Mild weather and drizzly days for now, but watch out for the coming heat wave
Good news for your yard and/or garden: Saturday may not be the only day for a rain break from summer.
A chance of rain will linger in the Tacoma area through tonight and a slight chance of showers remained in the forecast through Thursday, with temperatures Sunday-Monday in the low to mid-70s, and lows in the upper-50s to low 60s. Tuesday and Wednesday will bring a further cooldown with highs in the upper 60s and lows in the upper 50s. The high Thursday was forecast in the low 70s and a low in the mid-50s.
Friday through the weekend was forecast to be mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s and lows in the mid-50s.
If you’re headed to the mountains, the Seattle office of the National Weather Service said Saturday afternoon that there is “Increased chance of thunderstorms (mainly in the mountains) Sunday. This includes a small risk of overnight activity Saturday night.”
It added that “For the lowlands, there will be a 15-25% (chance) through Sunday morning.”
The second week of August, though, is bringing early warnings from the National Weather Service of a “heat event.”
“A warming trend is expected to begin around Friday (August 11), NWS-Seattle said in a Saturday update. “There is a 40%+ risk of a multi-day extreme heat event from August 13-16.”
While temperatures may not climb past 90 in the area, “temperatures near 100 degrees cannot be ruled out,” it added.
They noted that so far its models did not show temperatures “reaching the levels of the June 2021 event.”
The Pacific Northwest “heat dome” experienced in 2021 sent thermometers well past 100 degrees in the region for multiple days.
