Downtown Portland has received 3.5 inches of snow; here’s how the rest of NW Oregon stacked up
By Anthony Macuk (KGW), Rod Hill, Chris McGinness, Alex Jensen
PORTLAND, Ore. — The last round of snow from this week's winter storm wrapped up Friday morning, and now the results are in: As measured on KGW's rooftop, downtown Portland received a total of 3.5 inches of snow on Thursday and Friday. The city overall got 2.0 inches, as reported by the National Weather Service.
For downtown, it was a pretty even split across the two days, with the first big round of snow Thursday morning and early afternoon dumping about 1.7 inches and the second round bringing another 1.8 inches starting late Thursday night and continuing through mid-morning Friday.
The second round in particular brought more powder than expected; after a Thursday afternoon lull, the forecast had called for a night of freezing rain followed by a brief round of morning snow, but the transition back to snow ended up happening pretty early in the night. Portland International Airport reported almost entirely snow, with just traces of ice in the mix.
More freezing rain had been predicted for areas south of Portland, with the National Weather Service issuing an Ice Storm Warning for Salem Thursday night. But with temperatures hovering at or just above freezing, the city ended up getting a mix of precipitation that built up only 0.1 inches of ice on the ground at most.
Here's the full rundown for the rest of the northwest Oregon cities, courtesy of the National Weather Service:
- Stayton: 1.8 inches
- Monmouth: 3.0 inches
- Amity: 3.0 inches
- Mt Hood Village: 6.0 inches
- Mill City: 3.2 inches
- Happy Valley: 3.2 inches
- Corvallis: 1.0 inch
- Albany: 2.0 inches
- Lake Oswego: 3.7 inches
- Sherwood: 2.0 inches
- McMinnville: 2.0 inches
- North Plains: 3.5 inches
- Hillsboro: 3.0 inches
- Sandy: 2.0 inches
- Estacada: 3.0 inches
- Oregon City: 2.0 inches
- Hood River: 4.5 inches
- Damascus: 3.0 inches
- Salem: 3.0 inches
- Beaverton: 2.0 inches
- West Linn: 3.0 inches
- Gresham: 2.0 inches
- Milwaukie: 3.0 inches
- Battle Ground: 3.0 inches
- Vancouver: 3.0 inches
- Portland: 2.0 inches
Several dozen flights were canceled or delayed at Portland International Airport (PDX) due to the winter storm.
As of around 10:20 a.m. Friday, Flight Aware reported that 29 flights at PDX had been canceled and 50 flights had been delayed.
