On a Wednesday morning where most of us are
staying above freezing with nothing sticking,
I'm meteorologist Rod Hill.
With this KGW 8 plus weather update,
temperatures up and down the heart of
the valley did hold generally between
about 34 and 36 degrees last night,
and we're starting off again.
We're taping this for you 834 right
now in the morning on Wednesday.
It looks, it looks to me like
the snow level on average.
There can always be fluctuations with
little spots of pool cold weather,
but for the most part I think.
500 feet is gonna be the snow level today.
Yesterday we said sticking snow
generally just above 1000 feet.
That turned out to be a really good forecast.
We'll see how we do today.
I am watching the winds and
that's where I start.
So notice the South winds racing up by
518 mile per hour breezes into Portland
West winds at the coast WS winds,
warmer winds, right?
But notice the Dows.
This is just started to pick up east of 20.
So what's going to happen
in the coming hours?
It's tough to tell exactly the timing,
but in the coming hours east winds are
going to continue to build in the gorge.
Eventually those will pop out into
E Clark and E Multnomah County.
And when that happens, a couple things.
Number one,
it will actually start to dry out
the precipitation possibilities
and that outflow area.
So the north Willamette Valley,
which is the Portland metro
area and up into Clark County,
the chance for precipitation
will start to decrease somewhat.
It will also set the stage of bringing
in colder air because the east wind
is going to feed off of an Arctic
air mass that's off to our east.
So that's the reason that we're
forecasting overnight lows tonight
into Thursday morning to be near
20 degrees here in the valleys.
We start to turn the page on this little
weather event to the headline becoming
it's really, really cold outside.
Anyway.
I do want to get to the watch warning map.
We still have the winter storm warnings up
for the Cascades and for the coast range.
Has it been a ton of snow.
We had a live reporter this morning
up at the Sunset Rest area on Hwy.
26, that's about 14140 feet.
And Bryant clerkley reporting there
was only like an inch or so up there.
I thought there'd be more,
but that's what Brian said he found.
I think when you get up to the summit
area there is a little bit more,
but not a ton.
Now you get up in the Cascades.
It was generally give or take a
foot of snow that fell yesterday.
I was forecasting 10 to 16 inches.
They got a foot and it there
could be snow showers today.
No more than 4 inches,
but the warnings continue.
The passes are certainly well snow
covered with cold temperatures
up in the Cascades and most
of the coast range cameras this
morning also show some snow cover
that snow level about 500 feet.
OK, real quick and white
Eugene up to about Wilsonville.
This is an advisory for snow.
They call it a winter weather advisory.
I'm like what does that mean?
It's an advisory for snow basically that's
for 500 foot elevation during the day
today where there could be you know as
we just talked an inch or two of snow.
And then once we get into
the nighttime hours tonight,
remember the temperatures are
going to drop into the 20s.
This will be the best chance for there
to be decent snow shower activity that
would cover the ground with a dusting
to an edge in scattered locations.
That's what's going on there.
You move up north,
the baby blue color for Portland
up into southwest Washington.
This is a wind chill advisory.
The National Weather Service
begins at a midnight tonight,
goes through tomorrow morning.
That's for the east winds coming
out of the gourds and combination
of temperatures in the 20s.
So at times tonight in the gustier winds,
it could feel like.
Despite 6710 degrees Fahrenheit the actual
lows tonight will be closer to 20 degrees.
So that's what we're watching
on the watch warning map.
Here's the radar again.
This is at 8:38 in the
morning on this Wednesday.
The green is been mostly rain over
downtown port but look at all the
different snow areas and why it has
been snow out in the gorge they've
got what looks to be a dusty to an
inch depending on your exact location
in the Hood River area down along
the Columbia River out in the gorge.
By the way downtown Portland
there we've been holding in the.
The 30s but well above freezing.
Some of the past cameras 23 degrees
right now on this Wednesday morning.
A government camp Hwy.
26 O dot continually plows that
but the temperatures so too cold
for them to actually scour out the
snow and ice that's on the road.
So the passes will continue to be slow going.
They're santiam pass. Look how cold it is.
19 degrees right now.
Willamette pass. Very snow covered.
Also in 19 degrees, 18.5.
