Despite a batch of showers and thundershowers, some quite heavy, Vancouver is still nearly an inch below average in the rainfall department. Meanwhile, those sunny hot April days that preceded today pushed our average mean temperature to 6 degrees above average so far this month — warmest on record for some.
Today, we see showers and maybe another thunder boomer here and there. Temperatures will fall once again below normal for the next couple of days, with snow showers dropping down below pass levels at times. The real April weather is back.
The plan is to end the last few days of April on a warmer, drier note. May 1 is next Sunday. I think that with all the moisture the previous six months and the warm — and let’s call it hot — weather this month, many of those May flowers are already showing their colors, for sure.
We were treated to a nice light show Thursday evening as a band of thunderstorms moved northward up the Willamette Valley. Heavy rains, frequent lightning and the roaring thunder kept some from their usual nocturnal slumber. I had a few reports of hail and gusty winds. Vancouver had nearly one-half inch of rain from those showers and others up to 1 inch.
