Good morning on this February 16, 2026! It’s a holiday — to do with whatever we please — so let’s begin with a Monday thread.

The entire week looks showery and chilly, with highs around 43, and a possibility of snow — sometimes down to 300 feet or lower — all week. Sunrise 7:10 AM, sunset 5:39 PM, twilight until 6:09. Every day this week, we will gain three minutes of daylight. And three weeks from today, we’re back on Daylight Time.

Wait… snow? Tell me more!

I found this bit of intel in today’s National Weather Service discussion:

“Modified Arctic air is expected to maintain temperatures around 5–10 degrees cooler than average, while lowering snow levels to at least 1000 ft. Unsettled and showery weather conditions will likely continue through much of the week, with mixed rain/snow showers possible down to sea level starting late tonight/Tuesday morning. While not the most likely solution, there is potential (10–20% chance) for 1 to 2 inches of snowfall occurring somewhere in NW Oregon/SW Washington Wed night into Thursday morning.”

That’ll be enough to light up the school announcement network, which is where our old radio morning team would earn its bones. Before the internet, school closures and delays were handled through an answering service that would telephone each newsroom and run down the list according to a form that we’d quickly check off. It can now be revealed that we charmed our way into getting called first because, we reasoned, 62KGW was the first station on the dial!

Radio doesn’t do school closures anymore. Kids find out on their phones before their parents are even awake. Radio program directors never liked school announcements anyway — too much talk, taking away from playing another Britney Spears song, or whatever. But I always felt the information was valuable beyond families with kids in school: you could tell, by what’s closed, what areas were hardest hit, and where other non-school things might be affected as well.

So no school today! Because — it’s President’s Day. Yay. Honoring Oval Office occupants, good, bad, and abysmal.

Oregon, despite our coveted spot in an out-of-the-way corner of the country, has been visited by a long list of sitting presidents, from Rutherford B. Hayes, who came by rail and stagecoach in 1880, all the way to Joe Biden, who jetted in aboard Air Force One in April and October 2022. Donald Trump has yet to visit our state while in office, but he actually came to a pro wrestling event at the Rose Garden on February 15, 2007, where he initiated a staged and profane feud with Vince McMahon — which eventually concluded with Trump shaving McMahon’s head.

Whose ex-wife, Linda, is currently serving as U.S. Secretary of Education. So it all ties together.

That’s what’ll pass for the Drip today; I’m making butterscotch bars for the granddaughters, per their request. So let’s let the squawking gabble have a nice nap, enjoy the holiday, and please share what you’re up to!