As promised, let’s review some rainfall totals from April from your friends and neighbors: Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 4.52 inches; Tyler Mode, Battle Ground, 3.17 inches; Bob Starr, Cougar, 4.94 inches; Phil Delany, Dole Valley, 5.1 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lake Shore, 1.57 inches; Pete Conrad near Tukes Mountain, 2.76 inches; Merle Moore, 2 miles west of Yacolt, 4.42 inches; Dave Campbell, 1 mile west of Heisson, 2.97 inches; Judy Darke, Felida, 1.78 inches; Larry Lebsack, Barberton, 2.48 inches; Bob Mode, Minnehaha, 1.87 inches; Murphy Dennis, near Clark County Rifles, 4.71 inches; Ellen Smart, Ridgefield, 2.30 inches; Tom Dixon, Amboy, 3.9 inches; Irving St. Germain, Prune Hill, 2.82 inches; Gary Collins, Brush Prairie, 3.41 inches; Jim Knoll, Five Corners, 2.55 inches; Dan Hein, Camas, 3.26 inches; and our friend Roland Dersken, from the Vancouver up north, with 2.09 inches. I measured 1.64 inches here in Salmon Creek.
Rainfall Monday and Tuesday brought my May total to 1 inch here in Salmon Creek. More showers followed Wednesday. Still a chance for showers today and only a very small chance Friday through the weekend. The Hazel Dell Parade of Bands looks right now that it should fare well, with only a 20 percent of showers and temperatures right around 60 degrees.
There always seems to be a fly in the ointment, so to speak, whenever we have these upper-level low pressure systems drop down over us and then get cut off from the main jet stream. They then meander around and where she stops, no one knows.
Makes for a tricky forecast. Much of our rain this week came from wrap-around moisture moving from east to west.
