SNOWSTORM EXCITEMENT MELTS AWAY.Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard As snowstorms go, Tuesday's won't go down in any record books. Although it did snow all the way down to the valley floors, most areas saw less than the inch that forecasters said was possible at lower elevations. And with only a couple of exceptions, it wasn't enough to trigger that Holy Grail Holy Grail: see Grail, Holy. A very desired object or outcome that borders on a sacred quest. There are several Holy Grails in the computer business. of winter weather: a school snow day. The exceptions were Junction City Junction City, city (1990 pop. 20,604), seat of Geary co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers; inc. 1859. The rail, trade, and processing center of an agricultural and dairy area, it grew as the supply point for nearby Fort Riley, , Oakridge and Triangle Lake, where enough fell to make the roads too dicey dic·ey adj. dic·i·er, dic·i·est Involving or fraught with danger or risk: "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog" New Yorker. for school buses, and kids got to spend the day in other pursuits. Several other districts put buses on snow routes, opened two hours late or did both. Dave Willson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Portland, said the office didn't get an official snowfall measurement for Eugene, but he said an unofficial report put the depth at a half-inch. Amounts varied, however, with more than 2 inches reported in some parts of the region. The big winner in the winter storm derby was the Santiam Pass Santiam Pass (el. 4817 ft.) is a mountain pass in the Cascade Range in central Oregon in the United States. It is located on the border between Linn and Jefferson counties, about 18 mi (29 km) , which landed 23 inches Sunday through Tuesday. Willamette Pass Willamette Pass (el. 5128 ft.) is a mountain pass in the Cascade Mountains in the U.S. state of Oregon. The pass is traversed by Oregon Route 58. Willamette Pass ski area is located there. had 20 inches, and three other spots in the Cascades had 18 inches. Farther down, McKenzie Bridge reported 6 inches, Swisshome had 2 inches and Corvallis managed to hit the 1-inch mark. Weather watchers will see a much calmer and mostly sunny - but cold - day today. The next chance for interesting weather comes Thursday morning, when an approaching warm front could produce pockets of light freezing rain Freezing Rain is a type of precipitation that begins as snow at higher altitude, falling from a cloud towards earth, melts completely on its way down while passing through a layer of air above freezing temperature, and then . - Greg Bolt |
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