It certainly seems like the weather has its mood swings like the rest of us. Wednesday, it was a big one. East winds had temperatures in the 70s, pushing 80 degrees, by midmorning on the Fourth clear to the ocean beaches.
Meanwhile, an upper-level low was spinning off to our southwest and was expected (wishful thinking?) to remain off the coast but pushed inland and dropped the temperatures in many areas 10 degrees in a matter of minutes, especially at the coast and to our south.
In Tuesday’s column, I mentioned that there was a slight chance of drizzle or sprinkles along the coast and northern interior but I would leave it out of the forecast. As I wrote this column late Wednesday afternoon, radar and surface observations showed light rain falling along the northern Oregon Coast and the Long Beach Peninsula. Rain was also reported just south of Portland, moving northward.
I expected that much of the moisture would have decreased as it made its way to Clark County and would be dry for the fireworks.
