When it rains it pours, doesn’t it? At least lately. Wow. After the deluge over the weekend, we got slammed Wednesday with yet another atmospheric river streaming up from Hawaii. Pineapple Express, anyone?
As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Portland had 13 weather advisories and warnings for Oregon and Southwest Washington. Too many to list here. The main issue locally will be urban and creek flooding as another 2-3 inches of rain were in the forecast.
Along with the rain will be gusty winds today. The snow in our foothills will melt with the warmer air aloft and rush down county creeks. Salmon Creek was already running the color of gravy. We had surpassed the entire monthly average for February with 4.04 inches at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The silver lining in these clouds, if any, will be a tapering off of the rain Friday and Saturday, and high pressure is forecast for later in the weekend and early next week. At least we get rid of the east wind and those chilly temperatures and replace with highs in the 50s, maybe a 60 here and there next week. Nothing worse than rain falling while the thermometer is hovering in the 30s. Spring, anyone?
