Rod's Weather Headlines

A significant accumulation of freezing rain and sleet is set to move into the I-5 corridor during the day Thursday.  After a dry start to the day, light icy precipitation will slowly develop Thursday afternoon.  Due to cold temps in the low to mid 20s and gusty east winds, the initial wave of moistu...

A large Arctic air mass will shift southward across the northern Rockies and the midwest Wednesday and Thursday, dropping all the way into Texas. Our local area will see gusty east winds develop on the back, west side of the Arctic air mass, possibly setting the stage for hours of freezing rain and...

Early Sunday Morning Update For Cold Air And Valley Snow Chance:Increasing rain over the next 1-2 hours as the cold front arrives. South winds are gusty in the region from the coast to the valley, 15-30 mph and will pick up in the coming hours in the gorge. A WINTER STORM WARNING is in effect for...

NWS issues a Wind Advisory (light brown shade) for the Portland and Vancouver metro areas today through 7:00 a.m. Friday. Gusty east winds 15-30 mph will return for much of the valley. The east side near the gorge could see 40-50 mph gusts. Also high winds of 40-50 mph are expected at elevations...

An Atmospheric River is taking aim at the Northwest with hours of mostly steady rain expected Thursday night, Friday and Friday night.  Atmospheric Rivers are elongated plumes of precipitable moisture in the Pacific that channel into a location from as little as 12 hours to at times 3 days.  These e...

For the 3rd time since records have kept track of so called El Nino and La Nina dating back to 1950, a rare 3rd consecutive La Nina season is projected by NOAA.  The following outlook is based on a moderate La Nina transitioning to Neutral conditions this coming spring.   The graphic shows La Nina N...

Some of the worst air quality of the season today thanks to an easterly flow pattern bringing wildfire smoke over the valley. The maps from Oregon & Washington DEQ shows many reporting sites from Salem to Longview as "RED" or unhealthy for all age and health groups. More of a westerly wind flow Th...

Portland (PDX) September climate report: Average high 80.9°, 3rd warmest Average low 58.1, warmest all timeAverage mean 69.5, warmest all time and 4.1 degrees above normal. Remember August mean temperature of 75.1°, set the record for the warmest of any month at PDX all time. October is starting...

Lower fire danger today (Sunday), Air Quality Advisory for south Willamette Valley and areas generally south of Salem. Expecting wildfire haze to thin a bit over Salem, Portland and Vancouver. East winds have calmed after seeing 40 mph wind gusts through the gorge and over the Cascades. Metro val...

Red Flag Warning for high fire danger continues until 11:00 pm this evening (Saturday). East winds met the minimum threshold of the forecast in most locations yesterday. KGW.com has news of a brush fire that sparked near Estacada at Milo McIver State Park, prompting level 3 - go now evacuations....