Alright, what about the Sunset Rest area?
This is where our live
reporter was this morning.
Now if you look roadside,
to me that looks like there's at
least a handful of inches Brian
might have been talking about.
Just the parking lot where
it could have been plowed.
Temperature 33 degrees.
That's going to hold steady around
freezing throughout the day.
Here's some snow.
Roadside, US 30, the Rainier summit.
And I got one more.
And here's Lees camp.
This is Hwy.
6, the one that goes into a Tillamook,
and that's a decent snow all the way down.
To just under 600 feet.
So again, on average today,
the sticking snow level is going
to be about 500.
Here's our futurecast movie.
Like the radar showed you,
the green is rain. Now this does
show the blue white tones as snow.
11:30 this morning.
It's just kind of show kind of a mix of
rain and snow showers during the day today,
not a lot of total precipitation.
But again, with temperatures
well up into the 30s,
nothing is going to stick unless
you're up in elevation a little bit.
Now this evening that changes,
temperatures will start to go down.
So I mean, if we're in the 20s.
Any snow shower activity overnight
is obviously gonna stick right here.
We are two in the morning,
but it will be scattered stuff and
I really feel like it's possible
that with the east winds coming
out of the gorge that Portland
may only see simple flurries,
meaning not ever enough to cover the ground.
There's a low pressure system
that's building offshore.
It's going to be dropping South and
that may fuel the heavier snow showers.
It could produce the dusting to an
inch or so in the mid to South Valley
during the day tomorrow that E wind
finally wins out the entire area.
One low drops to the South.
We see the precipitation chances
completely end and we'll actually get
into some clearing going into the evening.
Here we are. Thursday at 6:00 PM.
You wake up Friday morning.
I think it's going to be a deep blue,
marvelous sky, but it will be cold.
All right, temperatures.
Let's talk about that.
So up to around 40 or so in the
mid valley today.
Overnight lows in the 20s.
There you go. What?
Mix of snow showers, scattered dustings
tonight winds S turning to the northeast.
5 to 15 mph.
Southwest Washington.
Here you go. Upper 30s.
This gives long views.
17 tonight wow.
Battleground 19 Vancouver 20 these are
near record low temperatures for this day.
In fact,
I haven't looked at the records tonight.
They may in fact be records mix of
snow showers during the day today
I think it's going to be mainly
flurries in this region tonight.
Winds becoming E 5 to 25 miles per
and eventually stronger near the
Columbia River out near the gorge.
Here come the other numbers on our
weather map at 4:30 this afternoon it's
mostly light snow showers and sun breaks.
Central and Eastern Oregon
temperatures around freezing for high.
And there you see the daytime numbers
around 40 here on the West side.
To show the gorge in the mid
30s during the day today.
Alright,
so we go 34 to 39 today in the Rose City.
Tomorrow by the way, not only drying,
but the east winds will be 15
to 30 for most of us tomorrow.
And out near the gorge gusts to 45.
That's going to be a really cold
wind chill throughout the entire day.
24 in the morning,
32 in the afternoon, clear on Friday.
East winds not as strong but
still producing a chill.
The actual air temperature 20.
Now if you live in a spot where
you don't get much E wind,
you're kind of blocked from
that particular wind direction.
Friday morning you could be more like 16,
even 15 degrees. That's cold.
38 in the afternoon.
Saturday could start off clear, 24 or so.
Some of you back then about 20.
Clouds increased somewhat during the day,
but as I've been saying, we stay dry.
And then Saturday, overnight Sunday,
where are we going to be if the
clouds come in soon enough?
Saturday afternoon evening that
would hold us above freezing
with the southwest to West wind,
and the Precip would come in as rain for
the main Portland metropolitan area,
with the front Sunday morning
getting up to 44.
But if it's still clear when we
start the evening hours on Saturday,
then we'll be watching temperatures
like a hawk and maybe there will
be some potential icy weather
before it goes to all rain.
And then I've got just rain at times
on Monday and Tuesday right now.
Lots to talk about, lots of headlines.
But maybe where you are the big
stories is going to be getting colder.
For now,
I'm meteorologist Rod Hill
this KGW 8 plus weather update.