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Weather Eye: Expect spurts of showers and even real rain through a cool week

By Patrick Timmm
Published: October 2, 2016, 6:05am

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.

We’ll see what your friends and neighbors measured as last month’s rainfall tally comes in in the near future.

I was looking at past Octobers and found that in 2014, it was wet. Oct. 1, 2014, was a nice day at 68 degrees. We went 10 more days in the 70s and 80s until the middle of the month, when things went downhill quickly. The last half of the month was much cooler than average and we totaled 6.03 inches of rain.

I believe this month will be drier than 2014, but cool air from the north may chill most of the month. Looking at a few web cams Saturday, I saw snow falling on the upper slopes of Mount Hood and also Mounts Baker and Rainier.


Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at http://patricktimm.com

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