At 5 p.m. Saturday as I write this column, there are some pretty dark looking clouds with lightning and thunder west of Portland heading to Clark County. A large thunderstorm was hitting Salem at that hour and we were expected to have a chance of thunderstorms all night into early this morning.
The upper-level low that had been parked all week above California is moving northward and will be in Western Washington later today. Then our risk of rain and thunderstorms will diminish. The upcoming week looks very nice with some morning clouds and highs bouncing from the upper 70s to the mid-80s. Nice.
Many locations in Clark County reported thunder and lightning late Friday night into early Saturday morning, mainly Amboy, Yacolt and Battle Ground. I had a brief shower around midnight Friday but nothing measurable.
The thunderstorms that moved through Oregon and Washington also brought large hail and heavy rain, between one-half inch and one inch, mainly over the Cascades. A funnel cloud was observed Friday in Oregon.