Mar
31
It’s a numbers game, really. And numbers are a funny thing.
Most of us want the numbers at the gas pump to go down.
And the numbers in our 401k plans to go up.
But if you’re a tulip grower in Oregon’s Willamette Valley?Then you want the number 60 (degrees) to come up early and often along with breaks in the clouds for some extended sunshine. That’s the… Read more
Mar
28
Updated: 3/31/2011
I tend to feel most sorry for golfers and gardeners as winter turns into spring on the calendar–but not in water logged yards or on mushy fairways.
And let’s face it: walking the dog in Washington and Oregon has been a chilling and damp experience much of this month.
How about the kids playing at local parks? Uh, not too many of those, either!… Read more
Mar
27
It’s fame has been overshadowed recently by subduction zone faults under oceans that create mega-quakes followed by a tsunami.
But the San Andreas fault in California has long been one of the most feared, revered and certainly one of the most studied faults in the United States. And if you’re brave enough, you can hike… Read more
Mar
25
We all know about snowbirds, right? They’re people who leave places like North Dakota and bitter cold and snow for somewhere warmer down south.
Well, here in the northwest we have our own version of those people: rainbirds!
And in my continuing series of Friday interviews, I’m talking with the couple you see here, Jack and Loett.
They’re from Fairview, Oregon, which is on the east… Read more
Mar
21
It’s a classic spring photo: Maty, the dog, wearing her lei on the first day of Spring near Bend, Oregon. P-o-o-r Maty!
Shannon Mendiola tweeted this photo and says she wishes Central Oregon snow would stop now that it’s spring but she resigned herself to whatever comes: “it is what it is!”
If you live in Washington or Oregon that attitude may come in handy this spring.… Read more
Mar
20
The clouds parted just in time for many of us in SW Washington and Oregon to catch a glimpse of the Super-Moon.
Gunnar Simonsen took this great shot from Aloha, Oregon with his Flip cam! I’ve heard those Flips are cool. Now I can see for myself.
But aside from trying to enjoy the biggest looking moon in almost 20 years, were you worried… 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 ....
