Let's move on to some heat.
OK, so 90 degree heat at PDX
in May 3 is the most all time
1987 today will be day #3,
also our third consecutive tomorrow,
high confidence that it will be day #4.
And when you see my 7 day forecast,
you're going to begin wondering
like is this July or May?
And that is a reasonable question
and I'll show you that in a second.
Here's a look at some of the
records that were set or tied yesterday.
PDX93 that was a record 93 in Vancouver
breaks the old record of 91 at Pearson
set back in 1939. Hillsborough,
Troutdale and Astoria all Tide records.
Salem was one off the record for yesterday.
Salem is likely to hit the record high today.
So another hot forecast for us West of
the Cascades Heat advisory in effect again
today for Western Oregon and Washington
through this evening. I mean, it is.
We were off on a launchpad this morning.
It's 67 at the airport.
It's 72 in King City at 7:15 in the morning.
The average high for May
15th in Portland is 69.
It's already 72 in King City.
And the sun's only been up an
hour and a half, right?
It's 72 in Tillamook.
It's 73 in Florence.
Very warm down,
sloping wind coming off the Cascades.
When you take air from higher altitudes
and you bring it down the mountains,
you can press it.
You add some extra heating so
we get the full impact of that
strong May sunshine and the added
little downslope effect that will
help juice the temperatures up.
Another degree or two and you
can see the east wind being felt
right now at the Oregon coast.
This is the live look from the
Chinook Winds Casino Resort,
Cameron, Lincoln City.
Cascade head off in the distance,
our camera bopping around in the
breeze a little bit in the Breakers,
the east wind kind of knocking
the top off of the Breakers there.
So we've got it there at the beach.
We've got it up in the Cascades as well.
The evergreens up at Timberline Rocket
in the breeze in a really cool cloud
cap with that east to West motion
of the air up and over Mount Hoods.
We're getting a little cloud cap out there.
The the,
the what you can see there is
the is the depth.
And width of this westerly flow,
it is not confined to the
Columbia River Gorge.
It's for all of us West of the Cascades.
And Futurecast has those E wind gusts
on the order of 20 to 30 all the way
to the Oregon coast throughout the day today.
So again,
that will help accentuate the heat
we take this afternoon before that
wind finally subsides at the beach.
Record temperatures again in the
works for today, 8889,
is the record in that story.
A real good bet.
We're close to that.
Which you see Tillamooks temperature.
Our modeling is showing temperatures
in the 90s in Tillamook today and
I believe it 90 in Cascade Locks,
91 of the Dallas E Breeze through the
gorge 15 to 25 as we hop over the Cascades.
Central and Eastern Oregon will actually
enjoy a much more pleasant day I dare say.
And 90s are a little hot I think,
especially in May for most of us.
How about 80 in Prineville
with sunshine will be in
the 70s and 80s outdoors
Pendleton and Baker City as well.
Meanwhile, the I5 quarter is sizzling.
And check out Tillamook 97
degrees this afternoon is what
Futurecast shows us 94 Portland 95,
Longview 94 sale and those would all
be new record highs for May 14th.
Also what's going on in Burns?
Why is it only 68 there late this afternoon?
Let me show you.
Here's a look at the satellite radar
loop in this storm system that we've
been watching the last couple of days.
Pinwheeling itself westward
will continue to do so today,
so by late this afternoon.
There's the chance that Eastern Oregon sees
or hears a rumble of Thunder later today.
That system continues
working its way westward.
So we'll probably have some
cloud debris tomorrow morning
and then tomorrow afternoon.
Our modeling does suggest some thunderstorms
popping over the Willamette Valley.
In fact,
there's one right over downtown Portland.
The point is that could happen
anywhere in the I5 quarter tomorrow
and how early that cloud cover and
thunderstorm development happens.
Will impact whether or not we get to 90
again tomorrow or maybe just miss out.
If it doesn't happen until late in the day,
we could easily be 9293 and
that's why I put the record
up there. We come down just a little
bit Tuesday, but it's in the air.
Mass really isn't changing much
over the next couple of days.
So we're still going to be
hot upper 80s to about 90.
Is is the mid range of the forecast
models here gone through late in the week,
what a weekend and what a week ahead.
All right. Thanks Chris very much.