11/10/06 End of month Weather

End of month weather & Pineapple Express. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report. Fall weather patterns in the Pacific Northwest are quite changeable. Heavy rains in Oregon and 70 degrees in the Columbia Basin. USDA's Chief meteorologist Brad Rippey takes a look at the next 2 weeks around the country. RIPPEY: The 8 to 14 day outlook for November 14 through 20 is calling for near to above normal temperatures and precipitation across much of the country. On terms of that rainfall two area are going to remain wet that probably don't need the moisture right now and that's the Pacific Northwest and Eastern corn belt. We are also looking for wet conditions in the Southeast which should be favorable for Georgia and Florida. Generally dry conditions though from the 14th to the 20th from Southern California to the southern plains. And the only area expecting cold weather during the 14th to the 20th would be the northern tier primarily across the northern Rockies and the northern plains. According to a spokesperson at the National Weather Service in Pendleton, moisture is moving into the region. NWS: The Pineapple Express is when you have a stream of moisture running basically from Hawaii all the way up to the coast of the United States and it kind of does a train of moisture bringing band after band of showers and rain into the Pacific Northwest. And when we get this we have a very, a relatively warm but very wet series of systems move through. It's both warm and wet. That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.