Marine Weather and Tide Forecast for Cliffdell, WA
July 26, 2024 5:25 PM PDT (00:25 UTC) Change Location
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PZZ135 Puget Sound And Hood Canal- 256 Pm Pdt Fri Jul 26 2024
Tonight - N wind 5 to 10 kt, easing to around 5 kt after midnight, backing to W late. Waves around 2 ft or less.
Sat - SW wind around 5 kt. Waves around 2 ft or less.
Sat night - W wind 5 to 10 kt, backing to S after midnight. Waves around 2 ft or less.
Sun - S wind 5 to 10 kt. Waves around 2 ft or less.
Sun night - SW wind 5 to 10 kt, backing to S after midnight. Waves around 2 ft or less.
Mon - S wind 5 to 10 kt. Waves around 2 ft or less. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon.
Mon night - S wind 5 to 10 kt, easing to around 5 kt after midnight. Waves around 2 ft or less. A chance of showers.
Tue - S wind 5 to 10 kt. Waves around 2 ft or less. A chance of showers in the morning.
Tue night - W wind 5 to 10 kt, becoming sw after midnight. Waves around 2 ft or less.
Wed - S wind around 5 kt, veering to W around 5 kt in the afternoon. Waves around 2 ft or less.
Wed night - NW wind 5 to 10 kt, becoming N after midnight. Waves around 2 ft or less.
PZZ100 256 Pm Pdt Fri Jul 26 2024
Synopsis for the northern and central washington coastal and inland waters - High pressure over the coastal waters with lower pressure inland will maintain onshore flow over the next few days. A frontal system will move across the area waters on Monday.
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Area Discussion for - Pendleton, OR
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FXUS66 KPDT 262325 AFDPDT
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pendleton OR 425 PM PDT Fri Jul 26 2024
Updated aviation discussion
SHORT TERM
Tonight through Sunday night...Satellite imagery reveals widespread smoke and haze across most of eastern Oregon and eastern Washington, the result of regional wildfires which continue to burn. Have extended smoke and haze in the forecast through Sunday morning based primarily on HRRR smoke output.
While smoke and haze will likely linger across the region, especially in the vicinity of ongoing wildfires, have opted to exclude mention in the gridded forecast due to uncertainty in the evolution of fires and smoke output.
Weak troughing over the Pacific Northwest will keep near-normal temperatures and locally breezy westerly gap winds in place this weekend. Saturday, a weak disturbance tracking across southeast Oregon will bring non-zero, but low (<5%) chances of showers or thunderstorms across the southern Blue Mountains during the afternoon. A concurrent shortwave tracking across northern Washington appears mostly dry with the main consequence being the wind.
LONG TERM
Monday through Friday...Models continue to be in good agreement in having a trough over the Pacific Northwest with a ridge over the central CONUS Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday, a front moves through the area and carries the trough eastward while closed low develops out in the eastern Pacific. Models show general agreement in having a westerly zonal flow overhead Wednesday though about 40 percent of model ensemble cluster members begin having the ridge building into our area.
Thursday and Friday, model ensemble members all have the ridge building and strengthening over our area with temperatures warming well above normal to around 100 degrees by Friday.
The Extreme Forecast Index highlights Precipitation amounts along the Washington Cascades Monday and Tuesday with values of 0.72-0.82 and some shift of tails values indicating a possibility of heavier rain. It also highlights breezy winds Monday afternoon in central Oregon and portions of the Columbia Basin with a value 0.73. Cooler than normal temperatures are highlighted Monday and especially Tuesday due to cooler air with the front.
Monday will see the trough coming ashore with a slight chance to chance of showers developing the Cascades in the late morning and afternoon then spreading into the rest of the area Monday night.
The Cascade crest could get up to a half of rain but amounts will be fairly light away from the crest. Models are not showing enough instability for thunderstorms and the timing may be too late (evening) for convection in the eastern mountains, so just have showers. With the front, winds will increase to 10 to 20 mph over most of the area. Model probabilities show a 25-55 percent chance of 20 mph sustained winds, but chances of 25 mph sustained winds drop to below 15 percent and that is just in the Columbia Gorge and Kittitas Valley. Temperatures Monday will be similar to Sunday with highs in the mid 80s to around 90 in the lower elevations.
Tuesday will see the trough overhead and then moving off to the east Tuesday night. This will be a more favorable day for showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the eastern mountains though amounts will be just a few hundredths of an inch for the most part. Showers and thunderstorms will end quickly in the early evening. The Columbia Basin will again have 10 to 20 mph winds but winds will be lighter in central Oregon. Temperatures will drop a few degrees to the lower to mid 80s with 70s in the mountains.
