Summer heat builds around Portland

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[00:00:00]You know, the Columbia River Gorge, one of my favorite places to go hiking. Not that I hike all the time, but when I do, I like to go out there to do it. Today would have been a good day. Today, tomorrow, really all week long is going to be prime time to get out and about and enjoy Mother Nature here in our own backyard. A lot of beautiful spots to be seen as the mud, you might run into it if you go up in elevation after the snow showers we saw over the weekend continue to melt away, but all of us preparing for a bit of a warming trend here across the Pacific Northwest for the rest of this week. It's the nice iris flowers are in full bloom, a nice pop of color all up and down the South Waterfront Park Garden area from earlier today soaking up that sunshine as we prepare for much of the same moving our way through the next several days. Just make sure that allergy medication is close to hand because pollen counts are on the rise once again back up to the moderate to the high levels by Thursday and Friday and it's only expected to get worse from there as the end of May into June really starts to spark up the grass pollen as we move our way closer to the summer season. All of our current temperatures are hovering in towards the upper 60s, low 70s, and even a few mid-70s for us out towards Beaverton and Bethany as we are enjoying those mostly sunny skies across our area. A few more clouds in the mix out towards the Portland area and just the same out towards the state capital in Salem as those clouds, they will become a little bit more widespread working our way through the rest of the night tonight as a few of those rumblers are fading into nothing out along I-84 just to the north and the east of The Dalles. A much different picture as opposed to our friends through the Central Plains where the squall line of severe thunderstorms continues to track its way to the east.

[00:01:37]Not only severe thunderstorm warnings, but tornado warnings stretching all the way from Kansas up into Missouri, parts of Nebraska, and into Iowa for our Monday evening as we hold on to about now and enhanced risk so tapered back slightly for us this evening. That's a three out of five chance of seeing things like damaging winds, large hail, and of course the threat of tornadoes as that potential becomes less but a little more widespread stretching from the Lone Star State up into Upstate New York and much of New England as we move our way into tomorrow morning. All part of a low pressure system that actually brought us the cool down and also the wet weather over the weekend now tracking its way further off to the east as we're preparing for this ridge of high pressure to take shape. That's going to continue our warming and drying trend as we start to push our way into the rest of this week. So, we'll time everything out here with our future cast. There's the increasing clouds to start off the day with mostly cloudy conditions. That cloud coverage it will start to dissipate. The sunshine allowing us to warm back up into the 60s and 70s in many cases as we start the day off with Wednesday. A few lesser clouds and that's really going to start to see the peak of the heat return. As rain gauges over the next 48 hours stay relatively on the dry side. Tonight, we do just the same falling back to about 47 for this afternoon highs. Tomorrow for election day, low 70s for the I-5 corridor, 50s, 60s for the coast, and 60s and 70s out towards the east as we prepare for our Memorial Day weekend. Just days away now as we prepare for relatively dry, calm, and quiet conditions. Again, our one chance of picking up on a few stray light rain showers is on Memorial Day Monday, but really is slim pickings as it's still a week or so out as we prepare for the peak of the heat Thursday with a high of 83.

[00:03:22]>> Yeah, I know it's a week away, [music] but you know people have been looking at that closely.

[00:03:26]>> start to summer.

[00:03:27]>> Yeah. Sure is. All right, we'll be right back.