It was hot Friday and Saturday at the Clark County Fair, with afternoon temperatures in the 90s. On Friday, we hit 97 degrees, the highest temperature this summer. It wasn’t the hottest this year — we had a high of 98 degrees on June 5, when it was still officially spring.
Saturday’s high as of 4 p.m. was 93 degrees — cooler, but still sweltering for most. The overnight low was 62 degrees in Vancouver, but it didn’t feel like that. At midnight, it was still 74 degrees. The air conditioners were running just about everywhere, except maybe in the outlying areas of the county, where temperatures dipped into the 50s away from the city heat island.
If you had enough of the recent heat wave, perhaps you went to the coast. Fog and low clouds hugged the beach line until the afternoon and then moved inland several miles. That penetration will reach Clark County early today and give us some relief, back into the more comfortable 80s.
We will have a repeat through about Wednesday with an onshore flow of ocean air keeping our highs in the low to mid-80s. Forecast charts hint of 90-degree weather Thursday through Saturday.
