Portland Residents Should Expect An Icy Commute Monday Morning

PORTLAND, OR — After two days and nights under a winter storm warning from the National Weather Service's Portland office, people should expect complications on Monday. Namely icy roads will make the commute dangerous.

The temperature will have reached a low of about 21 degrees Sunday night into Monday.

Forecasters say that will freeze any snow that remains and freeze any water that's around from melted snow.

As a result, departments of transportation throughout the region have been working round the clock since Saturday, plowing and treating roads with salt and other substances.

Those agencies and local police departments – including the Oregon State Police – are urging people to not travel on Monday unless they must. And, if they have to, people are urged to take public transportation.

While Monday should be cold and try, the National Weather Service sees Snow might return to the valley floor on Tuesday.