We are down the home stretch of June and the weather will not disappoint us. Fair skies are forecast all week and into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. There will at times be some marine air infiltration causing various amounts of morning clouds.
Temperatures will generally be 75 to 85 degrees depending on the marine air that seeps inland from the ocean beaches. Even at the coast, it will be pleasant with sunny skies and perhaps some days with low clouds breaking up in the afternoon. Winds should be from the fair-weather direction — the northwest.
The monthly rainfall total of 1.45 inches — a little less than a half-inch below aerage — will remain the final for the month unless we get a surprise by midnight Thursday. Our average mean temperature as of Saturday afternoon was 64 degrees, 1 degree above normal. We will end up warmer and drier than average.
The weak front that moved inland Thursday had enough oomph to cause a few frog stranglers like I mentioned here Thursday. Downtown Vancouver received two-thirds inch of rain. Outlying areas had more than an inch. There were lightning strikes and small hail embedded in those showers. That was a fitting little storm during Lightning Awareness Week.
