COLD FRONT BRINGS RAIN

LOCAL STATION FOX 12 WEATHER FORECAST (An Active Wednesday, April 4, 2012) A cool trough has set up over the Pacific Northwest and will stay put for a few days. This will bring some scattered showers to the area but also sun-breaks. A few rumbles of thunder are not out of the question this afternoon. Some thunderstorms may drop hail as well. Thursday will look similar to Wednesday as the trough lingers and slowly moves eastward. We will see a few more showers Friday morning before a nice dry, sunny stretch of weather begins for Easter weekend! That’s the challenge in the forecast today…will we see our first stretch of nice weather here starting this weekend? Maybe not…more on that in a moment. For the short-term, today was a classic nice spring day: easterly wind through the Gorge, light south wind developing up the Valley, more sun than clouds, and an approaching wet cold front. Funny that it seems so warm yet only up to just a few notches above the 60 degree average for April 2nd. Of course that’s because we’ve only seen 3 other days in the past month into the 60s. Forget the 60s for awhile because the cold front that brings rain tonight is also associated with a large and cold upper level trough that’s going to sit over the West Coast tomorrow through Friday. One significant difference with this trough compared to the past few weeks is that we don’t have all that much rain coming and it’ll be mainly in the form of showers. Wednesday, Thursday, and maybe Friday afternoons will feature the classic showers, sunbreaks, hail, and maybe scattered thunderstorms pattern. The strong April sun heats the earths surface each day and the air bubbles up quickly into the colder airmass above. We should see some of those towering cumulonimbus clouds at least Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Source: http://www.kptv.com/weather