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
26
For the last two evenings, I’ve been talking about the chance for low elevation snow this weekend in the Willamette Valley and Southwest Washington.
But this morning, I needed a definite answer to this question: Will it snow soon in the I-5 Corridor of Oregon and SW Washington?
Sometimes I turn to the Weather Guesser 6,000. But it always leaves me, um, guessing.
So I posed the question to… Read more
Feb
24
Think the snow on Rockaway Beach, Oregon this morning (or at your house) means it’s cold already?
Kinda, sorta. But now it’s time for the deep freeze.
Arctic Air Is Plunging Through Northern Washington and is headed our way. For Portland, the Willamette Valley and even the Oregon Coast it will mean the coldest temperatures this winter. And records may fall.
Record Lows… Read more
Feb
23
Of course, by the time you read this post, maybe the headline should say, “It was snowing in Portland and the Oregon Coast.”
Or, maybe it should say, “It’s going to snow in Portland and at the Oregon Coast.”
All three headlines would be correct. And I think that’s part of what’s driving so many people crazy right now. Aside from waiting for snow to stick. … 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 ....
