After the cool-down this week, temperatures are forecast to ramp up this weekend and into the middle of next week as higher pressure aloft builds over the Pacific Northwest. This weekend, high temperatures for much of western Washington’s interior will climb into the 80s.
By Wednesday of next week, interior western Washington temperatures may reach the hottest of the year thus far, cracking the 90-degree mark for the second time this year. For the usual warmer places, such as the Cascade foothills and the South Sound region, high temperatures could rise into the mid-90s. Further south toward Portland, the mercury may approach 100 degrees.
Surface thermal low pressure nosing north from the interior valleys of California will reach western Washington Wednesday and help drive the hot temperatures…