By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
The low pressure area that has been triggering the showers and thunderstorms moved into central and northern Washington this morning but we continued to see showers rotating in, off the ocean, impacting our area. With the low moving inland, the thunderstorm threat diminished this afternoon, and now, we just see some weaker scattered showers coming in. The activity is starting to diminish this evening as a weak high pressure ridge is building in, capping the activity. Winds will become light and variable tonight and the low temperature drops to around 49.
Any remaining widely scattered light showers end tomorrow morning as the clouds diminish. There is a slight chance of some patchy morning fog then the winds become easterly 4-8, highs up near 67, then mostly cloudy skies return tomorrow night, the winds becoming easterly 10-15 gusting to 25, lows near 51.
By Friday the ridge weakens and shifts eastward as a trough of low pressure moves in and brings clouds and an increasing chance of rain starting that afternoon, the high near 66. That night looks cloudy and rainy with the winds more southerly, the low around 51.
You might have heard that there’s another event on Saturday October 14th – an annular eclipse … and the forecast is for cloudy across much/most of the area on Saturday. We may see a short break, but there will be another trough moving in so Saturday remains cloudy and rainy with highs near 61 and lows near 52.
Sunday things become less clear as we see a ridge of high pressure building off to the east. Some of the models keep it far east enough not to impact our weather, meaning we continue to see more rain rotating in with a trough of low pressure. Some of the models show the ridge building in further west, this would keep the rain further west and north. Going with the model I usually use, the forecast is for cloudy and rainy conditions, highs near 64, lows near 53.
It looks like Monday and Tuesday we have another trough of low pressure moving in that would bring more rain and winds to the coast and Coast Range, highs remain in the mid 60s, lows in the low 50.