With ridging beginning to develop Wednesday, foresee dry weather and light winds with temperatures warming to near normal in the upper 80s to lower 90s. The ridge will strengthen further Thursday with temperatures rising to the mid to upper 90s and in the mid 80s to lower 90s in the mountains. NBM probabilities show a 20-35 percent chance of reaching 100 degrees in the Columbia Basin, central Oregon and in the John Day valley.
On Friday, the cutoff low that has been parked out in the eastern Pacific moves closer to the coast and our flow turns more southerly and unstable due to a possible ridge breakdown. There is some chance that this situation could pull some moisture into the area and PWATs are over an inch in the GFS, but at this time models are holding off on any showers or thunderstorms. It looks more favorable next Saturday but that is past the scope of the long term forecast. This will have to be watched during the course of next week. Temperatures will warm further with highs rising to 97-105 in the lower elevations and mainly in the 90s in the mountains. NBM probabilities give a 40-70 percent chance of reaching 100 degrees, but the chances of 110 degrees are less than 5 percent even in the warmest locations. Perry/83
AVIATION
00Z TAFs...VFR conditions with mainly clear skies will prevail through the night then expect some increasing high clouds on Saturday. However, there will be considerable haze and smoke aloft and some reduced visibilities produced near many of the ongoing fires. Continue to expect YKM to have vsbys down to around 4SM overnight in HZ and FU with some possible improvement on Saturday.
KBDN could also see a return of some SCT-BKN around 040 overnight through Saturday morning. Winds will be less than 10 kts overnight.
KDLS will see winds increasing after 15Z tomorrow to 15-20 kts and gusts around 30kts.
PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS
PDT 51 86 56 87 / 0 0 0 0 ALW 54 89 60 90 / 0 0 0 0 PSC 56 91 61 91 / 0 0 0 0 YKM 53 89 55 89 / 0 0 0 0 HRI 54 91 60 90 / 0 0 0 0 ELN 56 87 57 86 / 0 0 0 0 RDM 47 86 48 85 / 0 0 0 0 LGD 51 86 51 87 / 0 0 0 0 GCD 51 88 51 88 / 0 0 0 0 DLS 58 86 61 85 / 0 0 0 0
PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
OR...None.
WA...None.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pendleton OR 425 PM PDT Fri Jul 26 2024
Updated aviation discussion
SHORT TERM
Tonight through Sunday night...Satellite imagery reveals widespread smoke and haze across most of eastern Oregon and eastern Washington, the result of regional wildfires which continue to burn. Have extended smoke and haze in the forecast through Sunday morning based primarily on HRRR smoke output.
While smoke and haze will likely linger across the region, especially in the vicinity of ongoing wildfires, have opted to exclude mention in the gridded forecast due to uncertainty in the evolution of fires and smoke output.
Weak troughing over the Pacific Northwest will keep near-normal temperatures and locally breezy westerly gap winds in place this weekend. Saturday, a weak disturbance tracking across southeast Oregon will bring non-zero, but low (<5%) chances of showers or thunderstorms across the southern Blue Mountains during the afternoon. A concurrent shortwave tracking across northern Washington appears mostly dry with the main consequence being the wind.
LONG TERM
Monday through Friday...Models continue to be in good agreement in having a trough over the Pacific Northwest with a ridge over the central CONUS Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday, a front moves through the area and carries the trough eastward while closed low develops out in the eastern Pacific. Models show general agreement in having a westerly zonal flow overhead Wednesday though about 40 percent of model ensemble cluster members begin having the ridge building into our area.
Thursday and Friday, model ensemble members all have the ridge building and strengthening over our area with temperatures warming well above normal to around 100 degrees by Friday.
The Extreme Forecast Index highlights Precipitation amounts along the Washington Cascades Monday and Tuesday with values of 0.72-0.82 and some shift of tails values indicating a possibility of heavier rain. It also highlights breezy winds Monday afternoon in central Oregon and portions of the Columbia Basin with a value 0.73. Cooler than normal temperatures are highlighted Monday and especially Tuesday due to cooler air with the front.
Monday will see the trough coming ashore with a slight chance to chance of showers developing the Cascades in the late morning and afternoon then spreading into the rest of the area Monday night.
The Cascade crest could get up to a half of rain but amounts will be fairly light away from the crest. Models are not showing enough instability for thunderstorms and the timing may be too late (evening) for convection in the eastern mountains, so just have showers. With the front, winds will increase to 10 to 20 mph over most of the area. Model probabilities show a 25-55 percent chance of 20 mph sustained winds, but chances of 25 mph sustained winds drop to below 15 percent and that is just in the Columbia Gorge and Kittitas Valley. Temperatures Monday will be similar to Sunday with highs in the mid 80s to around 90 in the lower elevations.
Tuesday will see the trough overhead and then moving off to the east Tuesday night. This will be a more favorable day for showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the eastern mountains though amounts will be just a few hundredths of an inch for the most part. Showers and thunderstorms will end quickly in the early evening. The Columbia Basin will again have 10 to 20 mph winds but winds will be lighter in central Oregon. Temperatures will drop a few degrees to the lower to mid 80s with 70s in the mountains.
