We seem to be wasting no time diving right into the rainy season this year.  For starters Salem set a new daily rainfall record this past Tuesday with 0.96” of rain falling with those intense thunderstorms we had.  Plenty more rain on tap, specifically during the first half of the coming week.

Here’s a look ahead:

Highlights

Today:  Rainy much of the day.  Heavy at times.

Monday:  A typical sunbreak and shower type of day.  Everyone should see heavy downpours of rain and or hail, and some of you will likely experience thunder & lightning like we saw this past week.

Tuesday:  Rainy, windy, and cool.  Winds could gust around 30 or even 35mph during the afternoon.

Wednesday:  Near Repeat of Monday.

Thursday:  A lot more sunbreaks with only a couple PM showers.

Friday:  For now I’m going with a slight chance of a PM shower.  Majority of the day should be dry.

Saturday:  Leaning towards this day being partly cloudy and dry, but lower than normal confidence means this could easily change.

I’ve got a brand spanking new forecast out for the first week of September 2019.  Check it out!! 😉

Highlights

Completely dry now through Wednesday evening.

Chance for showers and even thunderstorms very early Thursday morning through Friday morning.

Somewhat lower confidence for next weekend’s forecast, but at this point Saturday is looking all dry.

Sunday and next Monday are looking showery – specifically Sunday evening through Monday.

Bottom line:  If you have outdoor projects requiring dry weather then the first half of the week is your best bet.  I’ll have another update in a day or two with more details on our thunderstorm chances mid week, and on the shower chances for the weekend.

Take care and a have an enjoyable Labor Day!!

You don’t need a weather forecast to let you know that today is going to be a hot 🙂  The reason I’m giving a quick update is due to the slight chance for thunderstorms and or a few light showers everyone has tonight through tomorrow morning.

The chance for a shower or storm is small, and there’s a possibility many of us won’t get anything, but the chance exists which means I’ll be keeping an eye to the sky.

These storms will not necessarily bring a lot of rain with them which means the threat for wildfires getting started by lightning strikes is a bit higher than normal.  Hoping that does not happen.

In other news, the city of Astoria set a new record high temp yesterday of 91°F.  The old record was set way back in 1894 (125 years ago).  Here in Salem we reached 100° which was one degree shy of tying our record high for the day set back in 1935.

Enjoy the heat!!