About MCMW

         McMinnville Weather was initially made as a confined local weather research site related to the location (NW Oregon) in 2004. Through out a 3 year span, McMinnville Weather.com expanded to serve the Pacific Northwest. Now that's a big jump from a small locale, to a big scale region. Once 2007 arrived, McMinnville Weather experience fatal technical issues, which went unresolved for the next two years.

McMinnville Weather proved popular, especially the Weather Blog, which was added on to the site as a 50/50 option. With the success, more features were brought up for addition until the fatal technical failures were experienced.

A New Page and a New Message

            November 16th, 2009, McMinnville Weather.com Officially re-opened, but this time, with a different approach. We still cover the Pacific Northwest, as well as we will still be offering research articles and reports. The site will rely heavily on the user participation, and the future of the site relies on people like you who come back and bookmark this site looking for new and intriguing information about weather, as well as offering information you may want to share with the rest of us.

About the Creator
           Born in June of 1988, I grew up with passion and desires. At the time, I wasn't sure what would interest me and take me to that next level in life, but boy did that change in first grade. Thanks to my first grade teacher (Mrs. Rima), she implemented a weather course. At first, I hadn't a clue to how weather works and what exactly weather was in the first place. At the time, it was mid to late fall, so the weather was at least, very active at that time.
           As we began to go on with the course, something that I have never seen..at least to my memory at that point, started slowly drifting down from the sky. At first, I thought they were chicken feathers falling down. But as I stood in more amazement, the pooring rain that was, was now white chunks' of..feathers..falling from the sky. I then turned to my teacher and asked her why there were so many feathers outside, and of course with a huge grin on her face, she sat me down and explained what it was.
           From that time on, I have always wanted to learn how the weather works, how snow forms, what makes it snow..and today, gives me the passion that I have now in weather. In High School, they had nothing to offer in the field of weather, so I was on my own in terms of learning more about the weather. I took it into my own hands and would spend time in the public library checking out advanced college textbooks. By the time I was a Junior, I was interpreting weather models and making my own forecast's.
           Since then, I have taken 2 years of college classes in Meteorology. 
                         -Grant LeBlanc
                                            -Founder of McMinnville Weather

"Snow Research for NW Oregon is my number one priority here on McMinnville Weather.com."
                   --Grant LeBlanc