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 … [Read more...]
Incredible Rain, More Flood Potential Ahead
While digging through the record books, I discovered something quite crazy about the rain over the last 7 days in Portland. 27% of the rainy season's total (this starts with our water year on October 1 each year) fell during the last 7 days. Isn't that a crazy statistic? It's certainly … [Read more...]
Like A Monsoon: Heavy Rain & 100mph Winds On Mt. Hood
Did you catch Sally Showman's live reports from Mt. Hood Meadows last night? They were incredible. It was just her, the pouring rain and an empty parking lot on what is typically the busiest ski and snowboarding week of the year. And look at these 24hour RAIN totals. More than 6" of rain at … [Read more...]
Did Man-Made Snow Fall In McMinnville?
With no storm systems even close by--and nearly 50 degree temperatures up on Mt. Hood...you can imagine I was stunned to hear it had just snowed in McMinnville and we already had the pictures coming in to my KOIN Local 6 colleague, Meteorologist Matt Brode. Right after that, I found out we'd … [Read more...]
Santa Ana Wind Storm Slams Los Angeles, San Diego & Vegas
On the night the Oregon Duck's clinched their spot to go back to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena...people in that very city were in the middle of what you see in this picture: cleaning up from a damaging Santa Ana wind storm that came in two different blasts. This picture is a Pasadena city street. So … [Read more...]
We Should Have Called It ‘Wild Weather Wednesday’
A wild Wednesday in so many ways. Peak gusts from the south topped 40mph some places--hitting their max between 7 and 10pm. Thousands lost power. And temperatures shot up after dark. Portland was about 10 degrees warmer at 11pm than it had been at noon! We had a dusting of snow in Hood … [Read more...]
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