Monday might be a good day to break out the old Beatles vinyl and play that bouncy Lennon-McCartney hit “Good Day Sunshine” — it might be the last time those lyrics have relevance in Western Washington for a while.
Or so says the National Weather Service, which is predicting Monday will be the last virtually cloudless day in the 70s for the foreseeable future. Next week, T-Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday” might be in order.
The weather service says Monday’s skies will be clear, and the high could reach 74 degrees. However, by evening the possibility of rain will increase to 20%, with winds out of the southeast gusting to 20 mph.
By Tuesday, meteorologists are predicting likely showers and high temperatures around 64 degrees. The weather service predicts a 70% chance of rain, but with accumulations expected to be less than a tenth of an inch.
While National Weather Service meteorologist Dustin Guy said, “It won’t be terribly wet” this week, Wednesday will see the worst of it. Western Washington will see the sun again, Guy said, as autumn begins its inevitable creep toward the Big Dark and the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year – on Dec. 21.
“We can still buy a little time for some pleasant weather before the month ends, but I think we’ve seen the last of the 70-wise temperatures for a while,” Guy said on Sunday. “We expect the temperatures to return to their norms for this time of year.”
The NWS expects mostly cloudy weather, rain and temperatures in the 60s will continue throughout the week, although Thursday — at this point — promises “partly sunny” versus “mostly cloudy.”
