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The Monday morning graphic from the National Weather Service shows several watches and warnings including a warning of possibly significant icing for the Portland metro area on Tuesday.

(NOAA)

Monday morning you'll wake up to pretty much exactly what you've been seeing since Wednesday of last week. If there's been snow on the ground for days, it's still there this morning. And it will remain through the day.

Monday will be partly cloudy with sun breaks and a high of 32. Strong east winds continue to blow through the Gorge and the National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for Troutdale, Gresham, Washougal and Camas. Expect sustained winds 20-30 mph and gusts up to 45 mph.

By Monday night clouds will increase at the National Weather Service is warning of possible significant icing as moisture moves in on Tuesday for the greater Portland and Vancouver metro areas. The valleys will feel this event as far south as Salem. Other areas under the ice warning include the coast range and the Cascades.

Temperatures now look slow to recover from the nearly week-long freezing event. Because of a strong but shallow valley inversions temperatures have climbed above freezing only once out of the last five days. A combination of the inversion, freezing temps and high winds out of the Gorge will likely keep temps near or below freezing across the metro area and many inland valleys through Tuesday morning, just as rain from an incoming frontal system approaches from the

Pacific.

The current forecast for low temperatures Monday night into Tuesday are in the mid-20s. The high forecast for Tuesday is only 38 (and could decrease as forecast models come into sharper agreement).

Forecasters for NWS believe, other than in the Gorge, "the Portland metro area will probably be last to warm above freezing Tuesday, with areas east of I-205 being the most stubborn," with freezing temperature lasting well into Tuesday afternoon.

Get ready for another round of "winter" that you won't soon forget.

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