Extended Pacific Northwest → Re: [WA] Weather

Bite your tongue! Winter around here means either rainy days or cloudy days. Freezing rain or freezing fog.

I give you until mid-December until you regret those words

I think he lives high and east enough that he gets snow much more than people in the PDX area.

Once I was lucky enough to drive through an area shortly after a major freezing rain -- that was one of the most surreal experience I've ever had. Too bad I didn't have my camera with me.

What's PDX?

I think it's the Portland Airport.

Never, tongue would be too swollen by then.

@aurgathor, yep, have a much better chance of it.

It is the airport like sashwa said but its also how a lot of locals refer to the Portland area.

PD stands for PortlanD, X may stand for eXtended, but I'm not 100% sure about that letter. PDX can either mean just the airport, or the greater Portland area, depending on the context.

it's short for KPDX which is the international AirNav code for Portland ie a very specific spot on the globe.
bigger airports have easy to understand codes like (k)SEA while newer small ones get weird ones like OGG (old/us) and and PHOG (current international standard) are both Kahului Airport maui, hi.
When ever you go anyplace by commercial aircraft a flight plan Lists many of these 3, 4 letter codes describe a series of points along the way (some are just a beacon/point on the chart)
many become slang for the town the airport is near just as Beantown (Boston) and nola (New Orleans) denote other identifiers.
Once you know the ones important to you they make a quick Google shortcut for maps and info nearby
KTCM= McChord (now joint base Lewis McChord)= and about a thousand other things doesn't work well, but ABQ= Albuquerque works much better.

Can we keep the sun and at least have fall temps? This 80+ is killing me. This is my first summer in the new upstairs apartment. It's currently 83 in my front room where I'm sitting. The bedroom is warmer. The front room temp is partially due to making pasta for a late lunch. Good to know I can what the place in the winter just by cooking dinner.

Works for me!

BTW getting up early (a little) to make a Pasta primavera salad (spring style) for a lunch or 2 (even dinner on those killer days) avoids that high humidity of cooking pasta on hot days, one of our strategies that helps in a warm house.
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In fact dinner tonight is going to be something along these lines, with some left over (on purpose) grilled chicken, shredded in.
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I like chilled salads, fruit or green smoothies made with frozen fruit and/or ice cubes, etc for meals this time of year

Take out works well too