The weather this weekend was kind of a mixed bag, depending on where you were. Along the coast it rained most of Saturday, about three-quarters of an inch as of 5 p.m. Inland and locally, we had a few scattered showers but generally less than a tenth of an inch by 5 p.m.
A complicated low pressure system spinning offshore is moving east. Part of it will drop southward and swings inland or over southern Oregon and northern California.
We’ll remain under the gun all week with bouts of rain and showers, and continued cool weather. We may have a dry day Thursday, but the timing of the moist impulses is difficult to pin down at this point. Just call it typical fall weather in the great Northwest,
As we discussed last week, September was most likely going into the record books as a dry and cool month just like in 2015. Sure enough, rainfall totaled 1.15 inches here in Vancouver, 0.41 inch below average. The average men temperature was 61.8 degrees, 1.8 degrees below normal.