Jan
30
A funny thing happened on my way to doing the 5 o’clock weather forecast: an earthquake hit a single mile northeast of Amboy, Washington and was felt as far away as Vernonia in the Coast Range, Sherwood on the metro area’s west side and Oregon City on the metro area’s east side.
I sure didn’t see that one coming at 5:03pm! I doubt you did, either.… Read more
Jan
26
The whole thing started innocently enough. With snow showers and sun breaks right down to the waters of the Pacific Ocean…and the Willamette River…and the Columbia River.
Don Best took this picture of Rockaway Beach, Oregon on January 16th after an early morning snow shower. There’s just something about Oregon & Washington beaches covered in snow that gets me every time!
Here’s a shot from… Read more
Nov
22
Why did the Salmon cross the road?
To get to the other side, of course!
Check out this video from near Shelton, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula. Inches of rain made roads bad for driving but apparently great for swimming on Tuesday November 22, 2011.
Nov
20
You’re looking at our KOIN Local 6 computer created estimates of the total rainfall between now and Wednesday evening.
C-R-A-Z-Y.
But true?
Can we believe Portland could see almost 6″ of rain this week or that Tillamook could see 5″ of rain?
I’m treating this like I treat any estimate of rain totals: don’t count on hitting an exact number that’s bound to change as we go through… Read more
Oct
12
On Wednesday evening October 12, 2011, a magnitude 5.9 quake rumbled under the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon Coast.
It was a little more than 200miles west-southwest of Newport, Oregon.
This was too small to generate any kind of tsunami (closer to magnitude 7.0 is the approximate ‘tsunami generating size’ of quake you need).
But it’s a reminder that the Pacific Northwest is an earthquake… Read more
May
07
You remember the music group Survivor, right? Well, only if you know the song “Eye of the Tiger” from 1982. Survivor is a one hit wonder.
And you know Los Del Rio, don’t you? Only if you’ve been to a wedding reception and danced to the “Macarena”! Another one hit wonder. This time from 1996.
But who can forget Lipps, Inc.? C’mon–you know them. Well, only for… 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 ....
