Golf-ball-sized hail? Rain? Damaging winds? Power outages? Tornadoes?
The National Weather Service in Portland said rain and severe thunderstorms are expected to hit the Pacific Northwest, including portions of the Willamette Valley, on Wednesday afternoon.
“We have a chance to see some pretty strong thunderstorms,” Thomas Schuldt, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said. “I’d say more akin to what you’d see in the Midwest or on the East Coast, which is very unusual for here and very unusual for March.”…