By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
Better late than never … I had a minor family emergency yesterday as a family member broke a toe, as verified by a lengthy Urgent Care visit. Today, things are semi back to normal.
As far as the weather goes, with little change in the overall weather pattern, it looks like more of the same with the usual cloudy, foggy nights. The onshore flow continues, and the fog slowly burns back leaving fair skies later in the afternoon, along with mild temperatures. This leaves us with a forecast for tonight of increasing marine clouds, with the winds diminishing, and a low of 55.
Tomorrow starts out with the marine clouds and patchy morning fog that slowly burns back leaving a mostly sunny to sunny afternoon, the winds becoming northwesterly 4-8, tomorrow high temperature again near 68. Yep, the clouds and patchy fog return tomorrow night, the winds die of and the low back down to near 53.
For Thursday, the large high pressure ridge over the Great Basin builds northwestward in response to a low pressure area west of northern California. This brings clearing mid to late morning, with the winds becoming westerly 4-8, the high up near 70. We see increasing clouds Thursday night, that are getting pushed up in the flow around that low pressure area west of northern California that is drifting to the northeast, some light winds, the low near 54.
Friday, we stay mostly cloudy as that low drifts closer to southwestern Oregon, the afternoon high temperature only up near 66, then mostly cloudy still Friday night, the low near 58.
Saturday the models show the low moving into Vancouver Island as the associated upper level trough of low pressure moves into coastal Oregon which does give us a slight chance of showers that morning, especially over the Coast Range, Saturday’s high temperature near 66. We keep the mostly cloudy skies Saturday night, the low near 53.
By Sunday it looks like a more zonal flow returns, so we return to a fair, dry, and mild pattern with partly sunny skies, the high near 69, partly cloudy skies for Sunday night, the low near 53.
Looking beyond the weekend, the long range models suggest little change in the pattern with the onshore flow dominating, though we will need to watch to see how far south a low pressure area and trough will make it next week. That forecast is too far out now to know if it would affect the Pacific Northwest, or if everything remains in southwestern Canada.
Lastly, I should mention, there is an increased sneaker wave threat tonight through Wednesday so, if you are near the surf, keep an extra eye out, and if you are in the water, be extra cautious as there is always a threat of rip currents in our area.
And that’s it, see yall again next week, stay safe everyone.
