Weather Eye: Enjoy return to seasonal norms, sun’s reappearance

The clouds were thick enough to last all day Saturday except along the coast where it was mostly sunny, beautiful with blue skies and great kite-flying weather in the afternoon and evening hours.

It was not your typical June day with morning clouds that clear about noon and afternoon highs at 70 or higher. We will get closer to that scenario today and Monday. We will see some sunshine and warm back up to seasonal normals. Tuesday and Wednesday will be mostly sunny and warm in the mid- to high 70s.

Beyond midweek, forecast models are showing a cold trough of low pressure parking itself off our coast for more clouds and maybe showers. Could that be the typical Rose Festival low that haunts us most years?

I shared the other day that the official rainfall for Vancouver last month was 1.79 inches, below average. Our weather observer friend in Vancouver, B.C., Roland Derksen reports that the total rainfall amount for May was 5.30 inches. He adds, “Yep, that’s what it was! My third wettest May in 42 years, despite the warm dry pattern of the second half of the month.”