Christmas time is here which means this one man forecasting team hasn’t been posting quite as often, but I managed to squeeze some time in today for you all 😉    Before giving the forecast details for the next 7 days I thought I would give a fast recap to our “big storm” from this past Monday night.

The rain totals ended up being spot on with Salem recording 1.86 inches of rain Monday & Tuesday combined; although the majority of this fell Monday night while most of us were sleeping, so it may not have felt like much of a storm.  We also recorded a max wind guest of 48mph very early Tuesday morning which is the strongest we have seen all winter.  Overall not a huge storm, but definitely the “best” storm we have seen this year.

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Looking ahead we don’t have any big storms or arctic blasts headed our way.  No chances for valley snow either, just some regular valley rain and mountain snow.

Details

Saturday evening through Tuesday morning will be the wettest period of the next 7 days. 

Notice a lot of yellow highlighting on the extended forecast.  There is a lot of uncertainty for next week, so keep an eye out for changes.  For now this is my best guess.