It is still looking like we missed a White Christmas here in Portland, However, the temps are going to drop significantly immediately thereafter. And J, F, & P get ready to fire up your cordwood!
FRIDAY 12-24-2021 *41/34 F
SATURDAY 12-25-2021 *39/30 F
SUNDAY 12-26-2021 *35/24 F
MONDAY 12-27/2021 *31/24 F
TUESDAY 12-28-2021 *32/19 F
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WEDS 12-29-2021 * 27/17 F
THURSDAY 12-30-2021 *26/19 F
FRIDAY 12-31-2021 *30/22 F
SATURDAY 1-1-2022 *33/26 F
SUNDAY 1-2-2022 *32/25 F
MONDAY 1-3-2022 *33/25F
TUESDAY 1-4-2022 *33/26 F
WEDS 1-5-2022 *35/22 F
THE COLD WEATHER STARTS ON BOXER DAY, DECEMBER 26TH WITH A LOW OF 24 AND THE LOWS STAY IN THE 20'S FOR TWO SOLID WEEKS. FURTHER, PORTLAND WILL GET A THREE DAY STRETCH 12-28/29/30 WITH LOWS 17, 19, AND 22 F
At any rate, the next two weeks will be brutal by Portland standards, and it is very likely people will die from hypothermia. Hopefully, not the 70 plus that died from the 114F heat wave back in June. Portland is totally dysfunctional at this point, with a collapsed social order.
It will be interesting, at least to me, to see how much the electric load is reduced from all the downtown business closures, like virtually empty skyscrappers for example. I guess not much electric use for the block after block of boarded up and empty buildings. This may have the ironic impact of making the grid stronger as the load is reduced city wide.
The Oregon state legislature had their session on the13th, but I paid no attention to them so I have no idea if they allocated $66 MILLION in rental assistance, or any other emergency actions, related to rental forebearance, student loans, or whatever. The system is chaos, and if 10% of the people downtown 5 years ago were here today as I walked around I would be surprised. Pioneer Place stores had physical barriers INSIDE THE MALL to prevent the kind of flash mobs elsewhere.
The stench of social decay and anarchy is everywhere. A two week of below freezing temperatures may be the trigger event that puts the final nail in the coffin. They may even have to kick out the homeless from their government funded prefab camps since I doubt they built them able to take two weeks of this kind of cold.
I will keep up the reporting.