By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
We saw a few showers over the weekend that were good for the gardens. Now today we see a ridge of high pressure building in that will bring fair skies today with some northwesterly winds 5-10, the high near 59. Unfortunately, another system will drop down from the north tomorrow that will brings more clouds in ahead of the system for tonight, we do still see some calm winds that could allow for some patchy morning fog, then we see a slight chance of rain also developing ahead of that system, by the early morning hours tomorrow, the overnight low near 46.
So, in comes the rain tomorrow along with some southwesterly winds 5-10, the afternoon high near 56, bring the area maybe ½ to ¾” of rain. The front pushes through by tomorrow night but then we see the associated low pressure area dropping down from Canada into the north Washington coastal area, and that bring showers to the area tomorrow night along with westerly winds 5-10, the low near 45.
By Wednesday, the low is moving into northeastern Oregon, so the shower activity becomes more scattered, we see increased westerly winds 10-15 gusting to 25, the high still only near 56. Another ridge of high pressure moves in Wednesday night, and with the decreasing winds, the chance of patchy morning fog returns, overnight lows near 45.
The ridge continues to build Thursday which brings us partly sunny but dry skies after any morning patchy fog clears, the high climbs up to near 61. Then we could see a disturbance bringing increasing clouds, and a slight chance of showers, later that night, lows near 44.
The models then show an upper level trough of low pressure settling over the area by Friday, just in time for the holiday, that persists through the weekend, which brings a continued chance of showers from Friday through Saturday into Sunday, the highs near 59, lows near 43.