By Rod Hill on 2011-02-21
With the talk of snow and up to 4" in the city of Portland this Thursday (if the forecast holds), here are a few snow facts for PDX. Records date back to 1940:
Heaviest 24 hour Feb. snowfall: 6.4" of snow, Feb. 18-19, 1993
Greatest Feb. depth: 14" on the ground, Feb. 1, 1950
Latest big snow: 7.7" March 7-8, 1951
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If we get the 4" of snow in Portland Thursday, it will become the largest Feb. winter event in more than 10 years!
By the way, forecast charts continue to show periods of cold weather through the first week of March.
What makes large flakes?