Heat in Greater Portland Metro Area, Oregon

High Temperatures were in the low to mid 90s June 7 through June 9th which is around 22 degrees higher than the seasonal normals. The low temperatures were also unseasonably warm and the low temperature on June 7 of 61 degrees at the Portland Airport tied the warmest low record that was previously set in 1948. There is one known indirect heat related fatality where a young man boy drowned while swimming in the Clackamas River near Gladstone. Multnomah County had 7 hospital visits for heat related illnesses.

An unseasonably strong upper level ridge of high pressure resulted in hot temperatures early in June where high temperatures were around 20 degrees higher than the seasonal normals. The hospital visits for heat related illness for Northwest Oregon increased by 50 during this period.