09/23/08 Harvest Weather

Harvest Weather. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report. The harvest moon is waning and there is beginning to be a bit of a nip in the air each evening. As fall arrives, let's see what the weatherman has in store for us. Here's staff meteorologist, Tim Creek. CREEK: I think the outlook for the month of October calls for average temperatures and precipitation. The high pressure we've seen through much of the month of September is going to break down I anticipate sometime during that first week of October and set us up for a more active westerly jet stream into the region for much of the month. So I would say that we are looking for a generally normal type of situation through the month of October. Usually we hear about some kind of offshore weather that affects us. CREEK: I don't see or have heard of any La Nina's, el Nino's or whatever there is out there. Of course it seems like every year we have to have some kind of effect that explains what is going on in the weather, it can never just be a normal weather pattern. But no, I haven't heard of any el Nino's or La Nina's that is supposed to skew our winter weather. I do anticipate as we go through even the month of November that we are going to see pretty close to typical average conditions. I don't see any extremes in terms of colder than normal, wetter than normal or warmer than normal weather through November as well. That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.