The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning at 2:34 a.m. on Saturday valid from 10 p.m. until Monday 4 p.m.

Strong winds gusting up to 50 mph could create near-whiteout conditions, reducing visibility to below a quarter-mile.

I think it points to one of the unique things about the Central Oregon Cascades, which is its geologic ... call the critical zone. It’s this near-surface layer where atmospheric processes ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades ... currently stored at the Cascade Range crest in an area near the Santiam Pass.

Karlstrom — along with researchers from Oregon State University, Duke and the U.S. Forest Service — are trying to map out how much water is stored beneath the volcanic rocks of the Cascades.

University of Oregon scientists and partners published a study on Jan. 13; the study said they found an aquifer running ...