Various Forms of Sun

So Oregonlive is reporting that we can expect “various forms of sun” this coming week.  Now this story dovetails nicely with our post last week, 7 Types of Rain.  (http://viewfromcrutchersbench.blogspot.com/2011/06/types-of-rainfall.html ) No I’m not posting about the types of sunshine we receive.  But for us, up here on Crutcher’s Bench, when we say, “it was sunny today”, we mean that we had a period of sun between the rain clouds.  So how sunny it is, depends on just how many minutes of sun we are lucky enough to get during the day.  Of course we do get stretches of total sunny days, especially in our dry months of July and August.  In those cases, we usually avoid going out too much.  And, if we do, we try to stay in the shade.  We are lucky to have such tall trees around us so we do not have any trouble finding shade.  I’m still wondering what forms of sun those folks in Portland get to see that we don’t.

Portland weather: Various forms of sun expected for upcoming week

Published: Sunday, June 19, 2011, 7:40 AM

By Everton Bailey Jr., The Oregonian

Several days of sun is being predicted for the Rose City and surrounding metro area today and the upcoming work week.

The National Weather Service in Portland forecast a partly sunny Sunday with a high near 66 degrees. A partly cloudy Sunday night is being predicted with a low around 54 degrees.

Monday is expected to be a bit warmer with a high near 75 degrees with the sun predicted to make a large amount of appearances for the day. Mostly sunny weather is also expected for the summer solstice on Tuesday with highs getting up to about 79 degrees.

The sun is allegedly making another showing on Wednesday with a high near 75 degrees. Temperatures are predicted to lower to a high around 68 degrees for partly sunny days on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/06/portland_weather_various_forms_of_sunny_weather_expected_for_upcoming_week.html