Rod's Weather Headlines

Most of western Oregon (pink to red color) is under a RED FLAG WARNING for high fire danger today and Saturday. The dry conditions along with near record high temperatures and a dry east wind will continue to produce higher fire danger than normal for April. Several counties have burn bans in plac...

Below is a list of PDX records and weather facts from our big storm: 1. 9.4" at PDX over a 24-hour period Feb. 12-13th sets the all-time February record for a single 24-hour event. 2. The 9.6" of total snow this month is 2nd all time for the month of February. (Record is 13.2" in 1949) 3. The sn...

NWS has issued an Ice Storm Warning for Portland from 1:00 pm on this Sunday to 6:00 a.m. Monday morning.  Mid and upper levels of the atmosphere will see warming as lower levels fueled by a cold east wind, will hold near freezing.  Portland and Vancouver will see showery or light precip Sunday afte...

The combination of two winter storm fronts will deliver accumulating freezing rain, sleet and snow in downtown Portland Thursday night, Friday and Saturday.  A 3rd front Sunday night will bring possible warming to our region, but it’s too early to tell when the threat of winterweather will end. Port...

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch for all of western Oregon except the coast and up through southwest Washington and the gorge. The watch begins Thursday afternoon and expires Saturday morning (but may be extended).  Steady moisture increasing Thursday daytime and showers...

Flood Watch in effect until 10:00 a.m. Wednesday.   Below are total rain projections from Monday evening through Tuesday night.  Rod Hill 

The map below from NWS shows a FLOOD WATCH for all of western Oregon and southwest Washington (dark green color), starting this evening and lasting into Wednesday morning. A warm front will bring developing rain or showers today. The main event begins this evening with hours of steady rain. Hours...

A warm front arriving Tuesday night and a trailing cold front Wednesday afternoon will kick-off a stretchof active weather through New Year's and into the mid-part of next week.  The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for tonight startingat midnight and lasting into Thursd...

A FLOOD WATCH continues today for our region.  Rain totals since last evening are generally aroundan inch here in the valley, which matches forecast projections.  Steady rain continue to fall today, tonight and much of Monday with an additional 1-2” of rain, pushing storm totals to 2.50 - 3.25” over...

Heavy weekend rains may lead to flooding issues in typical smaller water way basins and near burn scarsleft from September’s wildfires.  Forecast models show 2.25 - 3.00” of total rainfall tonight through the day Monday over the Willamette Valley and southwest Washington.  Coast rain totals may reac...