Well, now that I am pretty much over this darn Flu bug, except for the famous lingering cough, I can think once again. I have been able to do some digging for some 2024 statistics for yall. Using a site that sits in the middle of North Main, downtown Tillamook, I offer the following weather numbers, for December, the high temperature was on 12/20 at 63.3 degrees, and the low temperature for December was on 12/2 at a cold 25.0 degrees. For December, the Tillamook area saw 15.8” of rain and the maximum wind gust at the station was 41.2 mph on 12/18. Obviously, these numbers would vary from station to station.
The numbers for all of 2024 for this station, well, the warmest day was 87.4 on 5/10, the coldest was on 1/3 when it got down to 24.8 degrees. Total rainfall for 2024 was 103.73” and the maximum wind gust was still that 41.3 on 12/18. The maximum daily rainfall was on 11/24 when this station received 3.16” of rain in that 24hr period.
Now, let’s move to the forecast for today, 1/6/2025. The satellite picture shows we are now between systems with high pressure moving across. This gave us a fair, dry, and mild day and will bring us a partly cloudy night with light easterly winds, the low drops to near 38.
Tomorrow will be another fair and mild day with partly sunny skies and easterly winds 4-8, the high near 53, then a weak disturbance rides over the ridge and the tail end gives us a slight chance of light rain under mostly cloudy skies later tomorrow night, with calm winds, the low only drops to near 41.
By Wednesday we are watching another system pushing across the ridge that will give us mostly cloudy skies, still we keep the calm winds, highs now up near 57. The clouds push off Wednesday night leaving partly cloudy nighttime skies, the low near 42.
Thursday starts out mostly sunny, the high climbs to 58, then that night we watch a low pressure system up in the Gulf of Alaska move to the northeast but dragging a cold front towards our area that will bring us some rain again Thursday night into Friday morning, the high temperature Friday back down to near 52, with a slight chance of rain still Friday night, the low drops to near 40.
The weekend appears to be drying out with only a slight chance of a widely scattered light shower under partly sunny skies Saturday, maybe some patchy fog that night into Sunday morning, the overnight low near 37, and with a mostly sunny day Sunday, the high only near 51.
