Wednesday October 28, 2009

Good morning from the First Alert Storm Center

It is a cold morning so far across the area. Temperatures in Portland are in the lower 40s, but west of Portland we're already in the lower to middle 30s. Patchy fog will be around again this morning too, so expect some reduced visibility at times on your way to work.

High pressure is here for a day giving us dry conditions, and even a little sunshine for the afternoon. Once the patchy fog burns off we'll see some clearing, but not a whole lot. High clouds ahead of the next weather system are already spreading inland. So at most today, expect filtered sunshine with partly to mostly cloudy skies. Rain will return to the coast late tonight, close to midnight, and stick with us for tomorrow. A warm front will push mostly into western Washington, but enough of it will move our way for some rain. Speaking of western Washington, so much rain will push in that there are Flood Watches in effect for some area rivers. Thankfully around here we won't see anything like that with this system.

Friday we'll see some showers off and on all day. Heading into Halloween the weather is actually looking better. I'd say for Halloween you'll see showers for the first part of the day, and dry weather by Saturday evening!

Have A Great Wednesday,
Meteorologist Nick Allard
KGW NewsChannel 8

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