Welcome to the first day of October and we will be greeted with some beautiful sunshine and mild temperatures. That is after a chilly morning with frost expected in many areas away from the city core. Monday morning Vancouver recorded a low of 37 degrees but many reports in outlying locations such as Battle Ground had frost and 32 degrees.
I expect some locations dropped below the freezing mark if winds were calm overnight. Boy, it sure felt like winter over the weekend, didn’t it? Vancouver’s high temperature on Sunday was only 51 degree, which was a new record minimum high temperature, the old record was 54 degrees in 1979. This also tied the coolest high for any day in September which was 51 degrees on September 30, 1919.
So, Sunday was the coldest September day in the last 100 years. The weather pattern was a classic wintertime event that if it had been a couple months farther into the year, we would have been talking snow for low elevations and subfreezing temperatures.
While it was rain here in the low elevations, it did snow in Eastern Washington in Ritzville and Spokane. Montana got hammered on the east slopes of the Rockies with snow drifting to four feet.
