EDITOR’S NOTE: With hourly emergency alerts since yesterday evening July 29, 2025 at about 6pm, the Tsunami Advisory was cancelled at about 11am today, July 30, 2025. The Pioneer’s Gordon McCraw provides…
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GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 7/28/25: Summer pattern continues to bring fair, dry, and mild conditions to coast
OIOpublisher By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Well, the satellite picture tells the tale today. The predominate upper level feature, clearly visible in the satellite picture is a large…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 7/21/25: Summer continues, warmer first half of week, average temperatures rest of week, weekend
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer We had a weak upper level disturbance move through overnight that did little except increase the cloudiness that persisted most of today. It…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 7/14/25: Little Cooler Today, then Warmer Temperatures Return
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Well Tillamook, it looks like your string of afternoon temperatures hitting 70 or above comes to an end today. The ridge that gave…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 7/7/25: Summer pattern continues…more fair, dry and mild days this week!
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer We saw a typical summer pattern over the holiday weekend with the marine layer moving in overnight but burning off leaving sunny, mild…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE: Mother Nature Pushes Pause on Summer Weather Here
Even though the official start of summer was this past Friday, it kinda looks like Mother Nature is holding off on flipping the switch, at least for now. Over the weekend, we…
GORDON’S WEEKEND WEATHER UPDATE 6/20/25: First Day of Summer – Rain with more rain through weekend
Hello Tillamook, it is looking like we are going to see some measurable precipitation moving in by tomorrow with the threat persisting through the weekend. There is a low pressure area up…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 5/12/25: Showery Pattern Continues Through Week
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer A broad low pressure area continues to bring some mainly light showers up across the area again today. Just how much rain you…
GORDON’S WEEKEND WEATHER UPDATE: Some Sun Through Saturday, Rain Returns for Sunday, Mother’s Day
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer There was a weak system that moved across yesterday that did little other than to bring us some clouds and cooler temperatures with…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 5/5/25: Stuck in Spring Pattern, Some Sunny Days, Possibility of Shower Mid-week
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer We saw a little light rain over the weekend, then the ridge of high pressure returned bringing fair skies that led to some…