestry issued a three-month
seasonal climate forecast for
Oregon. It is largely based
on the current and predicted
strength of the ENSO sig-
nal and upper-air anomalies.
According to the Oceanic
Nino Index, a weak La Niña
is currently in play that is
expected to fade to neutral in
February.
For February, expect tem-
peratures in Central Oregon
to remain much-below aver-
age, while precipitation
should measure above or
well-above average with
ample mountain snowfall.
There’s also a slightly ele-
vated chance of another arctic
air outbreak.
By March temperatures
are anticipated to be average,
accompanied by above aver-
age precipitation and moun-
tain snowpacks. According
to the Climate Prediction
Center, in a forecast issued
on January 19, there is an
equal chance (namely a
33 percent chance) of get-
ting above-normal, normal,
or below-normal values,
with regard to both tem-
perature and precipitation in
February.
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PHOTO BY WENQIAN “WILLIAM” ZHANG
Sisters students have been learning about Chinese New Year traditions.
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