Good morning on a Monday 1st
Monday of Daylight Saving Time.
Hope that hasn't been a hope.
It's been a good thing for you.
Hope you're like, yeah,
let's get to those long evening
sun goes down after 7:00 o'clock.
That's always nice.
That's always nice this time of year
I feel like my head's been a little
funky this morning now. Oh my God, it's
gorgeous, so that's Mount Hood
from the Oregon Veterans Home
Camera in the Dow this morning.
And if you don't have fog podcast
at your house, that is the blue
Sky up top and that will turn
into a beautiful day.
Brilliance, yes, brilliant Blue
Sky alright so we always start
weather extra with little trivia.
So let's go to that.
OK, so today's trivia.
Drum roll OK. It's 4.07 miles long.
It's the longest continuous
Truss bridge in North America.
I could keep rolling off
the hints in North America.
Yes, OK, well I'm going to disconnect
between two states. The bridge
cost $24 million to build
and it took four years to do
so between 1962 and 1966.
I believe it opened in like
July or August of 1960,
so you could build a lot of bridge back in.
Then it was paid for completely by tolls.
By the way, it was that money in 2020
standards is something like 190 million.
So OK. Alright, so far cheaper
by the way than the proposed.
Yes, 24 million for Interstate
Bridge and last but not least,
there's a race that goes across
this bridge in October, October.
It's I think it's the second
Sunday in October.
Is that right?
If you been,
have you been in this race
yourself? I have not been in this race. I
would like to go take part
in this race at some point.
All right? Well, we'll get to the
trivia. Yeah, after that in
a second. But First off, we
need to talk a little bit about simple
stuff. We are dry. It's going to
show you the seven day forecast.
If we can and it is looking incredibly dry,
temperatures outside 55 degrees
this afternoon, 57 tomorrow, 57.
Wednesday 62 Thursday.
The only thing you don't see on this
there's a little passing system
to our North tomorrow night that
could push us into solid solid
cloud deck into Wednesday morning.
But right now we would think we
would clear during the day and
still get well up into the 50s.
The American forecast models
have not like Friday rain.
The European model loves Friday
rain and then all models show.
Some showers and cooler temperatures
are going into the weekend,
so I know that will be at least the third.
We can in a row if that comes true,
at least the third one in a row
with cooler weather and some
showery precipitation course.
Big story tonight.
Clear skies expected for
the rising Supermoon,
and Chris McGinnis is
going to take us through that.
Yeah so about that Super Moon
Rod what is a supermoon?
We talk a lot about this.
Well First off,
the Super Moon occurs this evening at
precisely 1033 PM Pacific Daylight Time.
Alright, So what is the Super moon?
A supermoon occurs when the
full moon coincides with.
A full moon or a near full moon
and I'll get to that in a second
when I get back to talk to Rod,
but it happens when a full moon
coincides with Moon's perigee.
So what is perigee?
Well, perogy refers to the distance
or the nearest distance in the
moon's orbit around the Earth,
so the typical orbit moon travels in an
elliptical orbit around the around the Earth,
so at times it's really far away.
At times it's closer,
tonight is as close as it
will be in its monthly orbit,
a mere 200 and 22,000 miles give or take.
Away,
and that means that the moon will
appear 7% bigger and up to 15%
brighter than a typical full moon,
so that's pretty cool.
That's what we call a perigean moon,
or in this case a supermoon.
And if you miss it,
we've got two more coming up.
We've got a full moon coming up in April,
and another one in May,
and both of those will be
super moons by the way,
the one coming up in April is actually.
Like 800 miles closer.
Who's ever takes one of the year so
that is the yeah
the one coming up in April is
the closest one of the year.
And so therefore that will be just a smidge
bigger and a smidge brighter.
Think I read, this is the second
closest super moon of the year.
Second closer, yeah? I just love
saying not to be confused with the Micro
Moon the Micro Now what's a microphone
will have to do a whole explanatory
graphic on that saloon, celebrated
mostly by people my height and
shorter trip. That's good.
It's going to say drinking
micro brews OK, Alright, so it's
for it's more than 4 miles long.
It's the largest, continuous,
longest continuous trust bridge,
not just in Oregon and Washington,
but in all of North America.
So that's pretty cool.
OK, it took in today's dollars
shy of 200,000,000 to build.
It was paid for mostly by tolls, which.
They stopped collecting some time ago.
There was a race called the Great
Columbia Crossing pass that should be.
That should be a big hint.
It's gotta be the Meckler Bridge
because nothing else is that long, right?
Would be the 70 forecast already.
How do we go past the answer? No, no, we
didn't go past the answer there it is.
There it is. And then we closed out on
this lovely shot from Andrew Sambuceto
of a sunset last week at the Astoria
end of the Astoria Megler Bridge.
Isn't that pretty cool? That is a heck of
a bridge. I mean, when you drive
across it, just takes forever and
ever and ever and ever.
Especially if you go across
it on one of those windswept,
stormy November days. Very true.
It is built to withstand
150 mile an hour wins. I
believe they were looking at the
Astoria column camera high on the
Hill looking out over the bridge
this morning, and the Columbia
fairly calm on a Monday morning.
Alright, that does it for us today.
Hope you have a great Monday.