Toasty Nineties

Refreshing showers this morning.  Ahhhh.  July ends with mild conditions and a gentle touch of precipitation.  Enjoy the coolness because the 'toasty nineties' return with a new month.  Mug refilled?

We never shy away from making errors, as this morning’s light rain confirms.  Last report, we just didn’t see a strong enough pattern to usher in some rain today — we were way wrong.  But, a delightful mistake anyway, unless you have just bailed that hay or alfalfa.  It will dry off quickly.  Warm weather returns this week, as models project another round of HOT temperatures beginning later this week.

By Thu, temps will rapidly rebound into the upper 80s-to-low 90s in many OR locations; the heat will expand northward on Fri for a 5 day run of 90+ temperatures around western OR & WA this weekend on through Tue Aug 6.  Yes, east side, too.

By the middle of next week, Aug 7, temps may get tapped down a few degrees, as a weak onshore flow begins to develop.  It may not be strong enough to ‘clear out’ 90 degree heat in the southern Willamette Valley until Thu or Fri, Aug 8,9.

The weekend of Aug 10,11 is trending pleasantly cooler, with an onshore breeze & morning marine cloud deck; warmer temps return to start the week of Aug 12.  Indeed, summer remains in play.