When the snow is falling on Sunday,
did you actually taste it?
Did you stick your tongue
out? I let them land,
you know, I went out there.
I brought the dog, Judy outside.
We just played in the snow.
That's so great.
Yeah, so much fun.
It was really pretty
and it did stick around
for all. The great thing was
the roads weren't too bad.
Even when the snow was falling
was mainly melting off.
I saw about an inch and
1/2 up in the West Hills.
So yeah, it's stuck around for a
little while and then throughout much
of the day today and it may get a
little crusty overnight tonight too.
Any leftover patches because with
the clear sky, temperatures are
going to fall really rapidly.
There is the reserve golf course.
It is 38 degrees, so we don't have
that far to go to get back down.
close to freezing kind of already
close to freezing, right?
And you know with a high of only 43 or 44,
it doesn't take much to cool
you off once the sun goes down
and you have a clear sky.
Pendleton never got out of the 20s,
nor did Baker City, Redmond,
Bend and Prineville all made the low 40s.
We had a couple of spots in
the 50s on the Oregon coast,
but it was really the temperatures
in the morning that mattered
because we were down below freezing.
I know it ice on the on the recycling and
garbage bins at my house this morning.
35 in Eugene,
Prineville dropped to 10 Rome,
Oregon 7 and it was 31 in Klamath Falls.
So very chilly now from about Ohh
just north of Salem southward.
They had a much gloomier day than
we did here in Portland.
The low clouds hung on Portland.
We cleared off.
You could see this fog bank or low
cloud bank north over Clark County
if you were in Portland today.
So they had a tough time clearing
out there too.
We had the gap largely because
we had a little bit of an E wind
drying us out just a bit.
Now tomorrow morning we're likely
going to have low clouds again
and there are some minor.
Disturbances in the north northwesterly
flow there's over us right now
that may spark or you know,
set off a little bit of drizzle.
The main core of yesterday's storm is
now over Northern California helping
to produce more snow in the Sierra Nevada.
So they're off to a great start
with their snowpack as are we well
above average here in the Northwest.
And that trend will continue in spite
of a couple of dry days on the way,
that being tomorrow and Wednesday.
But let's look at the modeling on this.
So clouds,
they stick around for a good part of the day.
Tomorrow I think we'll get a
few sun breaks in Portland.
Tuesday also looks dry,
but then tomorrow's Tuesday.
Wednesday looks dry,
but then Wednesday night you see
this next system out here coming in,
but that's more of your classic
Northwest winter or Fall System,
Valley rain and mountain snow.
Too much southerly wind to give us
any threat of valley snow with that one.
But the snow levels are going to stay low.
So we get the system coming in Thursday
out of the northwest yet again,
followed by another one Sunday,
and then it'll be interesting.
Next Monday or Tuesday.
Cool air in place, another little system.
Undercutting and if that happens to come
into the Oregon coast South of Portland,
that could produce some winter
weather for the valleys yet again.
But we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves,
way out in time on that one.
But the pattern will remain cool and it
will remain stormy in general and that's
really going to benefit the Cascades.
Now look at our snowfall forecast
through Thursday morning,
not much half an inch here and there,
but from Thursday morning until Friday night,
that's about 10 inches.
So good powder days.
At the end of the week and the
weekend we get even more snow.
So this should be a really great
weekend for skiing throughout all of
the ski areas here in the Northwest
as the snow continues to fly.
Kind of a cool looking scene in
downtown Portland with that cloud
band there and the city lights.
Well, Christmas Eve maybe 38 degrees,
I don't know.
That's a bit of a stretch,
but it looked nice.
38 degrees in Portland Right now,
mostly cloudy.
Some areas of drizzle on the
coast and in the valleys too.
We may get a few areas of
drizzle in the morning.
Low temperatures right around freezing,
so if that drizzle happens at the right time,
we could get a little bit
of icing from the drizzle.
Could be a little bit of freezing
drizzle tomorrow morning.
Probably not enough to impact driving,
but keep it in mind as you
head out in the morning.
Partly sunny in the Cascades.
Nice day up there.
Teens for lows at the ski areas,
mostly sunny above the
basin and valley fog and.
Southeastern Oregon.
Another cool day for the gorge.
Interestingly enough,
it's a West wind tomorrow that'll go easterly
as we go into Wednesday and Wednesday night.
And there may be some freezing
drizzle in the gorge tomorrow morning
with temperatures below freezing,
mostly cloudy,
and some breaks,
I think in Portland in the afternoon.
Lows generally just above freezing,
but close enough.
And we could get some
drills in the morning too.
So that potential for a
little freezing drizzle,
which is one of my least
favorite kinds of precipitation,
does exist for tomorrow morning.
I don't think it's a huge chance,
but it does exist.
Yeah, just something to be aware of,
and I agree, that's my least.
Favorite. It's just not fun.
No, not at all.
There's nothing inspiring about it.
Yeah, just man. Yeah. Alright.
Yeah. Yeah. Alright.
Thanks so much, Matt.