Welcome back everybody.
Chris McGinnis is here and we are into
a heat wave weekend and you know it is,
it's going to be hot,
it's beautiful out though it is,
you know early in the morning.
One of the few perks of getting up as
early as we do this time of ther
it is the mornings can be beaut,
right? So we rolled on a time le
from our Solar Vineyard camera
catching the early morning sunrise of
the sun coming up over the Casc.
Of course you can see silhouettf
Mount Hood there in the distance and.
Wait for it. Wait for it.
Here it comes, about 1213 seconds and
you see the sun popping up ther.
Really, really pretty.
What you can't really tell from
that camera perspective and that
time lapse is just how that's te
precursor of a very warm day, r?
Let's take you up to Mount Hood.
This is from Oregon's
Veterans Home in the Dallas,
the East End of the gorge or ca.
They're showing brilliant blue y
over still a deep snowpack over
Mount Hood and last but not lea,
the Oregon Coast.
This has been a Moody camera this morning,
that the fog kind of playing gas
on us here, playing tricks on u.
Occasionally we can see Cascade
head off in the distance.
Not at this moment, but still.
Always one of the neat things
about the Oregon coast, right,
the moodiness of the fog in the
morning again in Lincoln City.
We'll switch gears now and
show you the temperatures.
We are warming.
We're 60 degrees at PDX58IN Troutdale,
Hillsboro in the upper 50s.
King City as well.
Bend is warmed into the upper 5.
Baker City started the morning in the 30s.
You're now pushing 50 quickly.
We'll see a nice warm up E the Cascades,
but the western half of the stae
is going to be the hot half over
the next couple of days with 90s
widespread in the forecast up ad
down the I5 quarter for that re.
Heat advisories in effect for
Western Washington and Western
Oregon today and tomorrow,
and in fact the heat
advisory for the Portland,
Vancouver metro area extends
into the evening on Monday.
The humidity levels are likely to creep
up and the temperatures may or y
not hold steady or dip a little.
But between the two,
it's still going to be a very warm day
on Monday for Portland and Vancouver.
All right, headed to the beach this weekend,
Sunny and warm.
Possibly some record warmth
there with highs in the mid 80s.
Astoria.
Pacific City and if the breeze
sets up just right in Newport,
you could be in the 80s today 9.
Cascade locks 93 in the Dallas
east winds 15 to 25.
The east breeze is already
beginning to pick up there as
it is in the Cascades as well.
Temperatures in Central
Oregon and Eastern Oregon,
a little more warm for this time of year,
but bearable, right.
I mean,
we're just not used to going into the 90s
here across Northwest Oregon this early.
And so I think the more comforte
forecast is for folks east of the Cascades.
The next couple of days,
Baker City gets to a lovely 7577 in Mitchell.
The Columbia Basin starts to get pretty warm,
but of course the I5 quarter
is the hot spot on this map
from Longview down to Eugene.
Temperatures in the 90s,
pretty much a slam dunk today wh
temperatures as high as 95 possible here.
The Portland,
Vancouver metro area,
by the way,
Portland has only hit 95 or hotr
a couple of times in May since
records have been kept at PDX se
1941. So. Some some rare air here with
the record heat in the forecast today,
tomorrow, the breeze begins to pick up today.
But I think we really start to
feel it tonight and tomorrow.
And as such, that's going to
keep our temperatures very warm.
We're going to be starting off tomorrow
morning in the mid 60s on Mother's Day,
So we'll have no problem getting
well into the 90s again.
Here's a look at the wind forec,
Futurecast pegs E wind gusts today on
the order 15 to 25 and those will likely
ratchet up a little bit through tomorrow.
All right.
So we talked about the weekend forecast.
I wanted to go a little
wider and show you this.
See that spinning storm system
out over the northern Plains,
through the Dakotas and into Minnesota?
A piece of that is actually goig
to break off and push westward,
westward with that system
and bring us a chance of some
thunderstorms beyond our weeken.
So you can see here sunny futurt
through the day tomorrow,
Sunny with maybe some shower chs
creeping into Eastern Oregon lan
the day tomorrow and then Monday as that
system continues pinwheeling westward.
Modeling does suggest widespread cascade
thunderstorms on Monday and wite
steering currents in the atmosp,
they could be coming right towards us on
Monday. So we'll keep our eyes on that.
That is the one hedge in our forecast
for the Monday temperature 90.
If those thunderstorms don't
come in until late in the day,
we could easily be 9293 would be
another record or tire record.
If they come in earlier, we stay in the 80s.
If they don't happen at all,
we're in the 90s. Yeah.
That 7 day forecast though is
looking like mid-july, right?
It really is. Yeah.
So if you're, you know,
vulnerable to the heat, be carel
out there the next few days for sure.
All right.
Thanks, Chris.