Rod's Weather Headlines

PDX April precipitation total of 5.73" sets record for the wettest April all-time at PDX.  Records at the location date back to 1941.  The all-time April rainfall record at various Portland locations still stands at 7.88" back in 1883.  Portland Weather Service records for precip date back to 1871. ...

PDX reports 1" of snow, the most ever in the month of April. Airport snow records date back to October of 1940. 2" at KGW also breaks the downtown Portland record for snow this late in the season. Downtown records date back as far as the year 1870. Other reports as of 7:00 this morning: 2" Haze...

Arctic air to drop over the Rockies next week and spill into the Northwest as east winds start to blow during the day Tuesday.  Bitter cold at times Tuesday through Thursday night with possible snow Thursday night and Friday. Below is the American GFS model air mass map next Tuesday, the 22nd.  The...

An update to what continues to look like a very quiet and dry February overall.  Right now, I don’t see any daily precip totals reaching 1/4 inch in Portland until the 14th or possibly the 17th or 18th of February.  Earlier GFS weather models were flirting with cold weather around the 14th, but now ...

The NWS Warning Map is once again lit up. (Dark Green) Flood Watch Thursday and Friday for another inch of rain in the valley this afternoon and tonight and more rain Thursday night into Friday morning. In addition a warm front Wednesday night will bring rising snow levels to 6,000’ Thursday morni...

NWS has issued a Winter Storm Watch for the Willamette Valley and southwest Washington for Saturday afternoon through Sunday night. The main snow threat at low elevations, including downtown Portland continues to be Saturday evening into Monday morning. I still believe most areas will wake up to s...

Snow update time. Keep in mind the graphic shows current output from weather models that generally agree through the day Wednesday. Tomorrow, timelines, snow amounts, temps etc will likely change somewhat. I am giving you daily details, in an effort to paint a possible picture of what to expect a...

EXTENDED THOUGHTS INTO CHRISTMAS WEEKEND:Typical temp ranges and rain at times Wednesday and Thursday of next week. While forecast models still differ in outcomes, all seem to agree that starting Friday, our air will get colder into Christmas weekend. As I often do, I am trusting the EURO MODEL to...

An active December with low mountain snow levels and a threat of low elevation snow in the coming days is a weather story that may hang around through the new year. Snow levels have been near 1,000’ over the Coast Range with cold snow pockets in the hills of the west slope.  Meanwhile, snow level ov...

Our crazy warm November finishes as the 3rd warmest all-time at PDX in terms of mean temperature.  The mean of 50.4 was 3.3 degrees warmer than normal.  The average high of 56 degrees was the 6th warmest and the average low of 44.7 ties 1983 for the 3rd warmest low temp average in November.  The las...