Turbulent temperatures remain around Portland

Añadido: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]It's a reminder, hey, these can pop up.

[00:00:02]There's one right there, and it's growing pretty quickly.

[00:00:04]>> They definitely can. And officially underway with fire season for the central eastern sections of our state.

[00:00:10]Now, we just wait for it to trickle its way into western Oregon and southwest Washington. So, our fire threat right now relatively at the low levels. So, it goes to show you even with lower chances, fires can still burn and get out of control quite rapidly as we turn our dials back up to that moderate level, especially for these central and southeastern sections of our state due to the lightning activity that poses a bit of a threat over the next several days. Right now though, temperatures on the cooler side for the western half of our state. 67 degrees is where we reside out towards PDX as those clouds are starting to break down anywhere from the coast to the high terrain of the Cascades. All after daytime highs managed to get back up into the upper 60s. 71 degrees that's where we should be sitting for this time of year. But you'll even notice out towards the east feeling the cool down as Bend has only made it up into the upper 50s. So that too hopefully giving the upper hand to a lot of the fire crews battling any blazes that may start as the drier skies are starting to dry out across western Oregon and southwest Washington. After our rain gauges filled up to just a couple of hundths of an inch just shortly after the midnight hour. Just about the same found out along the coastline as we still hold on to a bit of a rain deficit for the month of May.

[00:01:18]Down by nearly an inch and a half or so.

[00:01:21]Month of May only bringing us a little bit more than a half inch and our water year. So taking us all the way back to October 1st of 2025 already seeing that surplus shrink to now less than a half of an inch. So, it comes as no surprise that the persistent drought stays overhead as extreme conditions still reside through the central sections of the state of Oregon. All in part to a low pressure system that brought us the cooler weather. It's going to separate itself from the main flow of the jester.

[00:01:50]And that's going to allow for slightly warmer temperatures to creep their way back in western Oregon and southwest Washington. Although, it will be shortlived as we prepare for the next trough of low pressure to sweep its way through our area. So, if the pressure swings impact the way your knees might feel like it does mine, it's going to be Wednesday into Thursday that we see lower pressure return to our area before things start to improve with more high pressure, drier, sunnier, and warmer temperatures on the horizon. As our futurecast shows, those clouds mixing in and out of our area. There's some of that lightning activity we could potentially see by Wednesday afternoon and evening. just throwing clouds our direction by Thursday as we stay on the dry side here for the western half of our state. There's a rumble or two of possibility tomorrow. Marginal risk in the dark green shaded area. That's where we could potentially see larger hail, damaging winds, and also frequent lightning. As a marginal risk is about a one out of five potential to see severe thunderstorm activity. But our rain gauges relatively on the dry side with the exception of the Cascades and points east nearing about threequarters of an inch to a full inch as snow levels fall back to about 4,500 feet. But no real available moisture to put anything down on Mount Hood. 50° that's where we fall to tonight as the kiddos head off to school tomorrow. Low 50s rebounding into the mid70s, low 80s for us. And that's where those winds will start to become gusty by the afternoon hours. closing in at nearly 20 to 25 mph. As our 7-day forecast shows some turbulent temperatures ahead, upper 60s, a few rain showers Friday, then drier, sunnier skies, and summerlike heat just in time for June 1st, which arrives on Monday.

[00:03:26]>> Oh, May wrapping up soon. All right, hard to >> believe it.

[00:03:29]>> All right, thanks Josh. Hey, we'll be right back after this