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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1040 AM EDT THU APR 5 2007

...RECORD DAILY SNOWFALL FOR APRIL 5TH SET AT PORTLAND...

AS OF 9 AM PORTLAND RECORDED 5.5 INCHES OF SNOW TODAY WHICH BROKE
THE OLD RECORD OF 5.0 INCHES IN 1911.

YESTERDAY, APRIL 4TH, PORTLAND RECORDED 6.1 INCHES OF SNOW WHICH WAS
JUST THREE TENTHS OF AN INCH SHY OF THE RECORD 6.4 INCHES SET IN
1915.

THE STORM TOTAL OF 11.6 INCHES OVER A 24 HOUR PERIOD IS ONE OF THE
BIGGEST APRIL SNOWSTORMS IN PORTLAND SINCE SNOWFALL RECORDS BEGAN IN
1882.

HERE IS A LIST OF THE BIGGEST 24 HOUR APRIL SNOWSTORMS IN PORTLAND...

RANK  AMOUNT        DATE

1     15.9 INCHES   APRIL 6-7TH, 1982
2     15.0 INCHES   APRIL 9-10TH, 1906
3     14.1 INCHES   APRIL 1-2ND, 1922
4     12.5 INCHES   APRIL 2, 1887
5     11.6 INCHES   APRIL 4-5TH, 2007
      11.6 INCHES   APRIL 12-13TH, 1933

NOTE...IN 1922 FROM MARCH 31ST THROUGH APRIL 2ND 16.2 INCHES OF SNOW
FELL WITH 14.1 INCHES OF THAT FALLING IN APRIL.

THIS SNOWSTORM, WITH ABOUT A FOOT OF SNOW, IS THE 6TH SUCH EVENT IN
THE PAST 126 YEARS, WHICH GIVES PORTLAND A 12 INCH SNOW STORM ABOUT
ONCE IN EVERY 20 APRILS.

THE 11.6 INCHES FOR THIS STORM IS ALSO THE SNOWFALL TOTAL FOR THE
MONTH SO FAR WHICH RANKS AS THE 9TH SNOWIEST APRIL IN THE PAST 126
YEARS. WITH 25 DAYS LEFT TO GO THIS APRIL`S MONTHLY SNOWFALL TOTAL
COULD BE HIGHER.

HERE IS A LIST OF THE SNOWIEST APRILS IN PORTLAND...

RANK  AMOUNT         YEAR

 1    20.5 INCHES    1906
 2    19.1 INCHES    1887
 3    17.6 INCHES    1907
 4    15.9 INCHES    1894
      15.9 INCHES    1982
 6    15.7 INCHES    1967
 7    14.1 INCHES    1922
 8    11.7 INCHES    1933
 9    11.6 INCHES    2007 /AND COUNTING/
10    11.2 INCHES    1956


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