The Portland office of the National Weather Service issued a Fire Weather Watch for much of the Willamette Valley and Portland area over concerns of a possible thunderstorm starting Tuesday afternoon.
"Confidence is increasing that this potentially historic heatwave will last several days," the NWS said. Inside: tips on staying cool and how we'll be covering this ongoing heat wave over the next few days.
A county-wide burn ban began Monday morning, just hours after lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in far west Washington County entered fire season.
Starting Thursday afternoon, Independence Day festivities will be under the pall of an Excessive Heat Watch, which extends through Sunday evening as triple digit temperatures loom in the forecast.
Over the last few days, a series of coronal mass ejections (CME) have erupted from the Sun, and are likely to merge and reach Earth starting Friday or Saturday, said the Space Weather Prediction Center. The aurora could be visible as far south as northern California.
Farms and small businesses in Washington County that suffered damage as a result of this year's winter weather storm in January have options to seek funding to aid in their recovery.
For residents in the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District, backyard burning opens Friday, March 1. The season will last through June 15, barring any emergency burn bans and daily closures due to low air quality.
A Winter Weather Advisory for higher elevations in the northern Coast Range issued by the Portland office of the National Weather Service goes into effect at 10 p.m. Wednesday night due to high winds and in higher elevation areas, snow.
It's snowing again at higher elevations in western Washington County, and the Portland office of the National Weather Service issued a 'Winter Weather Advisory' for Wednesday starting at 8 p.m. and extending to 4 p.m. Thursday.
