By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
A building ridge of high pressure means the dry, fair, and mild conditions continue through tomorrow. With the onshore flow weakening, the marine clouds should not move inland as much, if at all tonight. The calm winds, make it likely the patchy fog will return late tonight into tomorrow morning. That would also lead to cooler temperatures tonight so the low drops back down to near 45.
The ridge strengthens tomorrow so we see sunny skies, the winds not as breezy as today, becoming westerly 5-10 tomorrow afternoon, highs up near 72. With partly cloudy nighttime skies again, and the winds again diminishing, the patchy morning fog returns with the low near 50.
Sunday the ridge is sliding eastward ahead of an approaching weak cold front that will bring a few clouds and a chance of light rain or drizzle in the afternoon, winds becoming southwesterly 5-10, highs near 72. Then we have a better chance of light rain or drizzle overnight Sunday as the weak front moves across, light winds, lows near 55.
It appears next week will be highlighted by a pretty much zonal flow that has an occasional disturbance ride the flow and give areas to the north into Washington a slight chance of light rain from time to time. As for us, we have a diminishing chance of drizzle on Monday morning as the front exits the area, otherwise a partly sunny day with highs only up to near 68, then a partly cloudy night, lows near 51.
After that, mostly sunny to sunny days are expected with highs up near 71, and mostly clear nights, lows down near 51 through the end of next week.
By-the-way, as Fall’s official first day is September 23rd, I looked ahead on the NWS Climate Page for the Precipitation and Temperature Outlook for the second half of the month, that was issued yesterday. It suggests we have about a 35% chance of below normal rainfall, and a 55% chance of above normal temperatures, for the period September 15-21. Fingers cross that they are wrong… 😊