If you can get into the Willamette valley, you're usually golden for VFR all the way to Portland, and possibly Seattle. The overcast does come down pretty low but it's often totally flyable underneath in legal VMC. North of Portland it can be a little trickier but I-5 doesn't really cross any serious terrain between here and there.

Weather could be anything, from CAVU to neverending fog and rain. It's the luck of the draw in spring time. If I recall we had some nice days in April but the sum precip was 1.69" according to Weather Underground. That's not much, but it doesn't take hard precip to be unflyable. In the Pacific Northwest we get these light drizzle days that are IMC to the ground. I call it "The Dagobah System."

Looks like its just going to be a matter seeing the weather and deciding.


Now from what I have seen, the weather gets better in the afternoons, is this the normal weather pattern?

motoadve wrote:Now from what I have seen, the weather gets better in the afternoons, is this the normal weather pattern?

Not necessarily. That may be true on some colder high pressure days with valley fog burning off.