By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
Another cold, frosty start this morning with the low down around 27 degrees thanks to the high pressure ridge giving us another mostly clear night. After a slightly warmer, sunny day today, tonight we see increasing clouds ahead of the next approaching system. This will also bring easterly winds 5-10, the low tonight not quite as cold, only dropping down to near 36.
We pick up a slight chance of rain early tomorrow morning with a slightly better chance of rain later in the morning, approaching lunchtime, the winds becoming southwesterly 5-10 in the afternoon, high temperatures climbing up to around 58 degrees. Tomorrow night looks rainy with the front moving in, winds becoming southerly 10-15 gusting to near 25, gusting to 35 at the beaches, with those southerly winds the overnight low only makes it to near 43.
The front pushes across Saturday morning leaving showers with possible thunderstorms late morning, the winds increasing to southerly 15-20 gusting to 30, the high near 50. More showers with possible thunderstorms Saturday night, the winds now southeasterly 15-20 gusting to around 35-40 with gust to 45-55 possible at the beaches, lows near 42.
The front will still be influencing the weather Sunday with rain and rainshowers with possible thunderstorms, still on the windy side also with southwesterly winds 15-20 gusting to 30-35, highs near 49, more showers and possible thunderstorms Sunday night, still breezy, lows near 40.
Next week it looks like we have a trough of low pressure over the area with a strong jet stream over the top of us running from southeast to northwest, and all this equals more clouds and rain along with breezy to windy conditions for Monday into Tuesday then it appears things will slowly start settling down Tuesday night into Wednesday. The long range models put us under a strong ridge of high pressure by Thursday that could push the temperature up to or even above 60 degrees. This is still pretty far out and can obviously change between now and then.