Weather Eye: Clouds are likely and showers are possible for a cool spring week

There are some uncertainties in the weather this week. Showers today and Monday are given. Tuesday through part of Thursday may be dry. Then rain and cool through Saturday. That is how many forecast models looked Saturday afternoon.

I can tell you we won’t have any 80-degree weather this week, that’s for sure. Temperatures as warm as last Wednesday and Thursday were more typical of July and August.

So, I broad-brush with “cloudy at times and a chance of showers” all week, but the window of Tuesday and Wednesday looked dry.

Saturday’s sprinkles up to 5 p.m. amounted to only a trace of rain locally. Along the north Oregon and Washington coasts some heavy showers were reported. At 5 p.m., Olympia and a few cities around Seattle reported heavy rain showers.

We were expected to get a few hit-and-miss showers overnight and again today, as a slow-moving upper-level low walks in from the west.

The 50th anniversary Hazel Dell Parade of Bands is May 17. The annual parade is legendary as a good-weather event, with hardly any rain or even overcast skies in the past 30 years or so. If I was a betting man, I would place bets on fair weather that Saturday.

Then after that, as we get into Rose Festival and the end of the month, we always keep a weather eye out for the pesky Rose Festival Low that often appears with lots of clouds and cool showery weather. Maybe not this year!