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
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
03
It happened during KOIN Local 6 at 6pm this week. Jeff Gianola said to me across the studio, “Bruce, look at that! It’s 6:05 and all our live reports still show daylight.”
Kelley Day then says to both us, “I love this time of year, when the days are getting longer!”
Nooo doubt.
That’s when I decided to dig into how much daylight we are adding around the… Read more
Mar
02
After an extended vacation that started in January, La Nina returned and unpacked her bags by the end of February.
The charts says it all.
And it’s the way we ended February 2011 that caused so many mudslides in Oregon and Washington. Still, the month overall was much different than the first month of winter, December 2010.
Western Oregon, SW… Read more
Feb
28
For awhile, La Nina seemed to be on vacation.
Much of January was dry, snow-pack was shrinking and you needed sunglasses more than a winter coat.
That was then and this is now.
La Nina To The Northwest: I’m Still Running The Show
Let’s compare what La Nina should mean for our winter weather vs. what’s happening this week:
Feb
03
The February 2011 blizzard closed twenty-five interstates.
It impacted about 100 million people.
And it was Chicago’s third biggest blizzard on record. More than 20″ of snow fell there.
Even places with less snow had big drifts. My cousin Shelley took this picture of the storm aftermath in Topeka, Kansas the day after the storm. So we all get the picture that many people will now spend days digging out.… 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 ....
