The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Watch your step, Portland! It’s icy out there—I know this because I almost ate shit on my front steps this morning and because the weather people say so. Freezing rain and rain.
One person has died due to Multnomah County’s ongoing cold snap, the county medical examiner announced Tuesday. According to a county press release, the person died on Christmas Day due to hypothermia, or extreme cold. Temperatures reached a low of 35 degrees on December 25 in Portland according to the National Weather Service, and extreme weather shelters in the region didn’t open until 3 pm that day. The person who died was housed but was.
The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland! I hope you enjoyed those cute little flurries of snow this weekend. We may get a couple more inches Monday night before we start playing the thaw-and-refreeze game for.
The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Congrats on making it through the holiday work week—let’s cap it off with a headline sendoff! In local news: • The city and county are opening five 24-hour warming shelter starting December.
The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Congrats on making it through the darkest day of the year—it’s all uphill from here! In local news: • With the new year comes new laws! Oregon legislators were busy bees during.