By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
Hello, Tillamook, now remember, April showers bring May flowers. Considering the area has seen somewhere between an inch to over an inch and a half of precipitation in the last 24 hours, we should be seeing lots of flowers soon. We had some cooler unstable air move across this morning moving towards the northeast that brought some showers, gusty winds, with even a few thunderstorms to some. With a pretty much zonal. or west to east flow developing, it looks like there will be more areas of disturbed weather riding the flow. This will bring more scattered showers with possible thunderstorms until later tonight, the winds southwesterly 8-12 gusting to 25, tonight’s low temperatures around 45.
Still with some minor disturbances pushing across tomorrow, we will see more scattered showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms, the winds southerly 10-15 gusting to 30, the high near 54. The shower activity starts to ease overnight tomorrow, the winds also ease by around midnight, lows near 43.
Another high pressure ridge builds in by Wednesday morning, and other than some possible patchy morning fog, the day is dry with mostly cloudy skies. With light winds, the afternoon high up near 60, lows near 45.
Thursday the ridge starts getting pushed eastward by an incoming trough of low pressure so there is about a 50/50 chance of afternoon rain, the high near 62, the rain chance increases then transitions to showers Thursday night, the low near 44.
It looks like the upper level trough will linger near or over the area from Friday on through the weekend, so we see partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers through Sunday, high temperatures in the mid 50s, lows in the upper 30s.
That’s it for Monday’s forecast folks, this is meteorologist Gordon Mccraw saying, have a great week Tillamook.
