by Praise | Jun 28, 2026 | June 2026, Weather
ATMOSPHERIC SUMMARY Long-term forecasting is very challenging in the best of times. But this El Niño is now on track to become the world’s strongest on record, sending quite an enormous amount of thermal and kinetic energy across the eastern Pacific and...
by Praise | May 30, 2026 | May 2026, Weather
4-WEEK FORECAST • (100 hPa Wave-1 Heights) A persistent stratospheric polar vortex core has been getting disrupted since May 17–18, causing cold air to channel south through the Bering Sea, then southeast directly towards Oregon. • (Coastal Northwest Sea...
by Praise | Mar 28, 2026 | March 2026, Weather
QUICK SUMMARY Temperatures will begin to drop this weekend. A strong atmospheric river arrives Tuesday night, March 31. Every other night this coming week could reach 29–38°, with patchy fog and frost on some nights. The first half of April will probably be...
by Praise | Feb 21, 2026 | February 2026, Weather
FEBRUARY WEATHER FORECAST ATMOSPHERIC SUMMARY With Valentine’s Day still on my mind, I woke up before dawn last Wednesday as the outside temperature dropped below 30°, curled up in a tight ball—evidence of the wintry cold snap I sketched out last month. I...
by Praise | Jan 25, 2026 | January 2026, Weather
FOUR-WEEK SUMMARY An ongoing, tropical, westerly wind burst (WWB) and subsequent rapid advance of the tropical Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) should begin to enhance precipitation potential (to some degree) across western Oregon within the next two weeks. The state...
