By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
A large low pressure area that is still spinning up in the Gulf of Alaska continues to give us an onshore flow. Adding to this is a disturbance that pushed across this morning, and the marine layer managed to get pushed into the valley, giving them a cloudy start to the day as well. The clouds again burned back to the coast leaving us with a partly sunny, mild afternoon. That disturbance continues to track off to the east tonight, leaving us with a zonal flow and back comes the marine layer again tonight, and with calm winds, the low is near 52.
The flow becomes more southwesterly tomorrow in response to that low pressure area to the north, starting to drift south along the coast of British Columbia, and so we see another partly sunny day, the winds becoming westerly 4-8, tomorrow’s high temperature near 67. That low will swing a weak front across tomorrow night, so we see more clouds, light westerly winds, a chance of some spotty light showers by midnight, the low near 57.
Some light showers are likely Wednesday morning, then still a chance in the afternoon, the winds becoming southwesterly 5-10, the high near 67, cloudy with a chance of showers still Wednesday night, light winds, lows near 57.
There is a slight chance of a lingering shower Thursday morning, then the clouds start clearing in the afternoon, the high near 68, look for mostly cloudy skies Thursday night, lows down near 51.
By Friday, a ridge of high pressure starts building in that will help to bring in sunny skies and warming temperatures into the weekend. So, Friday starts out partly sunny, but things clear up by the afternoon with the highs up near 71. With mostly clear skies that night, the lows near 54.
Look for sunny skies Saturday and Sunday with the highs warming into the mid 70s, and with some mostly clear nights, the lows in the mid 50s. And, with the valley heating up again into the 90s, the afternoons could be on the breezy side.
Looking down the road towards the middle of the month, the Climate Prediction Center suggests in their August the 3rd report, that covers the period from August 11-17th, that we will see a near normal probability of precipitation, which means is not much for this time of year, and they are leaning towards above normal temperatures for that period. Kinda like what we are seeing already.
That’s it for this week, see yall next Monday.