By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
It is that time of year, one storm system moves through, and another has formed to take its place, and so, the last system is moving through the Rockies while the next system is pushing into the coast and will continue to rotate showers northeastward across the coast as it approaches. So, we have some more showers tonight with easterly winds 10-15 gusting to 20, the lows near 49.
A low pressure area that formed in the flow will continue to move up the coast tomorrow and will bring an increasing chance of rain along with increasing winds, which become easterly 10-15 gusting to 25, the high near 59. Look for more rain tomorrow night as a weak front moves through then the rain starts to ease by around midnight, winds easterly 5-10, lows near 46.
It looks like the weather is starting to dry out some for New Years Eve, with partly sunny skies there is only a 50/50 shot at more rain or rainshowers during the day Sunday, the high near 54. That precipitation chance ends Sunday night, and with some breaks in the clouds, the low drops to near 37.
The forecast for the first day of 2024 is for partly sunny skies with a slight chance of rain as it appears we will be under the influence of a low pressure trough off the coast Monday with that chance of rain increasing some Monday night, lows near 40.
By Tuesday and Wednesday the models start to vary some on the pattern, but it appears there will be a low pressure area forming west of the area that will rotate areas of rain across as the low drift eastward then later next week we could see a ridge of high pressure building in, maybe. This would give us continued partly sunny skies with highs near 52, and mostly cloudy nights, lows near 40, with periods of rain through midweek when conditions may start to improve. We will see how the models settle out with this scenario.
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