Mike the Meteorologist

09/28/2026

While the Atlantic Hurricane season has pretty much been non-existent this year, the eastern Pacific season has been one for the record books. Hurricane Polo is coming onshore onto Baja California today. It was a major hurricane with sustained winds at 155 knots, but fortunately for Mexico, winds have come down to 100 knots. It poses wind concerns and major flood problems. Remnants of it could cause significant flooding in the southwestern USA. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep2+shtml/282048.shtml?key_messages

09/22/2026

The Autumnal equinox is happening tonight at 5:05 PDT! Happy Fall y'all!

08/28/2026

Tonight is the full "Sturgeon Moon"! It was named that by Native Americans who determined late Summer was when sturgeons were most easily caught in the Great Lakes. Extra special event tonight: there will be a partial lunar eclipse! Be on the lookout.

07/29/2026

If you've been in Oregon west of the Cascades, you've been enjoying some almost perfect Summer weather with blue skies, good visibility, low humidity, and high temps around 29C (84F). The Willamette Valley has had it great, but it has been horrible east of the Cascades. There are about 30 large wildfires in Central and Eastern Oregon. You can see all the smoke in the satellite image, and you can see reduced visibility in the surface observations. The infinity symbol means haze and the numbers to the left indicate surface visibility in miles.

07/28/2026

Full Moon tonight! It's the "Buck Moon" as male deer are getting their antlers. Be on the lookout for an awesome moon rise! Feel free to tap into your animal instincts and run "buck naked" into the woods:)

06/17/2026

Beautiful night sky tonight. It's neat to see the crescent moon 🌙 with Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury.

06/10/2026

This is where my family is from. What a brutal natural disaster.

Today in history 🗓
9 June 1972: With up to 15 inches of rain falling in ten hours in South Dakota’s Black Hills, the Canyon Lake Dam failed, resulting in the “Rapid City Flood” that killed 238 people.

Photo credit 📷: NOAA

05/31/2026

It's a "blue moon" out there tonight! It's the second full moon of the month. The moon is also the smallest moon of the year, because it's at an apogee in its orbit, so it's the farthest away from Earth as it gets.

03/20/2026

Vernal equinox today! Spring Equinox 2026: Date & Exact Time (UTC) | First Day of Spring

When does spring begin in 2026? Why aren’t day and night truly equal on the vernal equinox? And why doesn’t it always fall on the same date? Find out here!

03/17/2026

Eugene set a record high yesterday! We hit 78F which was 4 degrees above the record. Oddly, Eugene was pretty much the warmest place in Oregon. It stayed in the 60s in Portland. Also was weird that the forecast only called for a high in Eugene of 71.