What does Clackamette Park in Oregon City look like 48 hours later? I headed out to Clackamette Park today to shoot some follow-up photographs of the park flooded by the Willamette and Clackamas rivers. The scene at the park looks vastly different than it did 48 hours ago when I posted the flood photos in [...]

Last Wednesday, a strong warm weather system dumped heavy rain in the Willamette Valley, causing major flooding, extensive damage, and a few fatalities. Most of the floodwater is draining into the Willamette River and flowing downstream northward to Portland. There is some flooding along the banks of the Willamette River. Clackamette Park is a small [...]

Snow is now falling and sticking to the street surface in Milwaukie. At 9:20 p.m. rain fell from the sky and the temperature was at 39°F. Shortly after 10:00 p.m., the rain turned to snow and the temperature plunged to 34°F. One-half inch of snow covering the ground at the 125-foot elevation as of 10:45 [...]

Depending on where you were in the Portland metropolitan area for the past three days, either you had some snow or you did not. Some towns in the region received a couple inches of snow accumulation. Other towns only saw a light dusting or no accumulation. In Milwaukie, the snow accumulation amounted up to nothing, [...]