Ashland Summer Not So Hot

This has really been another mild Summer in the Rogue Valley. For an area that has normally seen a handful of 100+ degree days by now, they are nowhere to be seen. This is good news to many who do not like that hot weather…plus good news to keep the forest fires down, and the [...]

Happy Summer Solstice

Yay…it’s here. My favorite day of the year. Except this year it has been sadly anti-climactic. First, the long spring/winter weather kinda had this day sneak up on me. Second, my family is going to a wedding this weekend in California and the past couple of weeks have been full of working hard to make [...]

Southern Oregon turns Gray

I just wanted to make one quick rant about the weather we are having in Southern Oregon this year. (And had last year too I suppose.) What is up with the extended gray days? Is this a new weather pattern that is going to continue for the next decade? I remember back in the late [...]

Ashland Weather Compared to Bend Weather

  The biggest difference is the temperature…and the low temp in Bend is makes it unbearably cold to me at night in all but the summer months. The averages are only about 5 degrees difference, but look at the charts for the extremes. The exteme low on record for Ashland is -5 degrees, where in [...]