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Weather Eye: Higher temps, little rain in the forecast

The Columbian
Published: January 20, 2011, 12:00am

It appears that there won’t be much to write home about weather-wise for the next two weeks or at least the rest of the month.

The latest outlook from the National Climate Center is for above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation. So while the West Coast is projected to be overall mild and dry, the East Coast will be cold and dry, but don’t rule out some bouts of heavy snow.

Only southern Texas and Florida are expected to get some excessive moisture.

So besides some minor intrusions of weak weather systems, lots of dry weather is in the offing. Hopefully, we will get some offshore flow, with east winds keeping the fog at bay and warming things up at the coast. In fact, this weekend may be a good one to take a jaunt to the ocean beaches, where it should be clear and very mild — kind of what we see in February sometimes at the coast.

Weather watchers will just have to turn to other avenues of enjoyment and maybe get something done around the house. Ha-ha. Watching and hoping for computer forecast models to produce some exciting weather will, of course, be in the background.

The liner is in. I have been making this statement for some time now on my Facebook page and on my website, and have received many comments and a few chuckles about it, so here is the inside scoop. By some fate-related scenario, I’m sure, it seems that when the temperature reaches 50 degrees or higher, it is too warm and uncomfortable to have the fleece liner inside my rain parka, so out it comes. If the liner is in, we are experiencing or can expect colder weather. So I have been using this as a non-scientific forecasting tool.

Enjoy the rest of your week and we will chat on Sunday. Oh, and yes my liner is in.

Pat Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at http://weathersystems.com.

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