Rod's Weather Headlines

WINTER ADVISORY THROUGH 10:00 AM FOR THE VALLEY.  SCATTERED MIX OF SHOWERS FROM THE SOUTH   MOVING NORTHEAST WITH EARLY TEMPS NEAR 32 DEGREES ACROSS THE REGION.  ICY ROADS ARE EXPECTED DUE TO THE TEMPERATURE AND A SNOW MIX OF PASSING SHOWERS. Winds are calm this morning with fog being reported.  The...

Most areas report 28-33 degrees at this hour with a mix of partly cloudy skies and windsstarting to back to the east 5-15 mph.  Black ice is a concern with the cold temps.  Gorgetemps are much colder at 23 degrees in Hood River.  With east wind picking up, the gorgetemps will be watched closely toda...

Colder air is on track to arrive Monday evening as all showers will turn to snow.  Overnight windswill remain from the west, which may hold ground temps in Portland at 32 degrees or slightly warmer.   However, freezing temps for much of the valley is a good bet and dustings of snowto 2” on the groun...

ARCTIC AIR IS ON TRACK TO SURGE SOUTHWARD OVER OUR REGION WITH THE MAIN PUSH OF COLD ARRIVING DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. Moisture patterns next week continue to be uncertain, but the cold and likely developing eastwinds are likely.  The coldest American GFS Model (below) shows dew points dropping into ...

A rainy Thursday will be followed by the heaviest rain rates Friday and Friday night.  Total rainfall projections at Portland show up to 2.75" of total rain Wednesday night through Friday night.  Saturday will see a cold front pass, breaking rain into showers and dropping an additional .40" of rainf...

WINTER STORM WARNING FOR CASCADES   A push of deep moisture arriving this evening and streaming inland much of the night will fall as snow over the Cascades at elevations near 5,000 feet and higher.  A WINTER STORM WARNING has been issued for the Cascades where 10-20” of snow could accumulate fr...

The wild weekend weather was highlighted with Sunday’s headline of the coldest September day on record for the Rose City!  Downtown Portland recorded a high temperature of 49 degrees, becoming the only September day in 145 years of record keeping to not reach 50 degrees.  In fact the previous rec...

Today’s weak cold front is the first push of colder air returning to the Northwest.  A  more impressive cool-off arrives Friday, bringing increasing showers and eventually the coldest overnight lows and daytime highs of the early fall season.    Assuming showers mostly end for the valley Sunday...

NWS confirms an EF-0 tornado Sunday for three minutes, 6:44-6:47 pm in western Multnomah County. Winds estimated at 65 mph, path length 800 feet by 360 feet wide at maximum. No injuries but minor damage reported at Plumpers Pumpkin Patch near Cornelius Pass Road.   The weather service did not find...

RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON 0425 PM PDT TUE AUG 27 2019 ...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET ON AUGUST 27TH, 2019... A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 98 DEGREES WAS SET AT PORTLAND OR TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 97 SET IN 1972. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF...