May
20
It’s heartbreaking.
Pictures like this AP photo of a woman carrying a child away from the devastation in Moore, Oklahoma on the afternoon of May 20, 2013.
Preliminary Tornado Strength: EF-4 with wind speeds up to 200mph.
Death Toll: Sure to climb as searches go through rubble
The most powerful types of tornadoes (EF-4 & EF-5) make us just 1% of the tornadoes in the United States each year. But they account for 67% of… Read more
May
09
Friday morning May 10, 2013 was spectacular in some parts of Australia.
This is a picture of the so-called “Ring Of Fire” where the moon passing in front of the sun is not quite big enough to cover the entire sun as we see it.
I found this photo by Nicole Hollenbeck on one of my favorite sites, spaceweather.com.
And for fun, check ou the Realtime Eclipse Photo Gallery.
May
03
Ahhh, Spring.
A lot of sun time.
Blue sky above the KOIN Tower (shown here).
And warm weather most of the time.
Uh, most years, this would describe anywhere but the Pacific Northwest, including Portland and the Willamette Valley.
But so far, Spring 2013 has been unusually dry and warm. And that overall trend may take us right into a hot & dry northwest summer.
See the brown colors? Those are the places that NOAA… Read more
Apr
18
Remember the water wars of summer’s past?
Where thousands of fish died in Klamath County and farmers and ranchers were angry because no one had enough water to go around?
Or how about the year Oregon’s Detroit Lake was so low that boat docks sat on dirt–instead of in the water?
I remember do live reports–from the lake bed around this dock!
Now, with a much drier than normal 3 1/2 month start to… Read more
Apr
05
April 5, 1972.
Vancouver, Washington.
As the Oregonian headline reported the next day…the tornado killed 6 people and hurt 300.
It was the Portland-Vancouver metro area’s deadliest weather day in history.
Now, check out the new video the National Weather Service in Portland, Oregon put together. It tells the complete story.
Mar
30
There’s always a day each spring when everyone suddenly comes out of ‘hibernation’.
And Saturday March 30, 2013 was definitely that day.
And it was Portland’s hottest March day in almost two decades with a high of 77 degrees, a new record high for the date. As it turns out, Saturday was just for starters.
Here’s the graphic I used on the 11 o’clock news Saturday night. One other fact? Of all the… 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 ....
