Portland is bracing for its first serious heat of the year, and forecasters are urging residents to prepare now. The National Weather Service issued an Extreme Heat Watch today for the greater Portland and Vancouver area, warning of dangerously hot conditions with temperatures climbing toward 100 degrees this weekend.
The watch runs from Sunday into Monday evening and covers the Portland metro area, including parts of Clark, Multnomah, Clackamas, Skamania and Washington counties. If the forecast holds, it would deliver the region’s first 100-degree heat of 2026.
How hot it will get, and when
So far this year, Portland has recorded just one day in the low 90s. This weekend could be a sharp jump. The heat builds starting Saturday, with the weather service expecting three to four days at or above 90 degrees and the peak landing Sunday and Monday.
Forecasters put real, if uncertain, odds on triple digits. The weather service’s own forecast discussion gave inland valleys a 65% to 85% chance of topping 90 degrees on June 13-15, and a 10% to 30% chance of reaching 100 or higher on June 14-15. Sunday’s record high at Portland’s airport is 89 degrees, set in 1988, a mark forecasters say could fall by roughly 10 degrees…