Several inches of snow fell overnight at Sunrise in the Mount Rainier National Park as seen on webcams Saturday. Not bad for early September. Boy, it seems like we jumped off a cliff from an never-ending summer into the depths of autumn below.
Temperatures have struggled to make it to the 70-degree mark, much less to seasonal normals. We have yet to manage a high temperature at or above the daily average since Aug. 28. A trio of 60s the past three days for highs. And that was mingled with lows in the 40s in many locations in Clark County.
That pesky upper-level low we have been talking about all week was well east of the local area Saturday afternoon. Scattered showers still developed with the afternoon heating (I use that term loosely, as the high was only 67 degrees).
The coast was the dry spot, with mostly sunny skies — plenty of dark cumulus clouds to the east of the beaches. A water spout was spotted on the Washington side of the Columbia River across from Astoria at 9:27 am. Saturday. The air aloft is still quite chilly.
