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Weather Eye: Keep sweatshirts, rain jackets close for nuisance rain

By Patrick Timm
Published: April 27, 2015, 5:00pm

Back-to-back Mondays with pleasant temperatures, sunny skies and highs at or near 80 degrees around the area. We will certainly take that with no regrets. Today, however, it is back to the sweatshirts and maybe rain jackets as a cold trough of low pressure slides in.

I don’t expect heavy rain, but that kind of nuisance stuff: a period of steady rain and then scattered showers. Although we will maintain a westerly flow all week, other weather systems out in the Pacific are slated to go by to our north, so after Wednesday it may be a safe bet we remain dry.

That is always subject to change, as it wouldn’t take much for one system to drop far enough south to give us some drips and drizzle. The weekend wasn’t all that bad; the chance of showers Saturday fizzled out, and we were treated to some fair weather. At the coast, skies were clear and sunny. A nice day.

A warm front moved through Sunday, but mostly clouds and sprinkles were the fashion of the day. Not a washout. We did manage a few hundredths of an inch, but that was all.

I was looking at the monthly statistics for Vancouver, and it isn’t looking good in the rain department. On Monday, we were running an inch below average, and with some light rain today — maybe a tenth to a quarter of an inch — I don’t see how we could notch things up to normal.

Despite a few warm and sunny days, April is still running about one degree below normal for the average mean temperature. Temperature extremes for the month so far are a high of 80 degrees April 20 and a low of 33 degrees April 15. There was some scattered frost over the weekend in the outlying areas of Clark County.

Temperatures at 4 p.m. Monday were in the mid-50s along the coast and 81 degrees at Kelso. Vancouver was basking in the sun at 79 degrees.


Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at http://patricktimm.com

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