KGW Meteorologist Joe Michaels: April 2007 Archives

On Sunday we witnessed a pretty amazing sight...a condensation plume rising above Mount St. Helens. This does happen fairly often, but typically the sight of steam rising above the volcano is obscured by our Northwest clouds and rain.
The biggest thing today's sight did for me was remind me that Mount St. Helens is an active volcano. The lava dome within the crater is steadily growing, and rising, and with time the growth of the lava d...

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I had a chance to head up into the Cascades for a story about snow earlier this week. The scenery - of course - was incredible. The snow-capped mountains and glacier-carved lakes were really amazing. But the story itself was about snow...or, perhaps more appropriately, the lack of it.
The snow is melting fairly quickly at lower elevations this year, and there is just less of it overall because of a relatively warm weather pattern in J...

>> Continue reading: Oregon's Water and Climate Change

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As I am quickly learning, weather in the Pacific Northwest can surprise you! One minute it is raining, the next it is sunny...or perhaps it is raining and sunny at the same time, just to really keep you entertained. It so happened that this combo - rain and sun at the same time - happened several times this week, and I was lucky enough to see a double rainbow Tuesday and Wednesday as a result! In fact, the rainbow I saw Wednesday w...

>> Continue reading: An amazing sight

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Hello everyone!

You may have been recently enjoying your Saturday or Sunday evening, television tuned to KGW (of course) =), when a new weather guy appeared. That guy was me - Joe Michaels.

So where am I from? I grew up in New Jersey, then moved to Florida to go to college. I really enjoyed the Florida Keys...

>> Continue reading: Who's that weather guy?

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