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Could Be Dry, Except For Monday

By Rod Hill on 2010-05-28

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FRIDAY HOLIDAY UPDATE

By Rod Hill on 2010-05-28

Portland and Salem metro areas will see cloudy skies Saturday morning, followed by increasing afternoon sunshine. Winds will be light with highs in the 60s. Sunday will be much warmer. Clouds will increase and temperatures will warm to 70 degrees. Showers will become possible by late day and like...

Year Compares to 2005

By Rod Hill on 2010-05-26

This is our first wet spring since 2005. Early National Weather Service outlooks calling for a warm and normal to dry spring were WRONG! Computer models into June are showing signs of a wet pattern continuing into next month. Here is what is interesting: 2005 was very similar to this year. A dr...

Memorial Day Weekend First Look

By Rod Hill on 2010-05-23

The most confident part of the Memorial Day weekend forecast is a call for warming temperatures across the Salem and Portland metro areas. Showers look likely Friday and Saturday with cool highs 60-65 degrees. There is some question as to a rain chance Sunday & Monday. I am holding out hope for t...

By Rod Hill on 2010-05-16

The space shuttle Atlantis will be visible Saturday evening at 9:36 in the southwestern sky. Look up at 11 degrees altitude. The shuttle will be moving to the southwest and appear as a fast moving star or night aircraft, higher in the sky than usual. A second sighting will be possible Sunday even...

First Stretch Of Warm Spring Days

By Rod Hill on 2010-05-12

Thursday and Friday will deliver the first back to back 70 degree days since September. Any temperature tomorrow above 73 will become the warmest of the year to date. No records expected, but the warming temperatures will be welcome. Most records this time of the year sit between 85 and 95 degrees...

Record Cold & Rising Snowpack

By Rod Hill on 2010-05-05

The high of 50 degrees Tuesday in Portland becomes the lowest high temperature on record for May 4th. The month has had high temperatures reach only 49 degrees on May 1st and the 6th. The air mass this week is truly as cold as it can possibly be this time of year! More good news from the Cascades...

Not That Much, But Lots Of Days

By Rod Hill on 2010-04-30

April 2010 will come to and Friday night. The month will see a new record for the number of days with .01" of rainfall or more. The old record was 23 days back in 1955. Today, the 29th of April, became the 25th day of measurable rainfall. We will see possible showers Friday evening, which means...

50 degree Days Can Last Into June

By Rod Hill on 2010-04-25

The forecast is calling for a stretch of days with highs in the 50s this week. In case you are wondering, chilly afternoon highs in the 50s are in the PDX record book all the way into June 26th! We are getting into the time of year you would expect to see 70 degree temperatures a little more ofte...

No Big Snow Storms In Sight

By Rod Hill on 2010-04-19

Manual snowpack measurements are taken on Mt. Hood through the end of April. With no big snowstorms in sight, it looks like the Cascade snow season is coming to an end. Skibowl resort closed for the season Sunday with the resorts traditional food drive day. Here is where the Mt. Hood snowpack stan...