Cloudy skies and chilly mornings continue, but warm-up isn’t far away for Tacoma area
We’re nearing the Summer Solstice (June 21), but you wouldn’t know it waking up Monday to chilly temperatures after a weekend of cold rain and cloudbursts more in line with a late winter/early spring feel.
With lows dipping into the 40s, the area can expect another cool and gray/rainy day Tuesday before sunnier days and warmer temperatures greet the official calendar arrival of summer.
Highs Tuesday are expected to barely miss 60, with a chance of another round of cold, soaking rain settling in.
Wednesday is forecast to be partly cloudy with the high in the low 70s, and lows remaining in the upper 40s to low 50s. By Thursday, sunnier days should be in full swing with the high close to 80, more in line with summer.
Monday remained an active weather day, particularly to the south, where waterspouts were reported off the Oregon coast in the Rockaway Beach area before 10:30 a.m.
The National Weather Service, earlier in the day, also tweeted a photo of a rainstorm that had passed over its Seattle office, showing the contrast of stormy skies at sunrise.
At Mount Rainier National Park, the webcam looking out at the Tatoosh Range area Monday morning showed wet roads and fog with snow on the ground and clinging to the trees at the upper elevation.
