Portland Forecast Ends Rain Before 6:30 p.m. Grand Floral Parade as High Reaches 66
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Updated · KATU · Jun 6
Portland Forecast Ends Rain Before 6:30 p.m. Grand Floral Parade as High Reaches 66
3 articles · Updated · KATU · Jun 6
Summary
Rain showers are expected to clear before Portland’s Grand Floral Parade starts at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, with a forecast high of 66 degrees.
This year’s event will feel different because the CareOregon Grand Floral and Starlight parades are combined, shifting the traditional morning route into a late-afternoon parade that ends around sundown.
National Weather Service records dating to 1904 show parade day averages a 70-degree high, and more than half of parade days have been dry.
Historical extremes have been limited: the wettest parade day brought 0.57 inch of rain in 1950, while the hottest reached 93 degrees in 1963 and 2003 and the coolest was 55 in 1943.