Weather Eye: Temperatures headed back into the 90s for the weekend

Temperatures this week have been hovering around the 80-degree mark — about average for this time of the year. There have also been some morning clouds here and there.

What looked like cooler weather for the weekend has vanished and we have highs slated for that 90-degree mark once again. At least that’s what I see looking at things Wednesday afternoon.

So far this month, the average mean temperature is at 74.9 degrees, nearly 8 degrees above average. Measurable rainfall for Vancouver stood at .04 of an inch, on the way toward one half inch below average. Not that we get that much rain in July anyway.

I was looking back at the high temperatures for the month and we only had one day below 80 degrees — 72 degrees on July 11. That was an odd one, with a forecast of clearing skies in the afternoon that never materialized.

With Wednesday’s high over 80 degrees, we had seven days in the 90s and seven days in the 80s. That 72 degrees was sandwiched in between. The only chance at this time of another high in the 70s in the next week or so may be today. We’ll see how many morning low clouds we get and how much cooling aloft as a weather system slides into British Columbia.

No one is complaining anyway this week; the weather has been most pleasant and enjoyable. I wish it would stay like this the rest of the summer.

Enjoy today and Friday before we start sweating again.

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