Stunning sunset tonight from Portland's Westhills. You can almost feel the heat on the way. #NatWxDesk

Good news! relief from the heat, Extreme Heat Warnings have been dropped for Willamette Valley. Air Quality Alert remains in place until 10 PM. Cooler weather ahead for rest of the week. #NatWxDesk

Remember the saying when thunderstorms roar, go indoors! Looks like an active afternoon ahead, thunderstorms are popping up north of Salem and in The Cascades west of Redmond. If you hear thunder or see lightning get under cover. #NatWxDesk

Two earthquakes off the Oregon Coast. A 5.8 magnitude at 9:08 PM and a smaller 4.4 shaker at 9:15. Both tremblors were shallow between 8 and 6 miles deep. The quakes occured over 100 miles offshore in the Blanco Fracture Zone. No Tsunami, no damage expected #NatWxDesk

Dry skies ahead for the rest of the week & temperatures warming into low 80s by Saturday. Sunday a cold front arrives bringing rain showers. Then a return of warm & dry. #NatWxDesk

Friday & Saturday expect mild & dry conditions, by Sunday a fall like cold front arrives. You might want to prep for more of that. long range models now say there's a 71% of a La Nina pattern. That would bring a cooler & wet fall weather. #NatWxDesk

A very strong earthquake has rocked the Kamchatka Penninsula of Russia. Close to the area that was hit by a large tremblor earlier this summer. This quake was shallow about 6 miles deep. No, Repeat No Tsunami Watch or Warning for West Coast #NatWxDesk

Astoria topped out at 90° at 2PMa new record for the day, east wind 15mph. An hour later wind shift west southwest temperature 75°. Effects of offshore and onshore flow. #NatWxDesk

Updated record high temperatures for today. Cooler temperatures tomorrow but still plenty of sunshine. Officially just 6 days until fall begins September 22 at 11:19AM. #NatWxDesk

Perfect late summer weather continues. Sunday our next best chance of showers. Fall begins 11:19AM Monday morning, will be very "un" fall like. #NatWxDesk

Perfect late summer weather continues. Sunday our next best chance of showers. Fall begins 11:19AM Monday morning, will be very "un" fall like. #NatWxDesk

Keep an eye on the sky tonight. International Space Station will make a flyby tonight. Over the next few nights there will be more opportunities to see the station zoom across the northwest. #NatWxDesk

Smoke from wildfire east of The Cascades is now over much of Western Orego & Southwest Washington. The Wind at Crown Point now over 50mph, air quality in Portland now considered moderate at 57 on the AQI index. #NatWxDesk

Mt Hood looking pretty bare, that'll change in the next 7 days. Cooler & wetter weather arrives next week, snow levels will drop to the 7,000 foot level. FYI Timberline Lodge sits at 6,000 feet. #NatWxDesk

Look up in the sky! It's a bird, a plane! No it's the ISS making another flyby over the Northwest tonight. Skies will be clear and the space station should be easily visible coming in from the WNW and departing to the SE. #NatWxDesk

With fair skies in the forecast it's a good night for some stargazinng or in this case meteorgazing. Tonight the Orionid Meteor Shower peaks with 10 to 20 meteors per hour moving across the night sky. Best viewing as always away from city lights. Enjoy! #NatWxDesk

Looking more & more likely we will see an Atmospheric River event later this week. Rainy & windy conditions arrive Friday and continue through the weekend. Southern Oregon looks to take the brunt of the storm. Locally 1" to 2" of rain. Snow levels 3,000-3,500ft #NatWxDesk

Melissa is one for the history books. Only two storms have had lower pressure. Melissa came ashore with sustained winds of 185 mph tied with the 1935 Florida Keys Hurricane. A peak gust of 252 mph makes it the strongest gust ever recorded for an Atlantic storm. #NatWxDesk

Halloween forecast looking a bit more spooky than 24 hours ago. Most computer models are now suggesting light rain/drizzle arrives early evening. Rain increases after 9 PM. Temperatures still on the mild side. #NatWxDesk

Halloween forecast looking a bit more spooky than 24 hours ago. Most computer models are now suggesting light rain/drizzle arrives early evening. Rain increases after 9 PM. Temperatures still on the mild side. #NatWxDesk