April weather on the central Oregon coast was dry. Maybe even very dry. But nice.
Some longtime Yachats-area weather watchers for Lincoln Chronicle say it’s one of the driest they’ve recorded.
Jim Adler, who lives three miles up the Yachats River valley, measured 4.29 inches of rain in April, just about half of his 16-year average and second only to his driest April measurement of 1.92 inches in 2021. Adler’s April average is 8.26 inches — but he still has 40.04 inches of rain for the first four months of 2025.
Eight miles up the Yachats River valley, Bob Williams measured 4.95 inches of rain in April – but only .22 inches between April 12 and April 30. Still, his year-to-date total is 52.10 inches – twice the total of measurements in Yachats.
At the Yachats wastewater treatment plant, staff there recorded 2.57 inches of rain in April for a four-month total of 25.12 inches.
Just a block away, weather watcher Adam Altson recorded 3.22 inches of rain in April for a 2025 total of 26.5 inches.
“The other numbers for the month – high and low temperatures, average and high wind speeds — were also pretty boring, all around the averages,” Altson said. “A very uneventful month.”
Julie Bailey, who lives at the 200-foot level of Horizon Hill, recorded 3.76 inches of rain in April and has 34.63 for the year. Bailey said there were 18 days no rain and almost half of her month’s total — 1.64 inches – fell on April 6.
Don Tucker, who lives two miles north of Yachats, measured 3.86 inches of rain in April and has 33.07 inches for the year. Over 19 years of record-keeping, Tucker’s average April rainfall is 6.11 inches. His four-month average over all those years is 34.03 inches.
“All in all, a pretty average April,” Tucker said.
That’s OK, it was nice to be average.
