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Weather Eye: Pesky weather system to bring widely scattered showers

By Patrick Timm
Published: March 28, 2019, 6:00am

The weather system that brought Monday’s rain appeared once again Wednesday afternoon with steady rain. As of 4 p.m., a line of thunderstorms was moving north through the Willamette Valley and may have come as far as the Columbia River.

This low will remain pesky, as they do in the spring, and bring more widely scattered showers today with sun breaks lingering into early Friday. Hopefully, the sun will be shining as school lets out. Saturday will be a warm and dry day and perhaps Sunday, too. We have another low reaching us late Sunday into Monday. Not quite sure of the timing but hopefully daylight hours Sunday remain dry.

Next week for spring break doesn’t look like a washout, but it will be a typical spring regimen with a chance of unsettled weather and showers. However, the vacation goes on and we will work around the showers. Don’t cancel your family plans by any means.

Sunshine, dry or liquid, is always welcome here especially this month as we are running nearly 2 inches below average. With below average rainfall the last six months, we do not want to get further behind or it will be an early start to the wildfire season.

Monday we switch gears to the second month in spring, April. Its weather is not fickle like March but more temperamental. Nice and sunny one day and thundery the next. Many of our tornadoes and funnel clouds have occurred along with those April showers.

I was looking at the extended climate outlook the other day and the period April through June calls for warmer and drier than average weather. Where have we heard that before? So maybe we get an early start on the vegetable garden this year, and the berries ripen early or at least on time.

Enjoy the weather Saturday and we will chat again on Sunday.

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