By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
Happy Monday Tillamook. We had a few showers over the weekend thanks to a low pressure area moving into California, and we continued to see some light showers moving across the area today from to a disturbance that pushed in from the northwest. Things will calm down some tonight, with calm winds, the low drops to near 42.
Now tomorrow, we see another pattern change as we have rain moving back in, associated with a cold front that will also cool things down some the next few days. So tomorrow we see cloudy, rainy skies with breezy southwesterly winds 10-15 gusting to 25 to 30, the high near 52, then the rain continues tomorrow night, the winds becoming more westerly and ease some after midnight, the lows drop to near 38. Rainfall totals for this even in the neighborhood of 1 ½” to 2 ½” for tomorrow.
We can expect to see some more rain and rainshowers Wednesday and as the associated low pressure area moves across the area, there is also a chance of thunderstorms starting in the afternoon, the high Wednesday only up near 50, then the rain continues but the thunderstorm threat ends that evening, the low drops to near 35.
For Thursday we can expect the rain or rainshowers to ease under partly sunny skies, highs near 54, The rain diminishes by around midnight Thursday, lows near 39.
Conditions improve Friday with fair skies as a ridge of high pressure moves across, the afternoon high temperatures 56, mostly cloudy that night, the low near 39. Unfortunately, the models suggest another low pressure system will bring back the rain chance Saturday with more rain likely by Sunday, the highs near 58, lows near 44.