By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Today’s weather picture has a large upper level low pressure area spinning around in the eastern Pacific, northwest of Vancouver Island, with its…
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GORDON’S EXTRA WEEKEND UPDATE 8/14/25: “Atmospheric River” Means Real Rain for Tillamook County Tomorrow Friday, Aug. 15
OIOpublisher By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer You may have been hearing rumblings of an “Atmospheric River” event being forecasted to strike the Pacific Northwest tomorrow. Well, it does…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 8/11/25: Summer Heat, Cool Down & Rain Coming …
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer As was promised, the high pressure ridge gave the region some hot temperatures yesterday with the Tillamook Airport topping off at 82 degrees…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ADVISORY EXTENDED: Heat Advisory from today Sunday Aug. 10 until 10:00PM Tuesday Aug. 12
* WHAT…Temperatures as high as 93 to 98 degrees expected, coupled with mild overnight low temperatures of 60 to 67 degrees. * WHERE…North and Central Coast Range Valleys of Oregon, Lower Columbia…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ADVISORY: Heat Advisory from Noon Sunday Aug. 10 until 11:00PM Monday Aug. 11
* WHAT…Temperatures up to 93 to 98 expected coupled with mild overnight low temperatures of 60 to 67 degrees. * WHERE…North and Central Coast Range Valleys of Oregon, Willapa and Wahkiakum Lowlands,…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 8/4/25: What? Chance of showers Tuesday night through Wednesday, then things heat up again
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer A large low pressure area that is still spinning up in the Gulf of Alaska continues to give us an onshore flow. Adding…
GORDON’S SPECIAL TSUNAMI EDITION 7/30/25: Let’s Compare – 2011 Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami & 2025 Russian Earthquake/Tsunami
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…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 7/28/25: Summer pattern continues to bring fair, dry, and mild conditions to coast
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 upper…
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…