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Portland, Oregon – Wet highways and reduced visibility could slow drivers along I-5 and U.S. 26 before 8 a.m. Thursday as a series of Pacific systems moves into Oregon, bringing widespread rain in the valleys and accumulating snow in the higher Cascades through early next week.
According to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, Oregon now sits in a 60 to 70 percent above-normal precipitation zone through Tuesday, marking one of the more active signals in the western United States. The same 8-to-14-day outlook favors below-normal temperatures across much of the West Coast, reinforcing a cooler, unsettled pattern statewide…