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  • Thursday was mostly sunny with scattered afternoon fair-weather cumulus clouds dotting the skies at times and still a bit cool with lows in the mid 40s around midnight after rising into the low 60s in the early […]

  • Our day began with some light showers but they seem to have ended now looking at the radar.  Our temperatures are below average once again, but it doesn’t feel too bad out there.  I think there may have been a f […]

  • TEMPERATURES
    March 2021 averaged slightly below the Normal for both Maximum and Minimum Temperatures, though the first 4 days were well-above Normal as Maxima averaged a nearly +15° departure but quickly cooled […]

  • Wednesday was mostly cloudy with mostly AM light rain (0.19″) and a bit cooler temperatures with lows around 50 in the early AM rising slowly to about 60 in the late morning before the rain cooled us down a bit […]

  • Tuesday was partly cloudy and dry with temperatures rising slowly from the early AM upper 40s to the late afternoon mid 60s.

    Cloudy, cool conditions should continue on Wednesday with showers developing by […]

  • This recent warm weather that we have had, has really brought out the leaves on the trees and bushes. I think we are going to see the world greening up early this year. Last year at this time, […]

  • Monday was cloudy with light rain (0.16″) mostly during the morning hours remaining cloudy and cool the rest of the day with a bit of additional occasional light rain  in the evening with temperatures remaining in […]

  • Sunday started out cloudy with light rain (0.20″) during mostly the morning hours turning partly cloudy and warmer in the afternoon with high temperatures reaching well into the 70s.  

    After a cloudy, warm, s […]

  • Spring used to be my least-favorite season. Back in elementary and middle school, I grieved the transition to boring weather, the seasonal closing of ski resorts in the Cascades, and the departure of the windy, […]

    • I love a day off from school for “Tulip Day!” Great report, and crazy that there was snow on Saturday at Pine Hills. You gotta love crazy spring weather!

  • Yesterday was still quite mild, but afternoon and evening thunderstorms brought us over one inch of rain and much cooler temperatures.  Highs today will be closer to normal which will still be pleasant.  Winds a […]

  • Sunday started out cloudy with light rain (0.20″) during mostly the morning hours turning partly cloudy and warmer in the afternoon with high temperatures reaching well into the 70s.  

    After a cloudy, warm, s […]

  • I thought that it was supposed to be cold this weekend, but apparently, that has changed.  That’s okay.  We’re loving this early spring weather.  We had some thunderstorms move through yesterday afternoon and we […]

  • Friday was a cloudy, cooler, damp day. Rain started to fall about 0300 and continued for the next 3 hours or so with 0.35″ falling, The morning through mid-afternoon remained cool but stayed dry. The late […]

  • (Cover photo credit: Clifford Paguio Jr.)

    If you garden or have been outdoors recently, you’re probably aware of what a dry spring it has been in Portland and the northern Willamette Valley. In many years, […]

  • After almost a week of summer-like temperatures, showers and thunderstorms ushered in some much cooler air, and this will probably be the norm for a while.  Yesterday was still very warm and afternoon […]

  • Thursday was a mostly sunny, seasonably mild day for early April. Clouds started to filter in late with a rain system moving in early on this Friday morning as I type this, as rain started to fall about 0300 […]

  • weather bar 3

    Please click on the link shown above. I got it recently from my friend Bill Winkler out in Kansas, a humorous graphic of a bar with a variety of weather related images shown on TV screens at the […]

  • After yesterday morning’s thundershowers, the remainder of the day was partly cloudy and mild.  We received just under half an inch of rain.  Temps were in the mid 60s most of the day so it was nice to be out a […]

  • Our day began with clouds, then thundershowers moved through our area.  It’s the first for this year.  We received just under half an inch and now there is some clearing and a little sun.  Our Easter Sunday was ab […]

  • La Nina years are known for bringing hefty snows to the Cascades. I still remember the La Nina year of 2007-2008, when I went skiing in the Alpental backcountry on Memorial Day with my mom. We had to skirt around […]

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