By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer
We continue to enjoy fair, dry and mild conditions thanks to the high pressure ridge still over the area. We did see the typical marine layer push in this morning, but it burned off quickly, leaving some mostly sunny skies. The winds today will become westerly 5-10, and the afternoon high temperature, after a morning low of 50, will climb up to near 68. With some partly cloudy skies tonight, and calm winds, there may be some patchy morning fog with the low down near 48.
There is a disturbance expected to move into British Columbia tomorrow that will push in a cold front to the north with a chance the tail end of this front brings increased cloudiness to the area so look for a partly sunny day tomorrow with westerly winds 4-8, the high near 62. The ridge quickly builds back in by tomorrow night, bringing back the partly cloudy skies and calm winds, the low down near 45.
The sunny skies return Wednesday, and with the winds becoming more northerly 10-15 gusting to 25, the high near 63, then some mostly clear skies that night, the low drops to near 43.
Thursday also looks sunny and breezy with the high near 66, a few clouds that night, lows near 43, but it does look like the ridge starts to push eastward that night as a trough of low pressure approaches from the northwest. This will bring partly sunny skies with a chance of showers for Friday. The models suggest this will be the forecast for the rest of the weekend also, so, look for partly sunny days with that chance of showers, highs up around 60, and mostly cloudy nights, still with that chance of showers, lows down in the mid 40s.
And for you weather trivia folks, do you know what the coldest temperature in Tillamook’s history was? Give up? Well, it was on Tuesday, January 31st, 1950 when it dipped down to 1 degree Fahrenheit….that is COLD! According to the record books, the hottest day ever recorded in Tillamook was on September 14th, 1979 when it reached 97 degrees.