Friday, March 24, 2023 Yesterday’s front left behind an upper level trough of low pressure that gave the area some colder, unstable air which delivered some brief heavy showers with small hail, some mountain snow, and even a thunderstorm or two. Today it looked like the snow level started out at 1000’ but in the heavy showers, snow was seen…
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GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/23/23 – Winter Storm Warnings for the Weekend – Snow in Coast Range
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Thursday, March 23, 2023 We had a cold front go through the area today that was the start of the promised weather change. Behind the front, we can expect some scattered showers that, thanks to a parked cold upper level trough of low pressure, will persist through the weekend then another…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/22/23 – Winter Storm Warning for Travel over Coast Range, Cascades through Weekend
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 We saw increasing clouds today ahead of an approaching disturbance that increased the onshore flow and gave us a slight chance of showers. The disturbance will move across the area tonight giving us an increased chance of showers and starts to bring the snow level down, falling from 3700’ down to near 2300’. It also pushes…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/21/23 – The “S” word in the forecast, and it’s not Spring …
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Tuesday, March 21, 2023 A foggy, misty start of the day was followed by a mild sunny day with a weak ridge of high pressure over the area, which will be followed by a mostly clear, cool night tonight with the winds becoming northerly 5-10, the low drops to near 39….
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/20/23 – It might be “Spring”, but Winter weather continues later this week
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Monday, March 20, 2023 We had a few showers moving across today thanks to a weak low pressure area moving up the coast, and we’ll see a few more tonight, then diminish a little before midnight. We could also see some patchy fog before some winds kick in around midnight, becoming…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/17/23; Spring Arrives on Monday March 20th
Friday, March 17, 2023 It was chilly again this morning, as low as 26, well, the windchill anyway, the actual surface temperature was in the low 30s. The ridge was not quite as strong this morning but did build again in the afternoon even though we saw some high clouds moving in from the west, associated with a trough of…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/16/23; Weather Stats from February & Looking Ahead to April
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Thursday, March 16, 2023 A nice day today with high pressure dominating the pattern though it was a little chilly this morning with the low hitting 30 degrees which gave us some patchy morning frost. With lots of sunshine though we were able to climb into the upper 50s to near…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/15/23 – A Couple Sunny Days …
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 A weak front dropped southeastward thru the region this morning bringing some light rain as it passed thru and dropped some more snow near the summit. After that, conditions improved for the day as high pressure built in and continues to give us a mostly clear night with light winds, which all lead to a low…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/14/23
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 The satellite picture tells the weather story. A large and wet low pressure area is moving across central California as they continue to see more rain and winds bringing catastrophic flooding to some areas, in addition to the damaging winds. Another low pressure area is seen off the coast of British Columbia moving southeastward towards the…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 3/13/23
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Monday, March 13, 2023 Well, the weak atmospheric river delivered to the north coastal areas between 1”-1.5” of rain which did push the rivers up some, but not significantly, unless you head down to the Southern Oregon coast. The associated cold front pushed across this morning and the snow levels that…
