Changes Ahead in the Northwest for Next Week

While weather headlines in the Northwest as of late have been full of Red Flag Warnings and Air Quality Alerts, it appears that a change in the pattern will arrive as early as Sunday evening.

Most of the weekend looks to remain warm and sunny for the Northwest, as precipitation remains confined to British Columbia. However, a series of digging troughs will bring widespread rain stateside as we enter the next week.

The Weather Prediction Center has forecasted significant rain totals from the Northern California coast up through the Olympics over the next 7 days.

Not all the precipitation may fall as rain! Longer range models are spitting out decent snow totals across the Cascades and the Sawtooth Ranges of central Idaho!

This pattern flip may last deeper into October. There is some confidence in above-average precipitation here for the first few days of the month.