Weather Eye: After scorching days, ‘warm’ weather forecast through Tuesday

The good news with the weather outlook is we will be returning to more bearable high temperatures after today. Thursday’s forecast high will be near 90 degrees and by the evening hours we will feel relief off the ocean with cooler marine air rushing up the Columbia River.

We may even have some brief morning cloudiness on Friday, which depending on the thickness, could hold our high temperature to 80 degrees plus or minus. After that and beyond we will see highs in the “warm” category with highs 85 to 90 degrees through Tuesday. No rain in sight and no extended cooling.

There will be areas of instability and high-level moisture streaming up into Oregon from California and some tropical moisture from hurricane remnants off the Baja coastline. Right now, it is forecast to move north and then skirt eastward south of Clark County. We’ll probably see some clouds in a few days and higher humidity. We will revisit this scenario in my next column.

Meanwhile, we managed to reach 102 degrees on Wednesday as of 5 p.m., breaking the old record of 101 degrees set in 2012. Tuesday also had a high of 102 degrees but fell short of the record 103 degrees back in 1933. Our four days of triple-digits highs began on Sunday, 100, 108, 102 and 102 degrees on Wednesday. Excessive heat for most.

I expect the remaining days of August to be warm and I see some climate experts are predicting September and October presenting us with warmer than average temperatures. Officially, the dog days of summer have ended, however my pup is still curled up in a ball in her bed lingering in those lazy dog days of summer. She goes by Webster’s definition of the dog days of summer which states, “The period between early July and early September when the hot sultry weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere.”

If I’m correct, a quick review Wednesday showed our tally of 90 degree or above high temperatures at 17 so far this year. We generally average about 14 or 15 days, so we are a little above average. More to come folks!