Weather update for oregon

After six consecutive days of rain, Portlanders will be treated to a dry weekend. A year-old man never returned after leaving his residence to move his car to higher ground on Friday morning west of Olympia in Cosmopolis, according to Grays Harbor Undersheriff Brad Johansson. This interactive map will show the predicted snowfall at all ski resorts in Oregon. A look at some of the best deals on top-rated rain jackets, outerwear and warm wool socks and accessories to help you survive what will be a long and cold winter here in the Pacific Northwest.

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Scattered rain showers keep Portland damp through Tuesday; mild high of 54 Tuesday may be damp, but Wednesday is looking mostly dry and warm with highs in the mid 50s. Flooding persists after Pacific Northwest storms Flooding coursed over roads, inundated farmland and curtailed access to a Native American reservation in Washington state on Sunday as the Pacific Northwest slowly recovered from a series of storms that have engulfed the region with rain and snow.

We did have somewhat cooler weather in the winter, which is why this year didn't end up as the hottest. Grim 'new normal'? A late December drenching allowed Oregon to make up a lot of ground in precipitation totals, finishing with a statewide average of The Oregon Coast was actually wetter than normal in some areas and about normal temperature wise.

The Willamette Valley ended the year slightly on the dry side — except in Salem — while towns east of the Cascades saw some of their driest years on record. It's not clear if this is just a rough couple of years or becoming a normal cycle. The local-scale impacts of climate change are the hardest ones to resolve. Record-setting heat in the Willamette Valley Oregon's valley cities generally mirrored statewide trends when it came to heat. Many valley cities, including Salem, saw their hottest summer on record and hottest temperature ever recorded, with Salem hitting degrees on June More: Salem and Oregon set records for hottest summer in recorded history.

Those extreme highs fueled Portland and Eugene to the second-warmest years on record, at All three were about 2. Out on the Coast, Astoria was exactly normal at Medford, in southern Oregon, recorded an average temperature of Willamette Valley cities Portland and Salem were right about normal in terms of rainfall. Portland recorded Eugene was drier with On the Coast, Astora recorded East of the Cascades, Pendleton 9. Oregon's longstanding drought is based on two years of below average precipitation, a summer that saw almost no rain and above normal temperatures that sapped moisture from the soil.