Rod's Weather Headlines

I am forecasting 33 degrees tonight for Salem and Portland.  (It could be warmer!)  So, after all of my talk, most of the metro will see steady rain this evening and heavy rain at times Wednesday and Thursday.  Caution:  Cold pockets will be possible.  Please watch the temperature closely tonight.  ...

SUNDAY EVENING UPDATE 8:00 P.M. //  One of the main forecast models I use shows the following:  Light snow starts Tuesday afternoon, changes to sleet or freezing rain before midnight and quickly to all rain as early as 5:00 a.m. Wednesday morning.  If true, Portland would see up to 4" of snow before...

Colder air arriving Monday will bring gusty east winds and allow metro temperatures in the 20s Tuesday overnight as moisture approaches from the south.  The set up will bring a warm front pushing up from our south with east winds driving cold air into the moisture north of the warm front as it arriv...

This morning, January 6th, became the first day the sun starts to rise earlier each morning! It is true that our sunset has been happening later for a while.  If you go back to December, when the sunrise was 7:43 and the sunset was 4:27, we have to date picked up less than 10 extra minutes of total...

December 2010 at PDX will finish with 8.35" of precipitation, including a trace of snow.  Normal for the month is 5.71".  Our water year total ( since Oct. 1st) is 18.85", which is +4.60" above normal to date.   Timberline reports 307" of total snowfall this season.  Last season, the lodge did not...

Snow levels will sharply fall by early Wednesday.  A westerly flow will keep metro temperatures above freezing until lighter winds develop by early Thursday.  Wednesday will see temperatures bounce between 34 & 40 degrees with passing showers.  Low elevations will see anything from mostly rain showe...

Cool water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific continue to be 1.4 to 1.7 degrees centigrade cooler than normal, which is classified as a moderate to strong La Nina.  About ten days ago, I mentioned Portland would enter a period of heavy rain and would likely see 10.00" this month.  We know now, t...

Here are the headlines of our La Nina Fall 2010: 1.  September, October, November & December all above normal rainfall.  This becomes only the 3rd time since 1999, that PDX has had four consecutive months of above normal rainfall.  The water year total, beginning Oct. 1st, is 16.34".  The rain surp...

Here is an early look at Christmas Day.  All forecasts can change, but the following seems to be a good bet: A strong southerly jet stream will push occasional rain north into Oregon and Washington Thursday, Friday and Christmas day.  Snow levels will rise to near 4,000 feet Thursday and 5,000' or...

A 50-50% chance of partly cloudy skies Monday night to see at least a glimpse of the total LUNAR ECLIPSE.  The moon will move through the dark shadow of the Earth and for 73 minutes, the only light hitting the moon will be the reddish glow from the Earth's sunrises and sunsets.  The Eclipse will beg...