By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
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Another front pushed through yesterday, leaving scattered showers that continued today. So far in the last 24 hours the area has seen a little over an inch of rain with the Coast Range seeing nearly two inches of rain. With daytime heating and unstable air aloft, we also had a slight chance of thunderstorms today with some breezy afternoon winds. With the air becoming more stable tonight, we see fewer showers with the winds becoming easterly 5-10, the low near 38.
High pressure begins to influence the weather tomorrow by capping the shower activity with a few light showers possible tomorrow morning, mainly over the Coast Range, then they too dissipate by the afternoon. So, tomorrow looks mostly cloudy with light winds, the high near 52. The high pressure continues to build on Wednesday night, light winds still, and with partly cloudy skies, the low drops to near 35, which may promote some patchy early morning frost.
The ridge builds even more Thursday, so we see sunny skies with easterly winds 4-8, the high climbs to near 61. We can expect mostly clear skies Thursday night, east winds 4-8 still, the low dropping to near 42.
The expected strong high pressure ridge dominates the weather pattern from Friday on through the weekend, then into Monday. So, Friday we expect sunny skies with a high near 69, sunny and 70 on Saturday, then Sunday we start to see the high pressure weaken some so, while we continue to see sunny skies, the high temperature only makes it to near 66.
The ridge looks to weaken more on Monday as an upper level trough pushes down from the northwest. This likely leads to a few clouds and cooler temperatures with the high temperature only climbing to near 62.
