We got a new weather alert from Portland's National Weather Service...it..umm..puts a damper on things, so to speak:
..ANOTHER UNSEASONABLY COOL AND WET WEATHER SYSTEM ON THE WAY...
AFTER ONE RELATIVELY WARM DAY TODAY...SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON AND NORTHWEST OREGON WILL TRANSITION BACK TO COOL...CLOUDY...AND WET WEATHER FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SNOW WILL EVENTUALLY BE POSSIBLE IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE CASCADES.
LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING WELL OFF THE COAST WILL SPREAD RAIN ONSHORE THIS EVENING. ONCE RAIN DEVELOPS...EXPECT STEADY RAIN FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT AS THIS SYSTEM ONCE AGAIN TAPS INTO A PACIFIC JET STREAM WHICH IS RICH IN MOISTURE. RAINFALL TOTALS UP TO ONE HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE BY MIDDAY WEDNESDAY IN THE INTERIOR VALLEYS...WITH UP TO AN INCH TO AN INCH AND A HALF IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN.
RAIN WILL TRANSITION TO ON AND OFF SHOWERS THROUGHOUT THE DAY WEDNESDAY. A CLAP OR TWO OF THUNDER IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS THE AIR MASS BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE. COLDER AIR WILL BE MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...WITH TEMPERATURES LIKELY TO FALL TO AROUND 10 DEGREES BELOW EARLY JUNE NORMALS.
THIS SYSTEM WILL ALSO CAUSE SNOW LEVELS TO LOWER TO UNSEASONABLY LOW ELEVATIONS. DURING THE COLDEST PORTION OF THIS EVENT...LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY...SNOW MAY FALL AS LOW AS THE CASCADE PASSES. ONLY MINOR ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED AT PASS LEVELS...BUT A FEW INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 5000 FEET.
CAMPERS...HIKERS...AND OTHERS PARTICIPATING IN OUTDOOR RECREATION IN THE CASCADES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES AND CONDITIONS WHICH ARE MORE TYPICAL OF EARLY SPRING. RECENT HIGH ELEVATION SNOW HAS ALSO INCREASED THE AVALANCHE DANGER FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATION PEAKS SUCH AS MOUNT HOOD...MOUNT ST HELENS...
AND MOUNT JEFFERSON.
So sorry to shower you with this lousy forecast. I hate raining down bad news. I've hit my four pun limit, I'm done now.
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