Looking skyward today it appears a tad bit damp, as showers were in the forecast. We may have a dry day Wednesday but then a period of wet weather finally arrives. This unsettled weather will continue through the weekend and beyond. There is a fetch of moisture streaming off Hawaii and some of this may be entrained in the weather pattern, if so, we could get some moderate rain and unfortunately, possible rain in the mountains, except the higher slopes.
We’ll see on that one. The moisture arriving Thursday has cooler air aloft so some light snow on the mountains most likely. About time the weather pattern changes. After all, through 4 p.m. Monday Vancouver only had .09 of an inch in the rain gauge for the month. That is 1.30 inches below average.
The only downside of the nice dry weather so far is we may have to endure a period of rains in order to catch up. But we are used to that here and as I say, “normal” is just an average of extremes. So, we tread lightly into the second week of December. No snow in the lowlands on the horizon but colder air will be building to the far north.
There is an old 19th century saying, “The moon and the weather may change together, but the change of the moon does not change our weather. If we’d had no moon at all and that may seem strange, we still should have weather that’s subject to change.”
