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Condition Monitoring Report  
Station Number: OR-KL-28
Station Name: La Pine 9.1 S
Report Date: 3/3/2025
Submitted: 3/03/2025 12:36 AM
Scale Bar: Near Normal
Description:
[Two weeks Mon 2/17/25 – Sun 3/2/25, rural Central Oregon High Desert.] 
This 2-week period was very typical in almost every way – including precipitation amounts and types, high and low daily temps, winds preceding changing weather conditions (with 1 exception), and an almost even mix of mostly sunny/clear days/nights – for the end of February.  
Total CoCoRaHS rain gauge readings (rain and melted snow/ice) totaled 1.45”.  New snowfall, from 4 out of 14 days, totaled approx 3.2” and was neither especially wet nor especially dry.  On Mon 2/17 the approx 4” snowpack was comprised of about an average of 1” solid ice (from previous snow-and-melt events) underneath approx 3” snow; by late today only a trace of snow – actually, patches of the oldest ice – remained on the ground.  The ground is so saturated with water that walking on the native volcanic soil that is not under water (i.e., has standing water) feels like walking on pillows.  
High temps averaged 51 with a range of 41 to 64°F, and low temps averaged 24 and ranged from 14 to 32°F.  Several days this period, indoor heating was not used from morning until after dark.  
Sunday 2/23 late afternoon to early eve wind gusts (the aforementioned exception) registered unusually high for this area at 39 mph and 37 mph respectively (without adverse effects) hours ahead of the NWS-issued High Wind Warning effective 10 AM the following morning and predicted for areas to the south and east of this location  but not including this particular location.  I appreciate weather anomalies and would love to know the details/data that triggered this one!!  
All else with wildlife, plant life and insect activity was typical and without extraordinary notability as well. 
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