By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
A busy couple of days Tuesday and Wednesday, with a cold front and its associated low pressure center moving across bringing between 2” and 3” of rain to the area. And now, with clearing skies, this morning saw temperatures drop briefly to 32 degrees. The expected continued cold weather has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a Frost Advisory from midnight tonight through 9:00am tomorrow morning, and a Freeze Watch valid from late tomorrow night through Saturday morning. Now is a good time to take action to protect your sensitive plants.
So, tonight, with a ridge of high pressure building to the west, and with more cold air filtering in with the light easterly winds, along with the mostly clear skies, the lows tonight near 34. This means we see some patchy frost once again.
It looks like we see patchy early morning frost, and with sunny skies tomorrow, along with the offshore easterly winds becoming more northerly 5-10, the high climbs up near 55. The areas of frost return tomorrow night with clear skies and light winds, the lows dropping to near 33.
The ridge to the west starts moving eastward over the weekend, bringing clear skies and northeasterly winds 5-10 during the day, and light to calm winds with mostly clear skies at night, Saturday the high up near 56 with lows down near 37, then Sunday the high climbs to near 59, lows near 38.
The ridge starts to weaken by Monday with a disturbance pushing up the west side of the ridge, however, we continue to enjoy mostly sunny skies with the high up near 60, then look for more clouds to return Monday night, the low near 41.
By Tuesday the ridge flattens some as that disturbance rides over the top of the ridge so we see partly sunny daytime skies for Halloween, the afternoon high near 59, mostly cloudy skies expected for Tuesday night though, and the models do suggest a slight chance of rain moving in Tuesday night, the low near 43.
The chance of rain increases for Wednesday.