It will be a close one Friday. Close by how much it rains. Vancouver has a total of .28 of an inch so far in April and the record dry month is .39 of an inch. Showers are headed our way Friday, but it is difficult to see any forecast models bringing us more than a tenth of an inch before midnight. If so, we have a new all-time dry April.
Us weather geeks will be watching closely. I mean we have gone this far and may as well break a long-standing record at this point, right? The weekend once again looks unsettled with an onshore flow of air but to tell you the truth, I just don’t see much in the way of rainfall for the first week or two of May. Some showers yeah, but no widespread downpours that can do us some good.
If the high clouds stay thin enough today, we rise in the upper 70s close to 80. If thicker clouds develop, then low- to mid-70s. Pleasant any way you slice it. We had 72 degrees Wednesday. I see the creeks and streams draining the snowpack off Mount Hood are filling with cold and rushing water. With hardly any snow on the way for at least the higher peaks, the spring thaw is upon us.
I had a couple readers contact me saying I forgot to mention the surprise snowfall decades ago out in the Camas area. I do remember that well as I lived in Portland, and we even had an inch or 2 of wet snow that threatened to cancel school. That event was on April 22, 1961. Gosh I was still a young weather watcher in elementary school. I was sent a picture of the snowfall on Garfield Street in Camas.
