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Thursday, February 23, 2023
Weather
Well, the models definitely led us astray on the low pressure area’s movement yesterday and last night. As you gathered this morning, it remained stationary until this morning when it started drifting further offshore, pulling the showers west with it. It also appeared to be weakening which may have been a reflection of dryer air spilling in from the gorge area. The models now show that the low will indeed race southward towards California today and tonight, leaving us with mostly clear skies tonight as the shower chance diminishes. We could see winds becoming more northerly 8-12 gusting to 35, that with the overnight low of 19, could give us single digit windchills.
Tomorrow is our dry day with sunny skies, winds easterly 5-10, the high near 40, mostly clear skies tomorrow night, lows not quite as cold, near 23.
Saturday starts out mostly sunny, the snow level lifting to around 800-1000’. The light east winds will shift in the afternoon, becoming more southwesterly ahead of another approaching trough of low pressure that brings an increasing chance of rain starting that evening with rain likely later Saturday night. Highs near 47, lows near 33 so there is a chance of rain or snow, or a mix in the early morning hours. Obviously the Coast Range will be all snow above around 1000’.
The trough and front will keep Sunday and Monday rainy with highs near 47 but with the low temperatures expected to fall close to freezing, forecasting the snow level at night thru the early morning hours, this far out, is challenging.
Another trough moves in by Tuesday so the rainy forecast changes little Tuesday into Wednesday so more rainy days with snowy nights possible, the highs near 46, lows still around 30-33.
