Andanh.com

I'm really glad this is the "unofficial start of summer" cause if this was the real thing it stinks! My email and telephone have been very busy today. People are not happy about the weather this weekend. Let me try to explain what's going on, basiclly the weather pattern has flip flopped.

Low pressure has set up east of the Cascades. I call this a back door low because the rain is coming in from the east instead of the west. This is just the opposite of our normal weather pattern.

You've heard the old saying "west is best?" As far as the weather goes this weekend it's true. The farther west you are the drier you will be. The heaviest rain will be just east of the Cascades, the driest on the Oregon Coast--go figure!

If there is one ray of hope temperatures will reach the upper 60s and low 70s later this weekend. If the skies do clear this weekend look up in the early morning hours, you might be able to see the International Space Station flying by.

I've posted a link below from NASA, it will show you when the ISS is scheduled to pass over Portland.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_States®ion=Oregon&city=Portland"

Oh, just one more thing to my sister Mary who is camping this weekend in Central Oregon. I told you so!

Regards
Dave

Then check this out.. a thanks to Bob for sending it along. I just clicked on the transcript and read through it. The video portion is 20 minutes long.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05162008/watch2.html

sstricklen@kgw.com

For Tuesday's Oregon Primary, we invited several bloggers inside our KGW newsroom to blog live during our coverage of the election.
Our goal was to knock down a few of the old walls between the viewers and those reporting the news, to make our process more "transparent."
KGW Reporter Joe Smith interviewed political analyst Len Bergstein and blogger Jack Bogdanski on-air and on our continuous streaming coverage on KGW.com.
We created an Interactive/Survey page on KGW.com and invited viewers/readers to comment on the issues, and also on our KGW coverage.
Len blogged about the election from his perspective, and Jack blogged from his, in KGW.com's Talk of the Town Blog.

Several other bloggers were in our newsroom, soaking up theatmosphere of election night and posting their impressions to their own blogs.
Personally, I found the coverage more interesting than previous elections because of this increased breadth in viewpoints, and afterwards Jack Bogdanski blogged about his experience in Jack Bog's Blog and LeLo from NoPo did the same.
We'd be interested in your feedback, too. Just click on "comments" below to weigh in. We're already planning for November's election.

Frank Mungeam
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