By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
As was promised, the high pressure ridge gave the region some hot temperatures yesterday with the Tillamook Airport topping off at 82 degrees while there were many areas hitting the triple digits in the valley. It looks like that strong ridge will persist today and tomorrow before things start to cool back down to more seasonable norms. Thankfully here, we do have some marine effects to cool things down some at night whereas over in the valley, their low temperatures only drop briefly into the low to mid 60s.
So, after another warm one today we can expect the patchy fog to return tonight in the early morning hours, and with light winds, the low drops to near 58.
That ridge starts to shift towards the west some tomorrow, so the region could see slightly lower temperatures though still elevated, so the fog will burn off early leaving sunny skies with the winds becoming westerly 5-10, the high temperature near 77. That patchy fog returns again tomorrow night with light winds, the low down near 56.
By Wednesday, we see the high pressure ridge getting pushed to the west as a low pressure trough rides southeastward toward the area and the combination of these two factors brings us a pattern change with cooling temperatures. So, look for partly sunny skies Wednesday with the winds becoming northwesterly 5-10, the high a more comfortable 69 degrees. We see increasing clouds on Wednesday night with light winds, the low near 55.
Thursday, we see a stronger trough of low pressure dropping down so we can expect mostly sunny skies during the day, but that night we have increasing clouds with a slight chance of rain late, highs near 67, lows near 57.
Then Friday’s forecast is for cloudy skies with a chance of rain, highs near 66, lows near 58, then Saturday we start out cloudy, but become mostly cloudy before we see mostly sunny skies that afternoon, a decreasing chance of rain, highs near 67, lows near 55.
It looks like we have another slight chance of rain on Sunday under mostly cloudy skies with another approaching system, let’s keep our fingers crossed.