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By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
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Well, there were plenty of showers yesterday that gave many areas around an inch of rain between the front and the postfrontal showers, there was even some hail reported. Today we watched a low pressure area in the Pacific, several hundred miles off the coast of Washington, that was drifting eastward, which again enhanced the shower and thunderstorm threat for today along with bring some breezy winds to the region. We see some more showers with the hail and thunderstorm threat tonight, winds southerly 10-15 gusting to 30 with the low pressure area still meandering off the coast, overnight lows near 41.
A couple of changes will happen tomorrow, first a ridge of high pressure starts to build in, to the northwest, that will nudge the low pressure area which will start to drift southward along the coast towards northern California as it starts to weaken. That leaves us with showers for tomorrow, the thunderstorm threat increases some with daytime heating until around lunchtime. Then we may start to see some partly sunny skies with the shower activity become more scattered in the afternoon, then widely scattered by the evening hours, the winds decreasing to 5-10 and becoming more northwesterly, the high near 57. The low continues to push south tomorrow night and the ridge builds into our area, bringing mostly clear skies overnight, winds northeasterly 5-10, lows near 39.
The weekend continues to look fair, dry, and mild with sunny skies, the highs near 60, then some mostly clear nights, lows near 40.
The ridge starts shifting eastward Monday ahead of the next Pacific weather system but not before giving us a mostly sunny day with highs around 60 again, then some clouds move in Monday night, lows near 44.
The approaching system brings more clouds and a chance of rain on Tuesday with a shower chance for Wednesday, highs falling to near 51 by Wednesday, lows near 40.
