Post #2: Why Portland Plus Some Weather

I was born in Portland, which is partly why I chose this city for this blog. The other reason is that I absolutely love the rain. I think the weather would be absolutely perfect. Portland is located at latitude 45.5987 and longitude -122.60917. The temperatures for every hour for February 22, 2014 are listed below.

Time:                       Temperature(F):
1:53am                       35
2:53am                       33
3:53am                       32
4:53am                       31
5:53am                       31
6:53am                       33
7:53am                       31
8:53am                       34
9:53am                       38
10:53am                     40
11:53am                     42
12:53pm                     45
1:53pm                       45
2:53pm                       46
3:53pm                       46
4:53pm                       46
5:53pm                       45
6:53pm                       44
7:53pm                       43
8:53pm                       42
9:53pm                       42
10:53pm                     41
11:53pm                     41
12:53am                     33

The high temperature for this day was 46 F and the low was 31 F. This is a range of 15 degrees. The average as calculated by taking the mean of all the temperatures is about 39.2 F. The average as calculated by taking the mean of the high and low temperature is 38.5 F. This is a percentage of difference of 2%. For this data set, that means that the two averages are relatively close and could be substituted. However, if the range of the temperatures was greater, this would not be the case. The graph below shows the temperature as well as some other weather features over the last three days.



The graph and statistics were used from:

"Weather Conditions for: Portland, Portland International Airport, OR." National Weather
          Service. 23 Feb, 2014. Web. Accessed: 23 Feb. 2014.   
          http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=pqr&sid=KPDX&num=72&raw=0

Post #1: Portland

Portland, Oregon is a city located less than sixty miles from the Pacific Coast. The Willamette River runs through downtown and the Columbia River runs just to the north. Rain is the most common conditions in this city of 600,000 people with sunny days mostly occurring in the summer months.

Information and photo borrowed from: "Portland (Oregon)." Wikitravel. Feb. 20, 2014. Web. Accessed: Feb. 20, 2014. http://wikitravel.org/en/Portland_(Oregon)