Happy Wednesday! We have a mix of clouds and clearing this morning with some hazy skies again. With high pressure aloft building a bit more sunshine today and Thursday, we’ll likely have a faster breakout into hazy sunshine and temperatures a little warmer in the lowlands of Western Washington.
While highs around the lowlands likely stay in the mid 70s to lower 80s Wednesday and Thursday, it will be warmer in valley spots nearer the Cascades. In addition the high heat is really on east of the Cascades with daily highs in the 90s to low 100s in central Washington.
Air quality likely remains good to moderate most of the time in the lowlands west of the Cascades, though some slight deterioration is possible by Thursday. However, air quality will be much worse east of the Cascades, as well as close to the Bear Gulch fire in Mason County.
There is some uncertainty late in the week and the weekend with precipitation chances, but some additional moisture will be moving north and that could spark some afternoon and evening showers and isolated thunderstorm starting around Friday afternoon near the Cascades and points east. Into the weekend, we could see a few showers pop up in lowland spots too but the opportunity for wetting rain looks pretty low through at least Sunday.
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