With ridging beginning to develop Wednesday, foresee dry weather and light winds with temperatures warming to near normal in the upper 80s to lower 90s. The ridge will strengthen further Thursday with temperatures rising to the mid to upper 90s and in the mid 80s to lower 90s in the mountains. NBM probabilities show a 20-35 percent chance of reaching 100 degrees in the Columbia Basin, central Oregon and in the John Day valley.
On Friday, the cutoff low that has been parked out in the eastern Pacific moves closer to the coast and our flow turns more southerly and unstable due to a possible ridge breakdown. There is some chance that this situation could pull some moisture into the area and PWATs are over an inch in the GFS, but at this time models are holding off on any showers or thunderstorms. It looks more favorable next Saturday but that is past the scope of the long term forecast. This will have to be watched during the course of next week. Temperatures will warm further with highs rising to 97-105 in the lower elevations and mainly in the 90s in the mountains. NBM probabilities give a 40-70 percent chance of reaching 100 degrees, but the chances of 110 degrees are less than 5 percent even in the warmest locations. Perry/83
AVIATION
00Z TAFs...VFR conditions with mainly clear skies will prevail through the night then expect some increasing high clouds on Saturday. However, there will be considerable haze and smoke aloft and some reduced visibilities produced near many of the ongoing fires. Continue to expect YKM to have vsbys down to around 4SM overnight in HZ and FU with some possible improvement on Saturday.
KBDN could also see a return of some SCT-BKN around 040 overnight through Saturday morning. Winds will be less than 10 kts overnight.
KDLS will see winds increasing after 15Z tomorrow to 15-20 kts and gusts around 30kts.
PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS
PDT 51 86 56 87 / 0 0 0 0 ALW 54 89 60 90 / 0 0 0 0 PSC 56 91 61 91 / 0 0 0 0 YKM 53 89 55 89 / 0 0 0 0 HRI 54 91 60 90 / 0 0 0 0 ELN 56 87 57 86 / 0 0 0 0 RDM 47 86 48 85 / 0 0 0 0 LGD 51 86 51 87 / 0 0 0 0 GCD 51 88 51 88 / 0 0 0 0 DLS 58 86 61 85 / 0 0 0 0
PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
OR...None.
WA...None.
Stations | Dist | Age | Wind | Air | Water | Waves | inHg | DewPt |
TCMW1 - 9446482 - Tacoma Met, WA | 67 mi | 68 min | N 13G | 71°F | ||||
TCNW1 - 9446484 - Tacoma, WA | 67 mi | 68 min | 56°F | 30.00 |
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(wind in knots)Des Moines
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Fri -- 03:47 AM PDT 3.06 feet Low Tide
Fri -- 05:40 AM PDT Sunrise
Fri -- 09:20 AM PDT 9.10 feet High Tide
Fri -- 12:22 PM PDT Moonset
Fri -- 03:20 PM PDT 1.93 feet Low Tide
Fri -- 08:49 PM PDT Sunset
Fri -- 09:57 PM PDT 12.68 feet High Tide
Fri -- 11:27 PM PDT Moonrise
Tide / Current data from XTide NOT FOR NAVIGATION
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Fri -- 03:47 AM PDT 3.06 feet Low Tide
Fri -- 05:40 AM PDT Sunrise
Fri -- 09:20 AM PDT 9.10 feet High Tide
Fri -- 12:22 PM PDT Moonset
Fri -- 03:20 PM PDT 1.93 feet Low Tide
Fri -- 08:49 PM PDT Sunset
Fri -- 09:57 PM PDT 12.68 feet High Tide
Fri -- 11:27 PM PDT Moonrise
Tide / Current data from XTide NOT FOR NAVIGATION
Des Moines, Washington, Tide feet
12 am |
9.4 |
1 am |
7 |
2 am |
4.8 |
3 am |
3.4 |
4 am |
3.1 |
5 am |
3.8 |
6 am |
5.2 |
7 am |
6.8 |
8 am |
8.3 |
9 am |
9 |
10 am |
8.9 |
11 am |
7.9 |
12 pm |
6.4 |
1 pm |
4.6 |
2 pm |
2.9 |
3 pm |
2 |
4 pm |
2.2 |
5 pm |
3.5 |
6 pm |
5.7 |
7 pm |
8.2 |
8 pm |
10.5 |
9 pm |
12.1 |
10 pm |
12.7 |
11 pm |
12.1 |
Tide / Current for Tacoma, Commencement Bay, Sitcum Waterway, Puget Sound, Washington (sub)
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Tacoma, Commencement Bay, Sitcum Waterway, Puget Sound, Washington (sub), Tide feet
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