Dec
05
I always know it’s a wet day in the Portland-Vancouver area when “Lake Sussman” appears.
That is, a giant mud puddle in the lower right side of our yard.
As you see here, Portland had over an inch of rain on Tuesday December 4, 2012–but this time of year, that’s not even close to a record. The rainiest place our PinPoint Weather team tracked in the… Read more
Nov
20
Check out these peak gusts along the Oregon and Washington Coasts. The top gusts are the same force as winds you’d see in a major category 3 hurricane.
No wonder we had so much damage and so much power out on Monday November 19, 2012. Peak gusts in the Willamette Valley topped out at 51mph in McMinnville and in the metro area the strongest gust was… Read more
Nov
17
The Pineapple Express is coming to town. And that rarely means anything good for the northwest except for people who like it really wet and windy.
This is our KOIN Local 6 in-house RainCast for 9am Monday. Places like Portland, Vancouver, Salem and Newport will be under a Pacific firehose that, in meteorology, we call an ‘atmospheric river.’ It’s a setup that allows a lot of… Read more
Oct
29
Hurricane Sandy is going to do so much damage & devastation to the northeast that it’s going to be hard to believe.
These pictures are coming in on Twitter from Atlantic City, New Jersey–a full 12 hours before landfall is expected along the New Jersey Coast.
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The strongest winds? Still offshore.
The biggest storm surge of water to… Read more
Oct
12
Is this crazy or what?
I mean–we had .25″ of rain in 3 months and next thing you know it’s rainy cats and dogs and doesn’t stop.
In the graphic you can see that Portland, Vancouver and Salem all smashed rainfall records for October 12th.
And there are two more amazing things, to me, anyway:
Apr
13
The Portland metro area’s first thunderstorm of 2012 developed over Newberg & Dundee around 5:45 on Thursday evening April 12.
By 6:30pm, the storm was creating lightning and thunder over Hillsboro, Aloha and parts of Beaverton. Thanks to Aaron and Ryan for the pictures of the storm. With only about a dozen or so lightning strikes from this storm you guys really nailed the timing to… 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 ....
