Wednesday’s weather was certainly a fluke, a most desirable one though. Weak easterly winds broke our inversion, brought warm air aloft over the metro area for highs in the upper 60s.
Don’t get used to that, however, as things will cool off again and any east winds will cease shortly and we go back into the inversion stuff. Computer models are having difficulty trying to figure how long that massive high pressure off the coast will hang around.
Models try to break it down next week for a chance of rain as storms drop either from the north or up from the south in a couple cases. I think, however, we’ll stay mostly high and dry for a while.
In Seattle they have had their driest dry weather streak in the past 74 years of records for late October and early November. The last time it was this dry was in 1945. Impressive? I say so.
The temperature in Vancouver at 3 p.m. Wednesday was 67 degrees and was the high for the day, close to the record high of 69 degrees set in 1949. Impressive? Yes indeed.
At least if we can’t get back to normal with rain and wind, may as well set some kind of record, and warm sunshine is best in November. As skies cleared Wednesday you may have seen Mount Hood and its bare slopes. It would be icing on the cake if by some miracle it was knee deep in snow for Thanksgiving. Time is flying by. Time for the snow dances.
Vancouver did have the honors Wednesday of being the warmest in the Evergreen State.
We will study the forecast charts the next few days and keep our usual weather eye out for any big changes. That we will discuss on Sunday. It will be dry this weekend as most moisture slides across southern British Columbia; only a slight chance of a rain shower Sunday. Good time to get holiday lights up and ready. You may regret it if you wait until the cold rains return.
