This will go down as my favorite weather forecast of all time (issued today for Portland and the Willamette Valley):
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE VALLEY FLOORS WILL SEE A SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL IN THE MID TO LATE WEEK TIME FRAME...BUT IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT LITTLE OR NO SNOW WILL FALL.
If the President and Congress need to cut something in the federal budget the National Weather Service might not be missed all that much (just joking...no need to send me angry e-mails questioning my commitment to fortune telling weather monitoring).