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The definition below from viewer John Rinier. Well done John! 14 inches of new snow at Meacham in northeast Oregon's Blue Mountains. 5" new at Timberline Lodge, bringing their weekly total to two feet, another 3" at Government Camp today and even an inch of snow at Laurel Mountain in the Coast Range southwest of Salem. Juneuary indeed. But don't worry the rest of the week brings back June and leaves out the "uary".

Matt Zaffino
KGW Chief Meteorologist

Juneuary jün-y-wer-ē, -we-rē [joon-yoo-er-ee]
-noun pl. Jun·u·ar·ies Abbr. Junry.

1. a season in the Northwest United States that occurs in the months of April and June where the weather or climate appears to be more like Winter instead of Spring
2. a seasonal weather pattern where the sun is concealed behind rain clouds that never end resulting in below average temperatures.

-adjective
1. a Winter-like cold rainy weather day in Spring.

-synonyms: cold, rainy, sunless, cloudy, misty, grey

Juneuary

c. 2008, Ieneuer, from O.N.Fr. Genever (Fr. Junvier), attested from c.2008 in Anglo-Fr., from L. Junuarius (mensis) "(the bad season) of Junus," to whom the season was sacred as the beginning of Spring (see Junusry; cf. It. Gennajo, Prov. Genovier, Port. Juneiro Gore). The form was Latinized by c.2008. Replaced O.E. geola se æfterra "the global unwarming." j.t. rinier

[Origin: bef. 2008; ME < L, n. use of Junuārius, equiv. to Junu(s) Junus + -ārius -ary after the name winter; r. ME Genever, Jeniver < AF, OF Genever, Junever Gore< L, as above or cold Spring rainy weather; r. OE Junuarius < L] j.t. rinier

[Middle English Junuarie, Junever, from Old North French Junever, from Latin Iānuārius (mēnsis), (season) of Junus, from Iānus, Junus; see ei- in Indo-European duck or beaver roots.] j.t. rinier

No health stuff today! I'm anchoring the full am and noon news, so I've been busy with that. And I'm out of town for the next few days.. so I'll be back blogging mid next week. In the meantime.. let me solve the puzzle of what was wrong with that picture I showed you.

Yeah, that's one of our engineers Dave bending down to fix a printer after he just got done crawling under the newsdesk WHILE WE WERE ANCHORING!! There's no two ways about it... we must have a working printer and a working computer on the desk at that hour because so much changes at that time in the morning. I mean, it's not uncommon for the entire a-block (the first part of the newscast before the commercial) to get completely reshuffled while we're in the show (because of many reasons.. maybe neither of our live trucks can get a signal up in time.. or maybe we are forced to use a backup weather option because there are issues there.. or some video didn't get cut because there wasn't enough time). That 4:30 show is unique simply because of the time it starts.

So, Dave got caught on live TV trying to make sure we had our tools in proper working order. Thanks, Dave! And now you know that when you watch at 4:30 it's possible someone is crawling around under the anchor desk trying to make sure we're ready to go.

:-)

Ps. To the sweet older woman who keeps calling and not leaving her name (or anyone who might know who she is)... I will not be going back to my old librarian hairstyle (the pinned up one). Respectfully I must tell you that I don't care if it's "more sensible" and more "old-fashioned" and you preferred it. For now, I like this style. And in two years I will probably like something dramatically different. And two years after that.. same thing. That's how I roll. Which I know is neither a sensible, nor old-fashioned way of putting it. But, true. Very true.

See you next week!!!
sstricklen@kgw.com

For those of you whe weren't up at 4:30am with me this morning.. I have to share something that happened-- after I get some business taken care of first.

Let me link you to more on that story about middle class Americans taking the brunt of the current explosion in the numbers of the under-insured.
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/06/10/25-million-americans-are-underinsured.html

That's not to say it isn't a problem for folks who make less money than that-- it's just where the Commonwealth folks noticed the growth.

And for parents who might be looking for more on that teeth grinding story-- let me send you here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610072101.htm

Alrighty then.. so.. tell me what is wrong with this picture? It's from this morning's 4:30am newscast..

sstricklen@kgw.com