By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
Incoming high altitude cirrus clouds signal the approach of a couple of systems that will give us increasing cloudiness tonight and likely cause some patchy drizzle across the area later tonight or early tomorrow morning. Winds tonight continue to be northwesterly 4-8, the low near 49.
Tomorrow we can expect cloudy skies, the patchy drizzle ends by midmorning, winds becoming more northerly 8-12, the high near 60. The rain chances move back in around midnight tomorrow with a cold front, winds northwesterly 5-10, lows near 46.
Sorry about Father’s Day, but it looks like Sunday will be a rainy day until the front passes through around noonish, then we transition over to scattered showers that persist through Sunday night, winds westerly 5-10, highs only near 56, lows down near 45.
Next week we will have a tough of low pressure drifting in over the area bringing more rainshowers Monday and Tuesday with daytime highs still on the cooler side at around 58 degrees with nighttime lows near 48.
The trough and its associated low pressure center will move out of the area to the east and northeast by Tuesday night so any remaining widely scattered showers will come to an end by around midnight. So Wednesday is looking partly sunny and warmer with the high near 63. Conditions continue to improve Wednesday night and we see only partly cloudy skies, the lows still around 48.
Thursday the sunny skies return which pushes the afternoon highs up near a more comfortable 67 degrees.
Father’s Day is Sunday
HAPPY Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. And just where did Father’s Day come from…I’m glad you asked.
Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane Washington is credited with starting Father’s Day back in 1909 though there was a church in West Virginia that sponsored the nation’s first event specifically in honor of fathers during a sermon in memory of 362 men who died the previous December in a Fairmont Coal Company mine explosion. The next year Sonora from Washington got the idea to honor Fathers while listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day which was emerging as a holiday at the time, and on June 19th, 1910, The state of Washington celebrated the first Father’s Day.
The celebration continued to spread but it wasn’t until 1972 that Father’s Day became a nationwide holiday, thanks to a proclamation by Richard Nixon making Father’s Day a Federal Holiday.