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Weather Eye: Scattered showers today lead into chance for drier days

By Patrick Timm
Published: April 23, 2019, 6:00am

After downpours Friday, it cleared Saturday and we warmed into the mid-60s. Easter was pleasant, just a tad cooler at 63, which is the average high temperature for mid-April. Monday was warmer ahead of a weak cold front. We got to 67 in Vancouver.

While it was raining all day north of Clark County Monday, precipitation moved south, with light rain around the evening commute. This moisture will hang around today with widely scattered showers ending tonight.

Wednesday through the weekend looks nice with a slight chance of showers Friday through Sunday in Western Washington. It could remain dry locally until later Sunday. I have said before April is a standalone month. It doesn’t conform to expectations. A month with a mind of its own. This has been noted through history. Here is a collection of these observations.

T.S. Elliot: “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring spring roots with rain.”

Byron Caldwell Smith: “Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.”

Sitting Bull: “Behold my friends, the spring is home, the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of their love.”

Susan Coolidge: “Every tear is answered by a blossom, every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April blooms upon the breezes toss them, April knows her own, and is content.”

A musing here and a musing there, April’s weather is everywhere.

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