Jun
17
I’ve been hearing about this all spring. “Wow, our weather has been really nice this year!”
Yep, it sure has. And these NOAA images show that living in the northwest was actually a warm and dry situation this spring. Along with much of New England.
On the top chart, the red is unusually warm. The blue is unusually cool. Most of the country is in blue.
On the bottom chart, brown is unusually dry. And… Read more
Jun
14
It’s rare–but wild weather happens in the northwest.
This picture shows a well formed funnel cloud about 15 miles due south of Oregon State University on the afternoon of Thursday June 13, 2013.
As far as we know, it never touched down. So that’s why we call it a funnel cloud. We’d call it a tornado if it went all the way to the ground. Which leads us to McMinnville, where a confirmed EF-1 hit.… Read more
Jun
07
How about a giant question mark in the sky–created by some wispy clouds over Portland?
Yep, Amanda caught a picture of this one.
And besides Portland being unusually warm the first week of June 2013, it was also unusually interesting when it comes to the week in pictures. Here’s what I mean:
Darlisa caught the northern lights in this time lapse exposure from the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. That’s rare.
May
29
We did it.
Portland had so much rain during May 2013, we made it into the record books for the month.
As you can see, we tied 2010 for third wettest may on record at PDX, with records dating back to 1941.
But the way we did this is also incredible:
That’s right…more rain during a nine day stretch than the entire months of February & March–combined!
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May
26
Spending May 2013 in Portland, Oregon (and many other places in the northwest) was a wild weather ride!
The month started with skies like you see in this picture. Beautiful and bright from sunrise to sunset.
Portland weather spoiled us all: 14 straight days of unusually warm highs, as hot as 85 degrees, with an average high for that stretch of about 78 degrees. That’s what we’d expect in July!
During the first two weeks… Read more
May
21
The National Weather Service has upgraded the Moore, Oklahoma tornado’s strength to an EF-5 tornado, with wind speeds of 200-210mph.
Aerial pictures like this (tweeted by @WCL_Shawn) show the view from above today, May 21, 2013. Somewhere on the ground amid the rubble, investigators from the National Weather Service.
They spent today looking at the damage–but it goes beyond that. They can actually determine the windspeeds by comparing how strongly structures were built with what’s left of them after… 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 ....
