Portland area weather turns weird with brief intense hailstorm, thunder in some areas, rainbow

Rainbow Portland

Rainbows, thunderstorms, intense rain, sunshine and a lengthy hailstorm punctuated a strange Sunday weather day in Portland

Keep Portland’s weather weird.

Weather in the Portland area on Sunday encompassed all of nature’s wonders — blue skies followed by hard rains followed by a sudden hailstorm and a rainbow in some places, then a return to blue skies.

Scattered thunderstorms are in the forecast, too, according to the National Weather Service. Some areas of the metro region reported seeing thunderstorms already.

Snow levels dropped down to 2,400 feet. Oh, it was also kinda windy.

What is this, Denver, but with much better beer and an NBA championship?

The hail proved to be the conversation starter, as people took to Twitter to share their thoughts on that occasional form of precipitation.

Hail? Yeah.

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