PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – February has been known to produce a few winter storms for the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Not only an inch or 2, merely some major snow events.

You may non realize, but Portland will have an average high of 54 degrees in the atmospheric condition forecast by the time the calendar month wraps upwards. Temperatures start warming as the 24-hour interval length continues to extend. That hasn't prevented the big snowstorms from showing up though. Going back to recent years, nosotros've had some of our most productive winter years coming in the month of February.

Ice covers a tree branch and street light in Portland, February 12, 2021 (KOIN)

Portland didn't record whatsoever measurable snowfall in January, which means the Willamette Valley is waiting on another depression elevation winter tempest. In that location'southward been at least a trace of snow going back the last five years, and iii of those five years have produced snowfall worth talking about.

You definitely think the snow and ice event from terminal year. Yous can become back and read virtually the Feb. eleven-14 snow and water ice storm here.

February 2021 wrapped upwardly with 10.1 inches of snow, and both 2019 and 2018 finished with more half-dozen inches of snow. Talk almost a busy month of winter forecasting! But what nearly February 2022?

Nosotros can confidently say that the first part of the month is panning out to be slow, leaving the area mainly dry and clear of snow.

Do y'all retrieve the dry stretch that was coming off of January? We had nine days in a row that was vacant of rain. That was because of a bound and determined ridge of high pressure. That type of ridge tin can show upwardly in February besides. Extended conditions models are projecting a like weather design for the start part of February. Swipe through the graphics below to run into how the jet stream will meander over the side by side eleven days. Afterwards Monday, Feb 7, we may have a strong ridge develop to the w. That ridge eventually shifts due east and holds. That would preclude wintertime weather from moving in for the PNW. This would also lead to another stretch of morning fog and afternoon sunshine.

Yet, Mother Nature has been known to throw a curveball into the equation from fourth dimension to time. Correct now, the likelihood of low acme is low. A echo of last Feb. 11-14 doesn't seem to be in the cards at this fourth dimension, merely that doesn't mean the terminal few weeks of Feb aren't open to schedule a date for snowfall.

If nosotros accept the expected ridge and look at the temperatures that are associated with it, daytime highs may push the upper 50s to 60 degrees. That won't practice the trick for wintertime weather. That may mean an extended menstruum of time that nosotros do not have mountain snow too. For the balance of this calendar week, temperatures will hover in the mid-40s until the weekend. There have been some areas in the forenoon that have had freezing temperatures. Those areas are having dropping temperatures because of the clouds immigration out and the heat escaping out to the atmosphere. We oasis't had a cold air mass move in that tin proceed the surface and air aloft in a land of cold trance.

Yous may find it interesting that our average first 24-hour interval at 60 degrees or above tends to occur in February! From 1991 to 2020, the Portland drome tends to see threescore degrees around Feb xviii. We have already hit 60 this twelvemonth due to a warm tape-breaking day in January.

If you were hoping for warmer temperatures this calendar month, you lot'll have to wait a footling longer. For the record, if we do not record any measurable snowfall this month, March has been known to bring in a few snow events too!