Surprise Snow Storm 'Historic' for Oregon Coast
Published 03/13/2012
(Oregon Coast) ? It was pretty and it was very white, but it was also a lot of chaos that descended on the Oregon coast late Monday afternoon. Of all the places to get adversely affected by a snow storm, the coastal region got it bad ? about as bad as the coast range (above: Nehalem resident Mila Galvin-Woodward took this shot of Highway 101 north of Manzanita around 6 p.m.).
Steve Pierce, president of the Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, called this a ?historic March snowstorm.? While the frequency of kooky snow occurrences ? rare for the coast in general ? have abruptly increased in recent years, this was one for the record books.
?It appears that the last significant snow event on the Oregon coast in the month of March was in 1966 (45+ years ago),? Pierce said at 11 p.m. Monday night. ?...
