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Weather Eye: Third dry weekend in a row on its way; look out for fog

By Patrick Timm for The Columbian
Published: January 20, 2022, 6:03am

Here we are again facing another weekend and wondering will we have sunshine? I can tell you it will be our third dry weekend in a row. Skies overhead will be clear as high pressure shunts weather systems away from us. The only factor will be fog that forms overnight Friday through Sunday, will it clear?

I was hoping for a little easterly winds to develop, but there may be a lack of pressure differences to cause the lower atmosphere to mix up. Otherwise, we will go for night and morning fog with mostly sunny afternoons the next several days. Sounds good to me. Looking at weather charts, however, we may slip into another inversion pattern where it is beautiful sunny weather above a thousand feet and socked in here at city levels.

Keep positive, we only have to deal with fog overnight and we get a break, we deserve one I think. Besides the guarantee of sunny skies at higher elevations will be the northern Oregon Coast and the Long Beach Peninsula. Skies will be sunny and highs near 60 degrees and light winds. About as pleasant as it gets even in summertime at the coast. So, if the fog and low clouds tend to hang around, you have choices this weekend.

We’ll have clouds and light rain today and after that be prepared for seven days with no rain. That takes us to this time next week. Imagine that in January? On a bright note, the sun will set at 5 p.m. this evening, making it another positive milestone. The days are getting longer.

Our highs the next seven days will be in the 40s to near 50 degrees and lows in the 30s. If we manage to get full sunshine one day, we could swing well into the 50s. Dream on.

Seems like long ago but the month started out on a chilly note with a low of 22 degrees on New Year’s Day. We have had five days with lows below freezing. The warmest was a high of 56 degrees on Jan. 6 and 12. We can reach 60 degrees in January, so it is not unusual to see it that warm.

We’ll chat on Sunday and look at what’s on the horizon. Take care.

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