We finally managed to top the 1-inch mark in Vancouver with the monthly rain totals Monday. As of 5 p.m. 1.20 inches were in the rain gauge. That’s progress but still 1 1/2 inches below average. We will dry out later today with only widely scattered showers mainly over the hills. Then Friday and Saturday, as promised, will be warm and dry. By warm I mean in the 60- to 65-degree range. With luck, some neighborhoods could be in the upper 60s Saturday.
Good weekend to wash the car? Sure, Saturday will be great, but rain returns some time Sunday, lasting a few days. More cold air aloft will arrive with Sunday’s weather system with snow once again in the mountains. I expect our high temperatures next week to tumble into the 50s.
No extended warm and dry spell on the horizon yet. But no heavy rain either. I think the March tally of rain at the end of the month will remain below average. We’ll see.
There were a few heavy rain showers Wednesday here and there. One person from east county emailed me and said she saw it raining so heavily, “It was raining cats and dogs.” I haven’t used that phrase for a long time. I love frogs so I always called a heavy downpour a frog strangler. The dogs and cat saying was a Victorian-era idiom. Trying to discover the exact origin can be difficult, and some answers are too gruesome for this weatherman. I’ll stick with the frog idiom.
