I’m glad we are finished with that 100-degree weather and hopefully no more triple digits for us this summer. It was nice to feel that refreshing sea breeze late Thursday evening lowering temperatures into the 60s. One could almost smell the ocean salt air.
This left us with a pleasant day on Friday with only brief morning clouds here and there and seasonal afternoon high temperatures. Generally, around the county highs were 80-85 degrees but cooler in some outlying locations.
If only comfortable 80-degree temperatures and clear skies could last for more than one day. This weekend we see highs near 90 degrees or so and with an offshore wind pattern expect lots of wildfire smoke drifting into Clark County. We’ll also add increased humidity. Bottom line, hot, muggy and smoky.
The good news is we switch back to an onshore flow of air that will reverse the pattern and usher the smoke and hot temperatures eastward. Highs next week look to be 80-85 degrees with lower humidity. Something to look forward to.
The remnants of Hurricane Hilary that we discussed the other day now look like they will remain to our south and move through Oregon and on eastward. Some good soaking rains are likely in Central and Eastern Oregon. We may see some higher or middle cloudiness Sunday as the humidity temporarily increases.
We are past the middle of the month, and it is hard to believe for us weather and climate folks, in less than two weeks we enter the meteorological beginning of autumn. Say it can’t be. With all the warm weather lately, it seemed to me to be an endless summer. But back to reality as the summer season wanes.
It sure is dry and we could use some of that tropical moisture that seems like it will evade us. Our weather observer Judy Weber noted this about the blackberries in her neck of the woods in north Clark County. “It is so dry that blackberries are shriveling and not ripening. Most that do ripen lack the usual sweetness unless you can find some growing in the shade.”
Keep watering the yard and garden like crazy and maybe stay inside this weekend if the smoke lowers near ground level. We’ll chat on Tuesday.
