Jan
26
The whole thing started innocently enough. With snow showers and sun breaks right down to the waters of the Pacific Ocean…and the Willamette River…and the Columbia River.
Don Best took this picture of Rockaway Beach, Oregon on January 16th after an early morning snow shower. There’s just something about Oregon & Washington beaches covered in snow that gets me every time!
Here’s a shot from… Read more
Jan
24
While digging through the record books, I discovered something quite crazy about the rain over the last 7 days in Portland.
27% of the rainy season’s total (this starts with our water year on October 1 each year) fell during the last 7 days. Isn’t that a crazy statistic?
It’s certainly rare.
Now another atmospheric river (like a pipeline of water in the sky) is setting… Read more
Dec
29
Did you catch Sally Showman’s live reports from Mt. Hood Meadows last night?
They were incredible. It was just her, the pouring rain and an empty parking lot on what is typically the busiest ski and snowboarding week of the year.
And look at these 24hour RAIN totals. More than 6″ of rain at… Read more
Dec
07
With no storm systems even close by–and nearly 50 degree temperatures up on Mt. Hood…you can imagine I was stunned to hear it had just snowed in McMinnville and we already had the pictures coming in to my KOIN Local 6 colleague, Meteorologist Matt Brode.
Right after that, I found out we’d also had several calls from different people who were seeing the snow.
And if seeing… Read more
Dec
03
On the night the Oregon Duck’s clinched their spot to go back to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena…people in that very city were in the middle of what you see in this picture: cleaning up from a damaging Santa Ana wind storm that came in two different blasts.
This picture is a Pasadena city street. So many trees were blown down by gusts up to 80mph that… Read more
Nov
17
A wild Wednesday in so many ways.
Peak gusts from the south topped 40mph some places–hitting their max between 7 and 10pm. Thousands lost power.
And temperatures shot up after dark. Portland was about 10 degrees warmer at 11pm than it had been at noon!
We had a dusting of snow in Hood River, inches of snow in the Cascades and rain–lots of rain. Both Lincoln City… 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 ....
