Extreme winter weather took out power, shut down transit, halted flights and left Portland under half a foot of snow and ice Saturday, but the storm wasn’t done yet.
Saturday evening and into Sunday morning “expect a little bit of repeat of what we’ve been seeing,” said David Bishop, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Portland.
That includes rain, freezing rain and snow, said Bishop, as well as east winds of five to 10 miles per hour. Overnight, that could mean 1 to 3 inches of snow, he said, with up to a 1/10th of an inch of ice.
Snow and ice of less than a quarter-inch could accumulate Sunday morning, he said, before temperatures start to warm to 35 to 40 degrees in the afternoon.
At that point, he said, the precipitation will transition more into rain in most parts of metro Portland.
That warming and rain, however, won’t be enough to completely get rid of the accumulated snow and ice already on the ground, Bishop said.
Sunday night, he said, expect another round of freezing rain and rain with accumulations of ice of up to half an inch.
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” Bishop said. He cautioned that the situation is “dynamic” and weather patterns can change at any time.
“Remain safe and vigilant,” he recommended. “This is still a changing system and things are very hazardous out there.”
As of Saturday afternoon, 8 inches of snow had accumulated at the weather service’s Portland office since the storms began late Thursday night.
Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency for nine counties Saturday due to the effects of extreme weather, which included power and communications outages.
Many in Portland and around the state were without power Saturday.
As of 6 p.m., Portland General Electric was reporting that about 200,800 of its customers were without power and Pacific Power was reporting that around 27,400 customers in Oregon were without power.
PGE spokesperson Elizabeth Lattanner told The Oregonian/OregonLive that the outages were due to the ice, wind and snow that has buffeted the area since the storms began.
Lattanner said some PGE customers may not have power restored for one or more days.
“A storm of this size is creating challenges for our restoration response as well,” Lattanner said. “Our crews are working non-stop right now to quickly and safely restore power. We recognize it’s cold outside and folks need their power back on as soon as possible.”
TriMet shut down MAX and bus service Saturday morning, though it had resumed travel on some lines by the afternoon.
More than half the flights out of Portland International Airport were canceled Saturday, according to Kama Simonds, a spokesperson for the Port of Portland.
“We are encouraging everyone to check with their airline to be sure their flight is still operating before heading to the airport,” she said.
Some roads were plowed in Portland Saturday but many streets remained covered in snow and ice.
I-84 remained closed through the Columbia River Gorge Saturday afternoon.
Warmer weather is coming, Bishop said, along with warmer showers into the middle of the week, which should help melt the snow and ice.
With that, brings another concern: flooding.
“We are keeping an eye on possible flooding or anything like that,” Bishop said. “At this particular moment, we aren’t anticipating anything but it is something that is on our mind.”
Jaimie Ding contributed to this report.
-- Lizzy Acker
503-221-8052, lacker@oregonian.com, @lizzzyacker
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