Jan
26
The whole thing started innocently enough. With snow showers and sun breaks right down to the waters of the Pacific Ocean…and the Willamette River…and the Columbia River.
Don Best took this picture of Rockaway Beach, Oregon on January 16th after an early morning snow shower. There’s just something about Oregon & Washington beaches covered in snow that gets me every time!
Here’s a shot from the same morning, in Gearhart, Oregon. Snow right down… Read more
Jan
24
While digging through the record books, I discovered something quite crazy about the rain over the last 7 days in Portland.
27% of the rainy season’s total (this starts with our water year on October 1 each year) fell during the last 7 days. Isn’t that a crazy statistic?
It’s certainly rare.
Now another atmospheric river (like a pipeline of water in the sky) is setting up again to slam the northwest starting today. Here’s… Read more
Jan
21
I’m not sure how this blog post will look in the site because I’m posting this one on the road from my iPhone.
But you can sure see how the Willamette River looks in Oregon City on Saturday January 21, 2012.
Check out the shelter that’s under water. When we pulled up our six year old said, “Daddy, there’s a roof in the water!” Yes, there sure is.
The Willamette will… Read more
Jan
21
Can you see the llamas in this picture?
Probably not, because they suddenly found themselves up to their necks in water during flooding in McMinnville, Oregon, on Friday January 20, 2012.
Heidi sent us a series of pictures–and told the story of what she witnessed:
“On Riverside loop rd. in McMinnville Oregon, Friday at about 10:30am we drove by a farm and watched a rescue of 3 llamas who had been stranded… Read more
Jan
20
I cannot believe this shot.
You’re looking at feet of water racing through a street in downtown Salem on Thursday night January 19, 2011.
This was the overflow of Mill Creek and it’s created something you could go whitewater rafting on. The water was racing into a parking garage. I home nobody was parked in there!
Incredible Rain Totals, Rivers Shoot Up Fast
Here are a few 48 hour rain totals after two days worth… Read more
Jan
17
Updated Wednesday Morning January 18, 10am
Well–we know which forecast tools came around to be right. Our in house RPM and the GFS were closest on timing and snow amounts. And the biggest thing is, after a high of 40 degrees, we did see sticking snow on the valley floor and more than 30,000 PGE customers without power. It was a great week of winter weather forecasting (by great, I mean pretty accurate)… Read more
Bruce Sussman has been forecasting Northwest weather since 1994. He is the Chief Meteorologist at Koin Local 6 News in Portland, Oregon and a member of the American Meteorological Society. Bruce graduated from University of Missouri and completed advanced Meteorology studies at Mississippi State ....
