Mar
11
It was late February, 2011. It was dark. It was cold. And it was snowing.
I was warm in the PinPoint Weather Center and you were probably warm and cozy at home watching KOIN Local 6 at 11, right? Right!
But news photographer Matt Rashleigh was spending hours in snow up above I-5 in Vancouver, giving us live pictures of every wet flake.
That’s the life… Read more
Mar
04
This is the first in a series of Friday posts. I’m going to do interviews and have guest blogs most Fridays, just for fun.
And why not start with someone I respect and enjoy working with at KOIN Local 6?
Here’s my interview with Meteorologist Matt Brode. Meet Matt…
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
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 ....
