A taste of summer we will enjoy the next few days as the thermometer peaks in the low 80s. Our average high temperature is now 70 degrees, so above average coming up. Also, fewer morning clouds, maybe none all.
Forecast charts indicate another downturn next week, beginning Sunday. This will increase our chances for showers and lots of clouds like we had last week and early this week. Earlier I was thinking no rain the rest of the month, but forecast models say a chance of rain or drizzle sometime Sunday. But we’ll see how that pans out. If we did get any before the strike of midnight it wouldn’t be much. If no rain is measured the rest of the month it will be one of the driest Mays on record. For Portland it would be the fifth-driest May.
Do you remember the weather one year ago today? Well, it was lousy. It rained all day and reached only 64 degrees for a high. A third of an inch of rain fell in the rain bucket. The next day a trace was measured but skies cleared late and the last two days of the month were sunny and warm with highs in the mid-70s. Oh what a year can do.
Looking at the 3 p.m. temperatures around the Northwest on Wednesday, Seattle was 75 degrees and Vancouver only 72 degrees. Normally that would be the other way around. Central and Eastern Washington were in the 80s. Good weather to grow those watermelons.
