Storms Will Continue

🔺 FINAL FORECAST from The Weather Café ®️

Lots of stormy weather on the way - yeah, November in the PNW.  Let’s share a fresh Mug of morn’n beverage on our last morning together.  All set? 

A wet system just now moving onshore over Vancouver Island & the Olympic Range.  Plenty of rain will spread south & east as this Halloween day progresses, with OR Patrons getting a break until late afternoon or this evening.  A secondary storm will rapidly deepen and move onshore Saturday morning.  This one is a potential WIND PRODUCER, especially for western OR.  Not saying 'super powerful', but with soaked soils and “leaf sails” still on many trees, there could be power outages.  Temperatures will remain mild until early Sunday, as the colder air works onshore.  Sunday should be much drier, with a few showers early in the day.  Snow showers in mountains.

Next week will be VERY STORMY.  A rather bland, but cool Monday will start the week.  Tue morning - Nov 4 - should be dry & mild.  Rain will move into the PNW from the south, so OR gets wet first, then by evening or overnight, the entire PNW will be drenched.  This system will be quite WINDY and pack lots of moisture.  It will keep us wet through Wed.  Interestingly, the Tue/Wed night storm will be the current strong storm over JAPAN today (Oct 31).  This Low pressure ‘wave’ will rapidly travel across the Pacific to the PNW.  Similarly, so too will the next storm that is charted to arrive sometime late Thu afternoon.  Another very wet system!  It will remain wet on Fri Nov 7.

Overnight Fri into Sat, a relatively weak front will bring more rain over the PNW, but not nearly as wet as the previous two ‘Japan’ storms.  Colder air may work into the PNW, so if the sky clears in your area Sunday morning Nov 9, FROST will be likely - and again Monday morning.

Week of Nov 10-14.  As suggested above, Mon should start out dry & chilly, turning WET overnight into early Tue the 11th - Veteran’s Day.  That said, we may be in between storms on Veteran’s Day with a dry period for honoring our Vets.  Flags Up.  Rain returns Tue night, with a chilly showery day on Wed. FROST possible again Thu morning the 13th.  We see DRY days on Thu, Fri on into the weekend of Nov 15,16.  Sunday Nov 16 looks wet early western WA and CHILLY.  Breezy from the west.  

Monday & Tue Nov 17,18 are trending dry and possibly foggy in the mornings.

❗️My good friend, Dillon Honcoop will be interviewing me for the last time on News Talk KGMI’s Farming Show tomorrow morning, Saturday Nov 1.  Listen live, if you can receive the signal at 96.5 FM and 790 AM.  Dillon usually posts the Farming Show on a podcast for listening after airing; search for it, if interested.  Thanks, Dillon & KGMI for all the support over the years.

“Weather forecasters are so unpredictable we never know how wrong they’re going to be.”  Yeah, right.

Ciao,