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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
What a winter we’ve had in Sisters
By Ron Thorkildson
Correspondent
Extreme winter weather
battered Central Oregon in
December and January, while
February brought a respite
to its snow-weary and frost-
bitten residents. Three-foot
snow depths were common
in and around the Sisters
area during December and
January, accompanied by
bone-chilling temperatures
that plunged below minus-20
degrees Fahrenheit early in
January.
More moderate weather
in February allowed folks
to make some progress in
clearing away the deep snow,
though temperatures still
averaged three degrees below
normal — but without the bite
of another arctic outbreak.
Sisters’ data showed that
precipitation was a third of
an inch below normal, but
information supplied by the
National Weather Service
office in Pendleton indicates
February’s precipitation lev-
els were at least 150 percent
above normal in Deschutes
County.
Sisters picked up an addi-
tional seven inches of snow in
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PHOTO BY RON THORKILDSON
The huge piles of snow that paralyzed traffic in town during December,
January, and early February are finally melting away.
February. The maximum tem-
perature for the month was
55 degrees and the minimum
was 13 degrees. According to
Marilyn Lohmann, hydrolo-
gist at the Pendleton office,
the snow pack in the Central
Oregon Cascades has a water
equivalent 150 percent of
normal as of March 9.
The early winter La Niña
was weak and short-lived.
Both the multivariate ENSO
Index and the Oceanic Nino
Index show a return to El
Niño-Southern Oscillation
neutral conditions at this
time.
As most of the piles of
snow around town have
finally disappeared, the
National Weather Service’s
Climate Prediction Center
foresees near normal temper-
atures and above normal pre-
cipitation levels for March.
This forecast was issued on
February 28.
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