Jan
31
I’m back in town and doing the weather on KOIN Local 6 Monday just in time to talk about a chilly east wind.
I’ve been down in Phoenix with my wife and kids at something called WordCamp Phoenix. The camp ended with an ice sculpture in the desert–not something you see everyday.
WordCamp is basically a short course on building and using blogs based on… Read more
Jan
29
What in the world could a picture of a stranded kangaroo have to do with the Northwestern U.S.? More than most of us realize.
More than I realized until visiting with another dad at a recent kids birthday party. He’s a lumber broker and he’s seeing first hand how the 50 years floods in Australia are being felt here in the Northwest.
Jan
20
Time is ticking toward spring.
As if the Crocus & Daffodil heads popping up aren’t sign enough, I even have a ‘spring countdown clock’ half way down the right side of this page.
But neither of those things are why I wrote this post. Instead, it’s the questions people are asking me almost everywhere I go right now. “Is winter over? No real snow for the valley floor… Read more
Jan
17
A hurricane could never hit the northwest because our oceans are too cold to support one, however what happened on Mt. Hood was in many ways like a hurricane including the incredible rain amounts and flooding. Read more…
Jan
15
How about a stay at a bed & breakfast where part of the weekend package includes a visit to the KOIN Local 6 studios and a behind the scenes tour of the PinPoint Weather Center?
That’s the way it was for these ‘treasures’ from Martha’s Place which is a bed and breakfast for those with developmental disabilities. The crew walked and rolled into our studio,… Read more
Jan
15
Only a few people on earth have a job like this.
Your ‘day at the office’ means hopping on a jet where you and your crew aim for storms and fly right through them.
You know before anyone else in the world what that storm is actually doing and the punch it will have when it reaches land.
The people with that job description are flying… 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 ....
