Baby its cold outside

Baby, it’s cold outside! We’ve had a high pressure system over us for a couple of weeks now. It’s been cool and clear the whole time. We’ve had cold air from the east flowing up the Columbia River gorge and spilling into the Willamette Valley the whole time. There has been lots of frost everywhere in the mornings. Except for the lack of snow, it reminds me of the cold I experienced in the mid west where I grew up. (Why, I had to walk five miles back and forth to school everyday in snow up to my neck, uphill, both ways!) The forecast calls for a change, starting this evening. The warm front coming in off the ocean is finally going to displace the cold. It’s bringing some moisture too. That is where it will start to get interesting. If it starts to rain before all the cold air is moved out we could get some nice freezing rain. It’s supposed to start with the rain early this evening. I doubt that it will be warm enough then to keep it from freezing when it hits the ground. The water in our bird bath has been frozen all week long. The squirrels have broken out their ice skates to get around on it!