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Schedule of Monthly Meetings


Upcoming Meetings and Events

(In general, the planning date for our meetings is the third Thursday evening of a month)


2008-2009 Meetings and Events

Annual Oregon AMS Summer Picnic. We are thinking a late August event? More details soon!


2008-2009 Meetings and Events

Technical Meeting, June 23rd, 7 - 9 pm, "Auroras - Northern Lights", Jan Curtis (USDA-NRCS), and "New AMS Weather Book" by Jack Williams, location Double Tree Inn - Lloyd Center: Event-flyer ; New! ... NOTES

Dinner Meeting, May 14th, 6 - 9 pm, "Rose Festival Weather" by George Miller, Old Spaghetti Factory, Clackamas. Event-flyer ; NOTES

Technical Meeting, April 30th, 6:30 - 9 pm, "Madden-Julian Oscillation", Chris Karafotias (BPA), 501 Sports Bar, Tualatin. Event-flyer ; NOTES ; Photo

Technical Meeting, Thursday, March 12th, 7 - 8:30 pm, "Winter 2008-09 Recap", Steve Pierce, location KPTV/FOX-12 studio, Beaverton. Event-flyer ; POWERPOINT ; NOTES

Social Meeting, Wednesday, February 18th, "Mid-winter Weather Sampler" by any OR-AMS member, location - Stark St. Pizza Co. Event-flyer ; NOTES ; Photo-1, Photo-2

Snow in the central Oregon Coast Mountains (Feb. 9)- by Steve Pierce... Coast Snow ; Lincoln City

Technical Meeting, January 15 (Thursday evening), "Forecasting Large Fire Weather Potential in the Pacific Northwest" by John Saltenberger (USFWS), Location - NWS office. Event-flyer ; NOTES

Snow-fall at Marylhurst University (Dec. 15): MU Snow

Technical Meeting, November 20th, "2008 Vancouver Tornado" by Dave Elson (NOAA-NWS) and Steve Pierce, Location- CRITFC. Event-flyer ; NOTES. "The Columbian" - coverage of the Nov. 20 Tornado talk: AMS

Presentations NWS-Dave Elson ; AMS-Conf ; Steve Pierce

Event, October 24th, Friday, 10 am - noon, "16th Annual Winter Weather Meeting" & Snow-Flake Contest, OMSI Auditorium - 181 attend!. Event-flyer ; OMSI Press Release: OMSI-PR

Presentations Mark's 2007-08 Review ; CRITFC (Kyle), Handout ; ODA (Pete) ; NOAA-NWS (Steve) ; ACS (George)

Photos: Greeters, Vendor-CWS , Audience, OMSI Greetings, Mark, Kyle, Pete, Pete-2 , Pete-3 , Pete-4 , Steve , Steve-2 , George , George-2 , George-3

Photos - Gift to the outgoing President: Big Box, Pendleton Salmon Blanklet, Nice Blanklet!

Snowflake-Contest: Rules . Winning date/time: Dec. 14, 5:53-6:23 am! Here are the official observations. Contest Winners: First Place - Ryan Underhill, Second Place - Patty O'Toole, Third Place - Katie Schmidt, Fourth Place - Terry Parsons. Big thanks to OMSI for donating the admission passes as prizes!

Vancouver Columbian coverage of the Oct. 24 Winter Weather meeting: VC-Oct24 and VC-Oct25

Social meeting, September 18th, "3rd Annual Weather Sampler" by any OR-AMS member. Event-flyer ; NOTES

For a listing of past meetings and events, click here: Past Meetings


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