Jan
22
Big parts of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington are under a Freezing Rain Advisory until Noon on Wednesday January 23, 2013.Jan
18
Oooh.
Ahhh.
It’s one of the most beautiful sunrise views I’ve seen in a long time. Our KOIN Tower camera was just above the Portland fog on Friday January 18, 2013.
Areas in the fog–had lots of things coated in frost, like these Portland area spider webs. The tiny water droplets in fog land on something frozen and slowly but surely the amount of frost on that object grows over time.
Up above… Read more
Jan
15
We’re entering that weird ‘twilight zone of weather’ where things are not what they seem.
Or at least, not what they usually are!
Low clouds, fog and chilly air will be stuck in the Willamette Valley this week. But along the coast days will be sunnier sooner and as much as 10 degrees warmer than Portland.
But do you really want to warm up and have all day sunshine? Mt. Hood is your best bet this… Read more
Jan
14
Updated – 11:45pm Monday night: most temperatures have warmed 1-2 degrees in the last few hours. This means a temperature range of 31-34 for the morning commute. So some slick spots but I have a feeling many areas will be just fine for the morning commute.
At 5:43pm tonight, the National Weather Service Issued a Freezing Rain Advisory for the area in this map, including Portland, Vancouver and the surrounding metro area.
Even areas… Read more
Jan
12
Here we go.
Jan
10
We did the ‘six cars in the ditch’ trick up on Skyline Boulevard in Portland’s West Hills.
KOIN Weather intern Jeff Raetz measured 1″ of snow at the 900′ level on Mt. Scott, on Portland’s east side.
And we had some neighborhoods turn white for a couple of hours on this morning of January 9, 2013. This one is at elevation 750′ in Happy Valley.
But get out of the hills–and what… 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 ....
