KGW Forecast: 5 p.m., Tuesday April 28, 2026

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]take you outside right now. It is clearing, the sky is clearing here in Portland or Explorer Tualatin Valley Sky Cam at the Reserve Golf Course showing the sunshine breaking through and that's helped the temperature climb to 60 out in Washington County. Meanwhile, at the coast, it's clearing off big time.

[00:00:14]Seaside showing the sunshine. Still chilly with the onshore flow. It's not super strong, but it is onshore being that cooler ocean air into the immediate coast. Okay, we made 60 today. That's still below average by 5°, but it's warmer than yesterday. Scappoose 58, 62 in Aurora. Uh 58 in Hood River, 62 in The Dalles, Bend was 64 and Medford leading the pack at 73 for the hot spot in Oregon this afternoon. Now, the cool area in Oregon tomorrow morning will be the Columbia River Gorge, specifically the Hood River Valley and and really the upper Hood River Valley from Odell up to Parkdale, but other parts of the Gorge may get cold enough tonight down to say 35 36 for frost to form. So, be aware of that if you've got your garden out already. Okay, here's what it looked like today. We had the green layer in the valleys, then we had this band of high clouds drift on over the top of it.

[00:01:03]That is now clearing out and with that clearing away, it's helping the low clouds to break up even more because even though it's late in the day now, we're getting at least a little bit of sunshine working on those. Now, what you see on Doppler radar here is mainly a loft. I haven't seen any reports of rain reaching the ground in Oregon today, nor will it because high pressure is building in strongly as we see these minor impulses that have been dropping down in a northerly flow move out. And so, that's going to set the stage for a nice midweek warming trend. In fact, we could end up seeing 80° on Thursday.

[00:01:35]I'll show you why we may not, but it's a possibility. Tomorrow though, we'll be in the low 70s, so a good 12° warmer than today with a clear sky, mainly clear all day long. This is the reason why we may not reach 80 on Thursday because of these scattered high clouds that come on through. And the models have been pretty persistent in bringing this over us, so I'm I'm buying that that will actually happen. That would just shave a couple degrees off of our high temperature. We still will be seeing a warmer air mass build in, so we'll be warmer on Thursday than Wednesday. Then on Friday, cools off a bit as we see onshore flow return a little bit as low pressure begins to form along the coast and move on down the coast. But once that clears us, this is the the thing about this that is really the most interesting is that once it moves to the south, we get easterly flow aloft around it and that brings us very warm weather beginning on Saturday, but really ramping up on Sunday and next week, too. In fact, I don't see any rain coming our way for quite a while and we've got 80s in the forecast for at least one day and possibly more. Outside in Portland right now, there we go. The blue sky is taking over as the clouds clear. 59° right now. Again, a little late in the day to warm up more than about 60, but again, a nice afternoon and evening. Freezing level is up at 7,800 ft. On the Oregon coast tomorrow, it's going to be a beauty. Mostly sunny and warmer as you make the low 60s and lows even in the coastal valleys down to the upper 30s, but not quite cold enough to frost there. In the Willamette Valley, we'll drop 40° range, 37 in Corvallis, high 69, 70 in McMinnville.

[00:03:05]So again, a nice warm up with warmer weather coming at us for tomorrow and more so on Thursday. In the Gorge, light west winds, cold morning with frost as we talked about, down to 38 in Hood River, but the surrounding areas may drop to 36 or 35, which is cold enough for frost, but highs make the 70s after that frosty morning. And for Portland, sunny and warmer tomorrow, we climb up to 72. We go 79 on Thursday. 72 on Friday and then we begin to warm up on Saturday to 78 and Sunday is 88. Wow, big warm up. Should only be that warm for one day and that's not quite the record for the date, missing it by one, but still pretty amazing. Where did that come from? East wind? Is that what's going on there?

[00:03:44]>> East wind, just a warm air mass. Okay.

[00:03:46]>> Yeah. Okay, looking forward to it.

[00:03:48]Thanks, Matt.