Rod's Weather Headlines

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...

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 130 PM PST TUE DEC 14 2010 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 1144 AM TORNADO AUM...

Portland, Oregon (Tuesday, December 14th 2010) 9:05pm PT -- "The strongest tornado to strike Oregon and Washington in 17 years tore through the small western Oregon town of Aumsville just before noon Tuesday. The National Weather Service has preliminarily classified today's tornado as an EF2 on the...

Windstorm Anniversary --- "It was 15 years ago today (12/12/1995) that many locations from California to the Canadian boarder experienced one of the strongest windstorms since the Columbus Day storm of Oct 1962. The windstorm of December 12th 1995 eventually took a track to the NW tip of Washington....

Here are some of the heaviest weekend rain totals: Lee's Camp, Coast Range:  6.70" Bonneville Dam:  3.80" Mt. Hood:  3.50" Astoria:  3.16" Gresham:  1.50" Portland, PDX:  1.41" Vancouver:  1.35" Salem:  .93"  

.A MOIST STORM SYSTEM AND WARM FRONT WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN TO MUCH OF NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ON SATURDAY... WITH ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. ON SATURDAY...THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS LIKELY TO BE IN THE NORTH OREGON COAST RANGE...WILLAPA HILLS...AND SO...

 Record rain in Portland Thursday of 1.42 inches.  A second of push of heavy rain will fall Saturday and Saturday night.   Rain Forecast Saturday, Saturday night: Salem, Portland Metro:  1.25" - 2.00" Coast:  2 - 3.00" Coast Range:  3 - 6.00" ______________________________ Many area streams an...

As a forecaster, much of the coming ten days look wet!  The pattern continues to support above normal rainfall, but no "big" storms.  Meaning, the threat of flooding or high winds looks minimal, with the exception of this coming Saturday night.  Heavy rain amounts of an inch or more Saturday, couple...

I want to take a second and clarify the meaning of the snow level I list on the 5-Day Snow Forecast, found on the Mt. Hood Weather page.   The snow level is the elevation at which all precipitation will fall as snow.  The snow level is typically 1,000 feet below the freezing level in the atmosphere...

As promised Tuesday's storm was a wet one!  Tillamook had more than 2.00" of rain, Salem had over an inch, PDX .84" and Timberline picked up 18" of snow!  The Portland rain total closed November at 6.63" for the month, more than inch above the average of 5.61 inches.  Not a "super" wet month, but ou...