By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer The area saw some showers this morning, and I had some folks reporting a lot of lightning as a disturbance, that was once…
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GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/24/23 – Smoke Returns, Possible Showers, Thundershowers
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer A case of dueling low pressure areas today. There is the one that moved across to the north yesterday that continues to push…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/23/23
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer A weak low pressure area moved inland to our north along the Oregon/Canada border and brought little in the way of rain. The…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/22/23 – What was that? Sprinkles of Rain Today, Tonight
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Well, a few areas of the north coast saw some light rain this morning as a weak trough came ashore. The parent low…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/21/23 – Hilary Passing East of Cascades
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Well yesterday, Sunday August 20th, was certainly a hazy, smoky day across the area with the valley reaching unhealthy air quality levels. All…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/18/23 – Return to “Normal”, Hurricane in Forecast for Southern California Next Week
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer I am happy to report that the weather map has calmed down considerably. The only thing on the board is a Red Flag…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/17/23
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer The temperatures in the valley managed to hit the triple digits again yesterday, breaking some more records, Eugene and Troutdale hit 105, Salem…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/16/23
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Yesterday was a warm one for many, again! Astoria was 79 and Tillamook was 84. There were many more records set or tied…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather – 8/15/23 … Whew! Coastal cooling kicks in …
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Well, yep, yesterday was a hot one. Tillamook got up to 97, Astoria was 95, Portland hit a record 108, Salem made it…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather – 8/14/23 – It’s Hot; Cooling coming to coast …
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Today was another scorcher as the strong upper level ridge of high pressure continues to dominate our weather. Thankfully, though it might be…