Happy Groundhog’s Day! It will be nice to see more sunshine in the skies, and the extended weather forecast calls for just that.
As offshore breezes pick up Friday and Saturday, the weather should be delightful all the way to the coast. The Gorge will be hammered again with very strong east winds. The weather geeks will be up at Crown Point again, I’m sure.
I don’t see much rain the next 10 days or so, maybe a quick shot Tuesday, but high pressure will dominate the weather scene. The cold air still lingers in Alaska. I saw a photo of a rental car dashboard that one weather enthusiast posted on a local weather blog. The thermometer was showing minus 29 degrees. Can you imagine driving the car at that temperature? No thanks.
So is winter over? Well, not by the calendar anyway, and there is always a chance of something happening if the weather pattern changes. But if we don’t get any action by the first of March, the odds of any big weather events get quite smaller. Not that we can’t get wet snow in March, but springtime weather usually takes over.
