Despite four days now this month with highs at 80 degrees or warmer, Vancouver is still running 1.5 degrees below average on the temperatures, mainly due to all the clouds the first week of the month.
Speaking of clouds, as discussed the other day, a weak weather system will be moving north overnight into Friday morning so we will see increasing clouds later today. In turn, high temperatures will drop a few degrees near 80 today and in the 70s.
That leads us to a warmup over the weekend and the hot weather will pay us a short visit. As of right now I foresee highs Sunday in the mid- to upper 80s and around 90 degrees or so plus or minus on Monday and Tuesday. If the warm air mass to our south builds further north then we could be in the really “hot” category, well into the 90s.
A line from my column 20 years ago on this day: “I certainly do not want to complain about the beautiful weather yesterday, but while sitting out on my deck that wind was downright nasty. My deck faces the north and trying to read the newspaper with a 30-mph wind is almost impossible. And even though it was nearly 80 at the time, I had a blanket around me due to the wind chill. Oh well, life in the Northwest.”
