Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon? • Hacker News Board

Re: Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?

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Post by noduerme » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #25

I've lived in the midwest, and in Portland. What many people don't get is that Portland has hills bigger than what people in the midwest would call a mountain. Also, snow in late December is relatively rare. We missed a white Christmas by one day. Only have an inch here where I'm at, but hey, take what you can get.

Every single time it snows, Chicago transplants get out and go "OH NO! You guys don't know how to drive in the snow! Look at me! I'm from Chicago!" And then they slide straight off the side of a hill or backwards down a driveway.

It just keeps happening because there are new ones every year.

Re: Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?

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Post by thehappypm » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 1:37 PM UTC

gautamdivgi wrote: post #40

rootusrootus wrote: post #25

I've lived in the midwest, and in Portland. What many people don't get is that Portland has hills bigger than what people in the midwest would call a mountain. Also, snow in late December is relatively rare. We missed a white Christmas by one day. Only have an inch here where I'm at, but hey, take what you can get.

Chicago was a balmy 55 on Christmas Eve. It was in the lower to mid 40’s on Christmas Day. No white Christmas here. Just some rain.

And Boston has been perfectly seasonal, snow on Christmas Eve.

Re: Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?

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Post by thehappypm » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 1:41 PM UTC

filmgirlcw wrote: post #62

I grew up in Atlanta Georgia, a place that is notoriously bad at dealing with snow [1], and never thought I would live in a place worse at snow than Atlanta. Then, after nearly a decade in New York City (a place that has snow on lock. In Brooklyn, it’ll snow 18 inches and the sidewalks and roadways will be clear by 5am. And the city is even better!), I moved to Seattle. Seattle is worse at snow than Atlanta, somethin…

Just a nit but Atlanta does have mountains nearby. The Appalachians begin around Atlanta and there are 4000 foot mountains just 90 minutes away.

Re: Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 2:36 PM UTC

noduerme wrote: post #121

rootusrootus wrote: post #25

I've lived in the midwest, and in Portland. What many people don't get is that Portland has hills bigger than what people in the midwest would call a mountain. Also, snow in late December is relatively rare. We missed a white Christmas by one day. Only have an inch here where I'm at, but hey, take what you can get.

Every single time it snows, Chicago transplants get out and go "OH NO! You guys don't know how to drive in the snow! Look at me! I'm from Chicago!" And then they slide straight off the side of a hill or backwards down a driveway. It just keeps happening because there are new ones every year.

When I lived in Chicago I would drive past at least 5 cars (not an exaggeration) in the ditch after the first major ice in my 40 minute commute.

Re: Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?

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Post by 19h » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

It’s funny because a few days back we drove from Olympic national park back down to San Diego via Nevada just to find ourselves in an ice storm and frozen interstate (I-26 through Mt Mood); you’re legally required to have tire chains if there’s a sign saying you should use tire chains so we stayed for the night to buy some in the morning from Walmart just to find out they’re all sold out. We ended up driving through the Willamette National Forest via Eugene which is incredibly beautiful.

Never knew Oregon was this beautiful, I’ll definitely explore it more soon. :-)

Re: Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?

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Post by bagacrap » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

ryantgtg wrote: post #51

rootusrootus wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It makes sense. The first rain after an extended dry spell can be treacherous until the oils are washed off the pavement. Once it starts raining consistently in the winter, the roads go back to normal because modern tires have great traction on wet pavement.

Sure, but visibility is also impacted and is not something that improves with consistent rain. People should always adjust their driving style when it rains.

I grew up somewhere with 50" of rain/year and I can tell you folks do not change their driving style there either (until it's raining much more torrentially than it ever does in LA), so this phenomenon is not unique to LA.