By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
Hello Tillamook, we had a relatively dry day today, aside from a few stray light drizzly periods this morning. Tonight though, we see an increasing chance of rain associated with a low pressure system that moves up the coast tonight and drags a frontal system across that will push in the rain after midnight, in the early morning hours. This gives us mostly cloudy to cloudy skies tonight, still some calm winds, the low temperature tonight near 39.
The rain continues tomorrow morning, until the front passes around noon, then we transition over to showers, the southeasterly winds a little breezy 5-10 gusting to 20, tomorrow high temperature up around 51. The shower activity continues tomorrow night, the winds die off, overnight lows remain near 39.
A few more showers linger on Wednesday under mostly cloudy skies as another disturbance moves across but that chance eases again Wednesday evening, then with partly cloudy skies returning, the low drops to near 35.
Thursday, we remain under a moist southwesterly flow with a ridge to the east and a deepening trough off to the west. This brings us mostly sunny skies, the high near 54, then that trough starts to give us a slight chance of rain Thursday night, the low near 37.
By Friday, things become a little more uncertain. It looks like the models are suggesting another atmospheric river will develop, but be aimed more towards the north, into the Vancouver Island area. This would still be close enough that we would see a rainy day developing later that morning with some rain likely Saturday and Sunday. Some of the models do show the atmospheric river a little further south, resting over our area, but weaker. Either way, this means the flooding concerns remain low for our area with little to no hydrographical impacts to our rivers. High temperatures for the weekend in the mid 50s, and lows in the low to mid 40s.
Now, there is one event that I am certain will impact our area over the weekend, specifically on Sunday. Let this be your first warning. On Sunday, at 2:00am, we will all spring forward. Yep, on Sunday we all lose an hour of sleep with the start of Daylight Savings Time. This past fall we enjoyed an extra hour of sleep but now, between Saturday and Sunday, we lose an hour of sleep, but gain an extra hour of sunlight. So remember, before you go to bed Saturday, move your manually controlled clocks ahead one hour. Your smart devices, like cellphones, will take care of themselves.
That’s it for now folks, this is meteorologist Gordon McCraw hoping you all have a great week and weekend!
