Weather Eye: Nature’s mix of tricks continues in this unusual start to July

How do you like our interlude from summer weather? Clouds, showers, wind and maybe scattered thunderstorms today have been in nature’s mix of tricks.

Our normal area of high pressure off the coast has been replaced by a large trough of low pressure that shows no signs of rapid movement. As the current low leaves our area Monday or Tuesday, another disturbance drops into the trough, but as I look at things Saturday afternoon, it may remain to our north and just keep a chance of showers in the forecast.

We may escape with just some clouds and temperatures near seasonal averages Tuesday through Saturday.

I thought we might get more rain that what accumulated in the official rain gauge for Vancouver. As of Saturday afternoon, about a quarter inch of rain has fallen in three days, but another band of rain was aiming toward Clark County as I was writing this column.