I cannot believe this shot. You're looking at feet of water racing through a street in downtown Salem on Thursday night January 19, 2011. This was the overflow of Mill Creek and it's created something you could go whitewater rafting on. The water was racing into a parking garage. I home nobody … [Read more...]
Weather On The Other Side Of The World Impacts The Pacific Northwest
What in the world could a picture of a stranded kangaroo have to do with the Northwestern U.S.? More than most of us realize. More than I realized until visiting with another dad at a recent kids birthday party. He's a lumber broker and he's seeing first hand how the 50 years floods in Australia … [Read more...]
Like a Hurricane on Mt. Hood
"Huge logs are floating past and we can hear what sounds like thunder but are the boulders being pushed by the rushing water."That's what Michele Veenker wrote when she sent this video of the normally tranquil Sandy River. The river runs down the slopes of Mt. Hood. Downriver, near the town of … [Read more...]
Scientists Will Fly Through Pineapple Express Storm That’s Headed To The Northwest
Only a few people on earth have a job like this. Your 'day at the office' means hopping on a jet where you and your crew aim for storms and fly right through them. You know before anyone else in the world what that storm is actually doing and the punch it will have when it reaches … [Read more...]
Winter Weather Trends Appearing For The Northwest
"It's always somethin'..." Do you know someone who makes that comment about situations they come across? Well, in weather it IS always somethin' with each new season. It seems to me the La Nina winter of 2010-2011 is letting us in on what that somethin' is going to be! You've probably … [Read more...]
Southwest Flooding, Record Rain, Wet Weather For Entire Western U.S.
For Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Diego and even Palm Springs it's been a December to remember because of record rain and at times, flooding. The opposite of what we expect in a solid La Nina year This time the southwestern U.S. was hardest hit. … [Read more...]