OK everyone happy Wednesday afternoon.
I am king fine the year all just Adam
clave on odd not too much of the forecast
today other than what probably a lot
of you have already seen in the sky
right now that smoke haze. It's here.
I know it's kind of early in the season
for this and we're going to let you
know exactly where that's coming from,
but we're also going to go over
how we expect this to kind of stick
around for the next few days.
Thankfully, not much impact,
especially here West of the Cascades,
but we could see some air quality
issues as you go east of the Cascades.
We'll let you know exactly where those are.
Let's talk about the temperatures
because for the next day or two they're
still expected to be fairly warm.
We do see a cool down and more of
a high rain chance coming in as
we head into the weekend and into
the start of next work week.
But yes, let's first.
Talk about what's happening
out there in the skies,
Everett.
Plenty of sunshine but it's a a
filtered sunshine because of the
smoke haze that we have in place.
So you can definitely notice it there
with not as crisp of a blue of a sky as
we've been seeing here the past few days.
Sun Mountain Lodge,
I think we are going to see the haze
a little more thick into some of
these parts around and east of the
cascade so you'll notice it there,
maybe even start to notice more of
a smoke smell in this in the air.
Plus looking live at Westport you
can see maybe a little of that smoke
haze in the sky, but definitely not.
Noticing as much as what you're seeing
at the farther N you go this is mixed
in with a little more that marine
air plus maybe a bit more that fog
too closer to the coast here but let
push you can definitely tell and not
a clear sunny day and smoke haze in the sky.
They're live at a pair at the parking
lot up a paradise Mount Rainier.
But we are going to see just like this
is the overall theme school net side,
Granite falls hazy skies,
smoke haze sticking around here for the day.
So what is it doing to our air quality?
Well for the time being not a whole lot.
Most spots will continue to
see a pretty good.
Air quality as we go throughout the day,
you can see around Seattle Metro
maybe a little bit of an impact
when it comes to some of that
smoke that's coming on through,
but otherwise that not seeing much at all.
Plus you're noticing a small yellow
dot up there across parts of the
tip of the Olympic Peninsula.
I would say keep an eye out there for
maybe a little less of an air quality.
Concern as we go on or a larger
concern there
as we go on here into the evening.
But most of this is going to continue
to track farther to the east.
And this is how it's really shaping up for.
So you can see all those icons that
fire icons that you see up here across
parts of British Columbia, Alberta.
That is where the smoke is coming from,
from these particular fires up here
and really where they're heading is.
Down this way you can see the wind
flow going down and then around.
So let me see if I can draw
that out for you right there.
Looks like I can't get it,
but it's coming down and then across
mostly the eastern side of this state.
So it goes this way and then
eventually it heads more towards
this way or either it gets carried.
Down into parts of Montana.
So that's what we're dealing with.
And as I zoom on in,
you can see over the next day
or so we're still noticing some
of that smoke haze in place.
And that's kind of indicated by the
lighter Blues that you're seeing
showing up here on the map right
here from that wildfire smoke
high up into the atmosphere.
Yeah.
So not a big concern when
it comes to air quality,
but still kind of around And plus
you can see those thicker plumes.
As you go farther to the east,
that's where you might have
a little more of a concern.
So as the forecast shows heading
into the day tomorrow,
everywhere that you have that highlight
highlighted Gray area up this way
around a Winthrop and OMAC and then
getting closer to Spokane and.
Down around parts just north of Pullman,
even getting close to Moses Lake,
that's where we have air quality alerts
that will be around here throughout
the rest of this evening tonight and
it looks like heading into Friday,
possibly even into your earlier
part of Saturday.
Before we do start to see some systems
move on in here and start to scour
this air on out of here and start
to bring back more of a clear and
clean air mass as far as getting the
smoke on out of here off to the east.
So that's what we're dealing with.
Again not much of an issue here
across Western Washington,
but something that we're going
to keep an eye out for.
Now back to the temperatures
at low to mid 70s.
That smoke haze does help to kind
of block some of the sun rays from
making its way down to the surface.
So temperatures today may not be
quite as warm as what was originally
expected with the clear skies,
wind direction right now you can
see mainly coming in from the
West and the northwest.
And as far as highs right up
there around the 80 degree mark,
I think we just barely get there today
and then we drop back down tonight.
Dropping into the low 60s and
upper 50s and still
quite a bit of active weather,
some thunderstorm activity across
western parts of the United States.
It looks like the immediate coastline
actually getting a little bit of a brick
right now as we get that area of low
pressure to head its way farther east,
but high pressure still the
dominant feature for us.
So things state relatively
quiet here into the night,
on into the day tomorrow we'll have a
little moisture come on through and that
will help to increase cloud coverage.
Plus give us a small chance
of a few showers and storms,
most of them probably going
to stay up into the Cascades.
Still more mountains chances.
Of rain with that and then we start to
dry out a little more heading into Friday.
You can see the flow of the storms
starting to go for more West to east
as opposed to coming in from the east.
So that's when we're going to start
to see more than a stronger onshore
flow return and that's going to
cool down temperatures but also
start to really push out some of
the smoke haze that we've had in
the air throughout the weekend.
Today's forecast highs reaching the mid to
upper 60s across our island communities,
lower 70s around Blaine,
mid 70s and Bellingham and then
some possible 80s like in Linden
and Mount Vernon getting up really
close to that number.
We'll see a few 80s around areas
such as Bellevue and Issaquah up to
8483 in Bremerton, 76 in Lynnwood.
Again,
smoke haze could drop these
numbers down just a few degrees.
So if you don't get to 80 today,
probably a little bit of a better chance
by tomorrow and then some more low to
mid 80s again for parts across South.
Sound forecast tonight we
drop down into the 50s,
kind of a cooler start for
your early Thursday morning,
then we get back around the low
to mid 80s tomorrow afternoon.
Friday sunshine will still be
around the low 80s by that point,
but then we start to see more of a
cool down starting up on Saturday
and as we go throughout Saturday
as we see that cooler air arrive,
the system arriving with the rain
chances that will start to again
scour out some of this smoke haze from
our higher parts of the atmosphere.
And we're going to start to bring
back that cooler air mass which is
going to stick around at least into
the beginning parts of next work week
with highs dropping back down into
the 60s and maybe some rain chances Again.
Not looking like it's going to be a
big washout by any means that although
for your Sunday or either for your Monday,
so those of you.
Who are probably really,
really sensitive to the smoke.
No big concerns yet and something of course
that we're going to continue to monitor.
But I think we're going to be fine.
And this should lead to some
pretty beautiful sunsets though.
So if you're one who likes to get
out and and get photographs of that.
Or maybe just get out and just do some
sightseeing and start to capture those.
Of course with the mind and the eyes.
I try to get out here over
the next couple of days.
Take care everyone.
Have a wonderful Wednesday.
We'll talk to you soon.