Back on an Upswing
Monday, August 13, 2007NOWCAST - We are back on an upswing with sunny skies and warm temperature's after a chilly 66 degrees on Sunday - for a HIGH temperature! Full sunshine will push highs well into 80's Tuesday and we will get another warm day Wednesday before we go back downhill with clouds and at least a risk of showers and drizzle once again. This has been a roller coaster month for sure.
While clouds and drizzle hovered over Clark County Sunday and Sunday night,it was clear at the coast as I spent a few days at Ocean Shores and clear skies gave great viewing Sunday night for the Perseid meteor shower. Today (Monday) was absolutely beautiful at the coast with sunny skies and highs around 70 degrees and light sea breezes. We watched for hours several whales near the jetty at Ocean Shores frolicking in the surf.
Signs of summer waning are here with crisp overnight lows around the Northwest this morning, in the mid 40's along the coast and in the 30's east of the Cascades. There is just a certain sense of season change in the air, at least to me.
-- posted by Pat Timm @ 9:28 PM,
2 Comments:
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At 9:52 PM,
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This comment is about what we are seeing in the southern horizon at 9:45 p.m. on Friday Aug. 17th. We are seeing, in the darkened sky, with a crescent moon setting in the west, rays of clouds across the sky. They are like commonly seen rays of sun seen at sunset, but are rays of clouds, spread out like a fan. Any explanation? Darrell and Janet Miller, Vancouver
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At 8:24 PM,
Pat Timm said...
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Hello,
Since I didn’t see this I cannot tell you exactly what you saw. We did have a southwesterly flow at the time and could have been clouds streaming up from SW and bumping into a diffluent flow of air causing them to fan out and amplified by the low angle of the sun. Was probably very pretty.
Regards,
Pat
