Some of Both

The big storms over the weekend caused a fatality, property damage, and over a hundred thousand power outages, mainly in western WA.  OK, so what’s the wx going to be like to end October and through the first half of November?  Ready. Set. Sip.

Here we go, the final week of posting The Weather Café®️  

For this week, showers ending today, with a dry day on Tue, except for additional steady rain due to arrive over Vancouver Island & mainland BC later Tue.  Generally, wet overnight Tue for all areas north of Portland (Salem north may get some precip, depending on the track of the next deep 977mb Low centered over Haida Gwaii.  Breezy.  Wed will present some drying, with an east wind kicking up overnight through a dry Thu Oct 30.

HALLOWEEN.  A very deep, powerful storm - modeled with a center pressure of 950 mb - will essentially ‘fill’ the Gulf of Alaska late this week.  While that deep Low will not cross into the PNW, it will set off a WET Halloween, esp over western WA & BC (heavy rainfall).  The ‘tail' of that front will drape over western OR, with less rainfall expected.  Looks breezy and wet during trick-o-treat time; mostly dry over southern OR, northern CA and ID on Halloween.

Weekend of Nov 1,2:  A secondary front to all of that above will sent rain & showers over the PNW on Saturday.  Turning cooler on Sunday, with decreasing showers.

Week of Nov 3 - 7:  Wet nearly everyday, except for a mostly dry Mon.  Interesting -  Tue is charting a tightly wound, small storm tracking onshore somewhere south of Lincoln City; could be WINDY in the Willamette Valley south of Salem.  Wet Wed afternoon, breezy.  Rainy Thu, turning showery and COOLER by Fri the 7th to end the week.

Dry Spell.  Finally, several dry days may arrive, starting the weekend of Nov 8,9.  FROST POSSIBLE both sides of the Cascades Sunday morning the 9th.  Vancouver Island will be wet, so no frost there.  The following week (Nov 10-14) is currently charting as dry.  We’ll see.