By Rod Hill on 2013-03-04
The chill you felt this morning was the coldest air since January! Here are a few of the coldest unofficial low temperatures: Brush Prairie, (Clark County), 26 degrees, Hillsboro & Scappoose 27, Salem 28 and Portland 29 degrees. For Portland, today's chill was the coldest since January 22nd when the low temperature was 24 degrees. By the way, this morning's record low stands at 26 degrees.
So far, this has been a winter with little cold. February at PDX only had one freezing morning. The lowest temperature last month was 30 degrees on Feb. 8th. You may remember, the airport did not see it's first freeze until December 29th. Since that late Dec. day, only 18 more days have seen freezing temperatures, nearly all were recorded during our colder than normal January. Portland's annual average for freezing temperatures is 37 days. A typical March has three freezing starts. The average final Portland freeze is March 30th. The record latest freeze is 32 degrees, back on May 2nd, 1964.
Stay warm and enjoy today's sunshine!
Hoping For A Non-Record Wet Spring