Rod's Weather Headlines

Flood Watch for most of western Oregon and southwest Washington through Friday night.  Waves of steadyrain will generally push north up through Portland this morning as warm air advection continues. Heavyrain rates at times up to .50” of rain an hour with embedded convective activity.  There were li...

Residents of the northwest bracing for possible heavy rain event this evening through Friday night. A weak atmospheric river will accompany a warm front tonight to bring hours of steady rain, heavyat times into Thursday morning.  Widespread rain tonight will drop at least .50” of rain over Portlanda...

A warm front Wednesday evening will lead to steady rainfall overnight, adding up to .50" in Portland and beginning a stretch of mostly steady, heavy at times rainfall through Friday evening.  A weak atmospheric river will pump Pacific moisture into a convergence zone along a warm front to stationary...

This winter's outlook begins with what is fairly rare, a back to back La Nina winter season.  Our region is projected to have a moderate La Nina winter, matching last season's Enso cycle.  This will become just the 10th back to back La Nina since the cycle was documented starting in 1950.         {B...

An Excessive Heat Warning continues into this weekend for areas east of the Cascades,including Hood River and all of central Oregon, where triple digit heat will continue and in some cities, the worst of the heat is yet to arrive. Here is the final list of records from western Oregon and southwester...

The Excessive Heat Warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) for Saturdaythrough Monday will likely produce the season's first triple digit heat.The period of 90 degree or higher temperatures starting Friday and possibly continuing throughMonday July 5th is on track to be historic for sev...

You may have heard that the National Weather Service Summer Outlook for June - August calls for above normal temperatures across all of the Northwest and below normal rainfall. The news is not good as we come off of Portland's record dry spring, picking up just 27% of normal rainfall for March - Ma...

April finished as the driest month in the record book for Portland, both at PDX and the downtown location. Records at PDX date back to 1941 and downtown back to 1871. Until we pick up a few good soaks, a much drier than normal spring will continue to be a big weather story. PDX is running at 29%...

See The Super Full Pink Moon Tonight. (Skies will be partly cloudy.)(OMSI) The next full Moon will occur on Monday, April 26, 2021, at 8:32 p.m., and is known as the Full Pink Moon. It is also the first of two supermoons this year, which is a full moon that will appear to be slightly larger than av...

Latest outlooks from the National Weather Service suggest a warmer than normal May for much of Oregon and little confidence to project rainfall (EC = equal chance). The rainy pattern that returns this weekend could last through the 1st week of May. The 90-Day Outlook, May - July (seen below), sho...