Sep
30
There I was doing live weather at the FALL Home & Garden Show at the Portland Expo Center.
Yeah, it was an 81 degree day and the air conditioner was cranked in there!
But that’s when I spotted the chocolate. Enlarge this picture and you’ll see it, too, all over this dining room scene that was part of a design competition at the show.
In… Read more
Sep
29
And this was no hot August night.
It happened just a couple of days before we change the calendar to October.
The 11PM temperature map you see here shows Portland was 17 degrees warmer than Corvallis and 8 degrees warmer than Salem. All cities were clear and dark. And that leaves just one possible explanation for the difference in temperature. The power of the east wind spilling… Read more
Sep
23
You bet it does–on Twitter and Facebook.
This picture was taken by someone who actually saw the NASA UARS Satellite on the home stretch. Photographer David Bainbridge sent the picture in to one of my favorite web sites: spaceweather.com.
But in Portland and Vancouver and eastern Oregon and Washington we missed out even though it flew right overhead. Probably because the satellite was tumbling–and with… Read more
Sep
22
Sometimes (read: way too often) Summer in the Northwest is just a little slow getting started.
I’d definitely put Portland’s Summer 2011 in that category, wouldn’t you?
Just look at this first graphic. While much of the country was smashing hot weather records in July, people in Portland and Seattle were wondering: will summer ever start? Will this be a repeat of 1954–the only year in… Read more
Sep
21
I love how ‘instant’ everything is these days.
That includes the ability of so many to instantly share the fact they just saw a bright light in the sky!
Tonight, not long after 8 o’clock, we got a smattering of phone calls into the KOIN Local 6 Newsroomand some people were talking about it on Twitter and Facebook. I’m pretty sure it would have been… Read more
Sep
17
It’s b-a-a-a-a-c-k!
It’s the weather phenomena that usually means a cloudier and rainier rainy season.
Really, do we need any help with this?
Apparently we do: La Nina has re-developed in the Pacific Ocean less than three months after it faded away.
If you’re a regular blog reader or KOIN Local 6 viewer, you probably heard me say we were under aRead 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 ....
