By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
The summer pattern continues, giving us a pretty nice weekend, morning clouds giving way to a mostly sunny, dry and mild afternoon with the high temperatures reaching 70 at the airport both Saturday and Sunday, and it looks like today will be pretty similar. The only weather to speak of were some isolated thunderstorms occasionally popping up over the Cascades that lifted northward on the west side of the high pressure ridge over the western U.S. Now, to bring a little change, we see a weak trough dropping down towards the area tonight that will bring increasing cloudiness, with some calm winds though, and the low drops to near 52.
Tomorrow the clouds will slowly clear leaving another mostly sunny day with the winds becoming northwesterly 5-10, the high up near 68. The marine clouds return tomorrow night with light winds, the low down near 52.
The trough will have pushed off to the east by Wednesday leaving a weaker zonal flow across the area with the ridge still dominating the pattern, so we see warming temperatures again under sunny skies, the afternoon high up near 74. With a weaker flow, we see only partly cloudy nighttime skies with light winds, the low near 56.
It looks like the coastal temperatures peak Thursday with mostly sunny skies and a high near 75, another partly cloudy night, the low near 56. As for the weekend, another weak trough sits just off to the west Friday which brings a few more clouds giving us partly sunny skies Friday on through the weekend, with highs back down closer to 70, and mostly cloudy nights, lows in the mid 50s.
I guess you all saw that July was pretty hot, but did you know that the hottest day recorded in Oregon was on July 29th, 1898, in Prineville when the afternoon temperature climbed to 119 degrees. This record was soon tied by Pendleton on August 10th, 1898 making it the hottest August day in Oregon.
