Pushing 60 Saturday, then cooling off for Easter Sunday with showers back in the forecast

Name: Warm Saturday before showers move in
Uploaded: 2021-04-02T19:06:22-07:00
Description: Q13 Forecaster Erin Mayovsky has your Easter weekend forecast.

Warm Saturday before showers move in

Q13 Forecaster Erin Mayovsky has your Easter weekend forecast.

SEATTLE - Happy Friday! We made it to the weekend!

Tonight, skies are mostly cloudy with temperatures dropping into the mid to upper 30s to near 40 for Seattle.

Saturday highs climb into the upper 50s to low 60s. Areas to the north will be near average at 56 with Seattle and locations to the south and east slightly warmer in the low 60s. We're going with 60 for Seattle, but just farther down the I-5 corridor places like Olympia could push into the low 60s.

Our ridge, that's keeping us dry will continue to break down opening the door for the next weather system to drop in from the NW Saturday night. Showers will fall first for the Coast, the Islands, and North Sound and then eventually overnight fill into Puget Sound by early Sunday morning. Right now, models have showers backing off by 8 a.m. for a dry break before a few showers pop back up by mid-day.

Here's a look at a few time periods between Saturday and Sunday. First, 11:30 p.m. Saturday.

Rain hangs on through the overnight hours. Here's Sunday at 4 a.m.

And by Sunday at 8 a.m. models have us taking a break from shower activity.

But just after the lunch hour showers return. Here's 1:30m Sunday.

Showers will wrap up late evening and skies will continue to clear out.

Not only will we be showery at times on Easter Sunday temperatures will cool off quite a bit. The Central Sound may only warm into the upper 40s. And again, normal for April 4th is 57... so some of us could be 10+ degrees below average! But don't worry we do rebound with more Spring sunshine as we start the work week!