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With a mean temperature of 60.1 degrees, October 2014 becomes the warmest all time at PDX.  (Records began in 1940) The average high for the month was 68 degrees, which is third warmest all time.   The average low for the month was 52.1 degrees, which is the warmest all time.  The rainfall amou...

Before I begin, let me remind you that our wet weather since October 11th was not projected. In fact, October was forecast to see below normal rainfall. To date, Portland is on track to see more than 4.00" of total rainfall for the month, well above the climate average of 3.00 inches. The last two w...

A forecast for partly to mostly clear skies Tuesday overnight and early Wednesday morning should provide a decent view of this week's total Lunar Eclipse. The full moon will slide through the dark shadow of the Earth and for 58 minutes the only light hitting the moon with be the reddish glow from Ea...

September continued Portland's hot summer. Climate numbers from the National Weather Service show September tied the all-time PDX record for mean temperature of 67.6 degrees. The average low last month was 56.5 degrees, which was the 2nd warmest on record. (Records at PDX date back to 1941.) Both th...

Today's cloudy, wet weather is perfect for the first full day of fall and a reminder that summer has ended. Despite the talk of a long dry summer, the record book will remember Portland's warm season has typically dry with a little bit of rain. Precipitation totals show only one unusually dry month:...

Colors are changing and fall is near! Summer ends and autumn begins this coming Monday, September 22, at 7:29 p.m. local time with the Autumnal Equinox. On that day, the north and south pole will be equal distances towards the sun at 93.2 million miles away. At the moment of the Equinox, the sun sta...

  The Visible Satellite photo clearly shows the smoke plume from the fire east of Estacada, blowing over the Willamette valley. If you look closely, you can see brown colors in the haze. If not for the fire, Portland's sky would be perfectly blue today. The Air Quality Map from DEQ, show in green,...

August 2014 goes into the record book as the warmest ever at PDX!  The overall mean temperature of 73.1 degrees breaks the old record of 72.9 degrees, set back in 1967.   In addition, the average low temperature for August 2014 of 61.4 degrees also becomes the warmest minimum since records at PD...

Today's Portland high of 90 degrees or better becomes the 16th day this year, which matches my summer forecast of being the hottest since the record summer of 2009. Current forecast outlooks call for above normal temperatures and drier than normal weather this coming September, October and November...

Monday's high temperature of 93 degrees at PDX becomes the 10th, 90-degree day of 2014.  With 90 degree temperatures likely into the first 2-weeks of September, Portland is on pace to see 16 or more 90 degree days this summer, which would be the most since the record summer of 2009, when PDX...