By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer A weak front went through early yesterday, then a ridge moved across giving us a sunny dry day today with highs in the…
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GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/7/23 – Warm, then Warmer … then Hot
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer We had a weak system push across this morning that just gave us some additional upper level cloudiness and an enhanced onshore flow…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/4/23
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer A look at the radar this morning brought a surprise to many east of the Coast Range as an upper level trough of…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/2/23
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Boy, the northeast Pacific has become a breeding ground for low pressure areas to develop with several of them spinning around, then some…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/2/23
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for Tillamook County Pioneer Thanks to the northeasterly flow, smoke from the wildfires is affecting the skies for much of Oregon except the northwestern part of the state….
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 8/1/23; Super Moons
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for Tillamook County Pioneer I know I sound like a stuck record but, not much is changing the next few days other than the ridge of high pressure…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 7/31/23 – The Week Ahead & Seasonal Forecasts for Aug-Oct
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer The synoptic (overall) weather pattern has not changed except for subtle shifts now and then during the past month. We still have low…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 7/28/23 – “Dog Days” of Summer Continue …
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer I continue to talk about the low pressure area west of British Columbia that is still forecast to drift south towards Vancouver Island…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 7/27/23 – More of the Same …
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer The marine clouds pushed up against the Coast Range this morning then burned back this afternoon, and with little change in the synoptic…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather 7/26/23 – Summer Continues!
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer The increased zonal flow gave us a cloudy, foggy start to the day, we also had some moisture in the dense fog that…