East winds help trap cold air into the Upper Hood River and Central Columbia River Gorge areas as a Pacific frontal system produced freezing rain with light ice accumulations.
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The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.
East winds help trap cold air into the Upper Hood River and Central Columbia River Gorge areas as a Pacific frontal system produced freezing rain with light ice accumulations.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 28, 8:13 PM PST, 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
813 PM PST TUE JAN 28 2014
.SYNOPSIS...A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TUE EVENING...
THEN A COLD FRONT WILL FOLLOW THROUGH EARLY WED. ONSHORE FLOW WILL
KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS INTO THURSDAY...AND A WEAK UPPER LOW MAY
BRING MORE SHOWERS FRIDAY. COOL BUT DRIER WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR
THE WEEKEND.
&&
.SHORT TERM...RADAR AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS HAVE SHOWN WIDESPREAD
RAIN THIS EVENING ACROSS NW OREGON AND SW WA AS A DEEP LAYER OF
MOISTURE IS LIFTED OVER A WARM FRONT. INCOMING AIRMASS ITSELF IS
QUITE MOIST...SHOWING ON SATELLITE A SUBTROPICAL CONNECTION WITH
PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ON THE ORDER OF 1.25 INCHES. STILL A LAYER
OF COLDER AIR STUCK IN THE UPPER HOOD RIVER VALLEY...YIELDING SOME
LIGHT FREEZING RAIN THERE. AS THE WARM FRONT WORKS INLAND THIS
EVENING...EXPECT TO SEE TEMPS WARM SOME OVERNIGHT BOTH IN THE HOOD
RIVER VALLEY AND IN THE VALLEYS W OF THE CASCADES. WILL NEED TO
MONITOR TEMPS IN THE UPPER HOOD RIVER VALLEY NEXT COUPLE HOURS
BEFORE DECIDING TO EITHER EXTEND OR LET THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
THERE EXPIRE.
REMAINDER OF SHORT TERM DISCUSSION UNCHANGED...
AS IS OFTEN THE CASE...THE UPPER HOOD RIVER VALLEY WILL WARM UP
AFTER THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AS FLOW TURNS ONSHORE
BEHIND THE FRONT WE WILL BE LOOKING AT A MORE TYPICAL ELEVATION
BASED SNOW EVENT...WITH SNOW LEVELS LOWERING THROUGH THE DAY. BY WED
EVENING SNOW LEVELS WILL BE NEAR OR BELOW THE CASCADE PASSES.
WESTERLY FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT WILL KEEP OROGRAPHIC SNOWS GOING FOR
THE HIGHER SKI RESORT ELEVATIONS WED AFTERNOON/EVENING...WITH 5-10
INCHES OF MUCH-NEEDED FRESH SNOW EXPECTED BY THURSDAY MORNING.
PASSES SHOULD JUST SEE A COUPLE INCHES WED NIGHT/THU MORNING.
FOR THE LOWLANDS...THE MAIN UPPER LOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM
WILL OPEN UP AND MOVE ONSHORE AS A SHORTWAVE WED NIGHT/THU...
ENHANCING SHOWER ACTIVITY. THE AIR MASS ALOFT APPEARS TO MODERATE
ENOUGH TO MITIGATE THE CHANCE OF THUNDER. ASIDE FROM A FEW LINGERING
SHOWERS THU NIGHT IT SHOULD BE DRY AND COOL...WITH OUTLYING VALLEYS
POSSIBLY FALLING BELOW FREEZING IF SKIES CLEAR ENOUGH. WILL NEED TO
KEEP AN EYE ON ANOTHER SYSTEM SET TO PUSH DOWN THE COAST IN THE COLD
AIR FRIDAY...BUT AT THIS POINT IT APPEARS LOW-LEVEL FLOW WILL BE TOO
SOUTHERLY FOR ANY LOW ELEVATION PRECIPITATION TYPE ISSUES. WEAGLE
.LONG TERM...NO CHANGES. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION FOLLOWS.
FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...IT APPEARS NORTHERLY FLOW BEHIND
FRIDAYS SYSTEM WILL DRY THE REGION OUT OVER THE WEEKEND. AN UPPER
LOW WILL HEAD TOWARD CALIFORNIA...WHILE A RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD OVER
THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC. THIS RIDGE SHOULD KEEP THE FORECAST AREA DRY
MOST OF THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT IT IS WEAKER THAN THE
MAJOR BLOCKING RIDGE WE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THE PAST COUPLE
WEEKS. WEAGLE
&&
.AVIATION...RAIN CONTINUES TO SPREAD ONSHORE AS A WARM FRONT LIFTS
ACROSS THE REGION. PREDOMINANTLY MVFR CONDITIONS PERSIST...EXCEPT
IFR/LIFR CONDITIONS ARE DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY
THIS AFTERNOON. NOT EXPECTING MUCH IMPROVEMENT OVERNIGHT...AS
INCREASING MOISTURE WILL ALLOW WIDESPREAD MVFR AND IFR CONDITIONS.
EAST WINDS LINGER THROUGH AT LEAST 14Z WED MORNING...THEN EXPECT
ONSHORE FLOW TO PREVAIL.
KPDX AND APPROACHES...MVFR CIGS AROUND 2500-3500 FT WILL LOWER TO
LOW END MVFR/HIGH END IFR CONDITIONS...WITH CIGS DROPPING TO 1000
TO 1500 FT AFTER 03Z WED. EASTERLY WINDS CONTINUE TONIGHT...WITH
STRONGEST GUSTS FELT NEAR EASTERN APPROACHES. /27
&&
.MARINE...OVERALL MODELS ARE SHOWING THE MAIN ONSET OF GUSTY S-SW
WINDS REACHING THE COASTAL WATERS CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...SO
HAVE DELAYED THE TIMING FOR THE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WINDS TO
LATER THIS EVENING. AS THE WEAK FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THE WATERS
TONIGHT...EXPECT WINDS TO INCREASE WITH GUSTS 25-30 KT LIKELY. THE
NEXT SYSTEM ARRIVES MIDDAY WEDNESDAY...BRINGING ANOTHER BATCH OF
GUSTY SW WINDS. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW STRONGER WIND GUSTS...SO A
FEW GUSTS NEAR 35 KT REMAIN POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER THE OUTER WATERS.
SEAS CURRENTLY AT 12 FT THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT SEAS TO BRIEFLY
DROP BELOW 10 FT THIS EVENING...BUT A COUPLE OF INCOMING 6 TO 9 FT
SOUTHWESTERLY AND WESTERLY SWELL TRAINS WILL KEEP COMBINED SEAS
NEAR 10-11 FT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. AT WHICH POINT...COMBINED
SEAS SHOULD BEGIN A GRADUAL DECLINE TOWARDS 5 FT AS A WEAK LOW
PRESSURE DROPS SOUTHWESTWARD OFFSHORE LATE IN THE WEEK. RATHER
BENIGN CONDITIONS ARE IN STORE FOR LATE IN THE WEEK AS HIGH
PRESSURE BEGINS TO REBUILD. /NEUMAN/27
&&
.PQR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OR...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING FOR UPPER
HOOD RIVER VALLEY.
WA...NONE.
PZ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WINDS FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 PM
PST WEDNESDAY FOR COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER TO
FLORENCE OUT 60 NM.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR HAZARDOUS SEAS UNTIL 10 PM PST
WEDNESDAY FOR COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER TO
FLORENCE OUT 60 NM.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ROUGH COLUMBIA RIVER BAR UNTIL 4 PM
PST WEDNESDAY.
&&
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THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FROM
THE CASCADE CREST TO 60 NAUTICAL MILES OFFSHORE. THE AREA IS COMMONLY
REFERRED TO AS THE FORECAST AREA.2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Freezing rain impacted the upper hood river valley area with two reports from the public of ice accumulations around 0.25 inch just northwest of Parkdale on Trout Creek Road (1500 feet elevation).
A trained Spotter reported around 0.10 inch of ice accumulation around Hood River.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, January 2014
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 496908, 496909.