1 month, 12 inches of rain.Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard With a little luck, Gene Hursh just might get to leave his raincoat in the truck next week. That's the earliest the soggy southern Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its might see a break from what will go down in the books as one of the wettest Januaries on record. Hursh, who operates Country Lawn Care in Harrisburg, said he's glad to see it go. "We've been doing this about five years now and this is the worst it's ever been," he said Tuesday. As wet as it's been in Eugene, the month still falls well short of the record. With a few hours yet to go until midnight Tuesday the airport had just hit 12 inches of precipitation for the month with little chance of equalling the drenching drenching farmer's term for the administration of medicines as solutions or suspensions in water by mouth with a drench bottle, gun or funnel. drenching bit to be included in a bridle as a bit. January of 1995, when 15.36 inches inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. the city. Still, this January could be among the 10 wettest in Eugene since 1933 with rainfall about 60 percent above the normal of 7.41 inches. In some parts of the state it could end up as the fifth-wettest on record, said meteorologist Kirsten Elson at the National Weather Service office in Portland. Blame a one-two punch one-two punch n. 1. A combination of two blows delivered in rapid succession in boxing, especially a left lead followed by a right cross. 2. Informal An especially forceful or effective combination or sequence of two things. that's been slinging low pressure systems out of the Gulf of Alaska Noun 1. Gulf of Alaska - a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world like baseballs from a pitching machine A pitching machine is a machine that automatically pitches a baseball to a batter at different speeds and styles. Most machines are hand-fed, but there are some that automatically feed. . Mix in a jet stream that's loaded with moisture from the subtropics sub·trop·ics pl.n. Subtropical regions. Noun 1. subtropics - regions adjacent to the tropics semitropics climatic zone - any of the geographical zones loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude and aimed squarely at the Northwest and you end up with a month with at least a trace of rain on all but two days, the most being a 2.37-inch record for the date set Jan. 17. "Some winters we'll have a good storm but then we go a couple of weeks without a really good one," Elson said. "This has been like every day or every couple of days, with showers in between." Don't look for any improvement this week, but Elson said there's at least a ray of hope starting Monday or Tuesday. That's when the computer models all seem to show a substantial high-pressure ridge setting up off the coast and shielding the Northwest from the rain parade. "That would basically keep the storms going to our north and over us," she said. "When we're talking about seven days out it's really iffy if·fy adj. if·fi·er, if·fi·est Informal Doubtful; uncertain: an iffy proposition. [From if. , but it does appear that the ridge is going to hang around through at least Thursday or Friday." BY THE NUMBERS: 2 Number of rainless days in January 4 Number of days with a trace amount of rain 12 Total rainfall for January in inches 7.41 Average rainfall for January in inches 17.53 The amount of rain we had in inches between Dec. 18 and Jan. 17 |
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