Weather Eye: Sun is welcome but also fleeting

Well that sure didn’t take long to return to a cool, cloudy and somewhat wet day Monday, did it? We managed to get two dry days over the weekend without measurable rain, although a trace was reported in Vancouver just before midnight Sunday.

The other milestone is that we soared to a 66-degree high on Easter Sunday, the warmest day since Nov. 10. I placed two gold starts on the calendar for that one. Despite our temperatures mingling with 60 degrees, overall the April average mean temperature for Vancouver is still about 1 degree below normal.

With just under 2 inches in the rain gauge for the month as of Monday afternoon, we are also running above average in that department. I got to tell you, with all this rain this past season and the current April showers, look out in May for an explosion that should rock our neck of the woods with flower blossoms.

I was having brunch Sunday along the Columbia River and it is still running high and murky. Watching several tugboats pushing barges upriver, they barely made it under the structure without a bridge lift.