By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
As was expected, the high pressure ridge that has given us the nice weather the last few days is starting to drift east and is moving over the region today, and that, with all the sunshine gave us the warmest day of the week with the afternoon high temperature peaking out in the upper 60s. As the ridge continues to get pushed to the east tonight by a deepening trough of low pressure to the west, we will see increasing cloudiness tonight in the developing southwesterly flow though down here at the surface we see calm winds tonight, with low temperatures down around 45.
Tomorrow, with the flow pushing in some moisture from the southwest combining with a weak disturbance pushing through, there is a slight chance of some afternoon showers. The winds tomorrow westerly 4-8 in the afternoon, the high near 62. Tomorrow night looks mostly cloudy but dry, with calm winds the low down near 45.
As for the weekend, it appears the deep trough of low pressure will be developing into a closed low pressure area west of northern California Saturday, which for us means we will see partly sunny skies with the winds becoming northwesterly 5-10 gusting to 18, the high temperatures near 57, then Saturday night the low pressure area to the south starts moving eastward through California which bring us some mostly cloudy skies, winds northwesterly 4-8, lows near 43.
Sunday we could see mostly cloudy skies with some wrap around showers moving across the area from the southeast, the high near 56, then mostly cloudy but dry Sunday night, lows near 45.
As for next week, the models suggest another disturbance moves through bringing back the threat of showers Monday and Tuesday before some sunny skies return midweek.
And there you have it Tillamook, another week in the books, so, until Monday, this is meteorologist Gordon McCraw wishing you all have a great weekend.
