Unlike October, November arrived with clouds and showers and more of those gusty easterly winds. The combination made it feel more like winter than autumn. Vancouver’s high Monday reached 50, well below the average of 58. Could have been worse I guess, take Nov. 1, 1935, when the thermometer could only reach 40.
Rainfall as of 5 p.m. Monday measured .17 of an inch, while .15 of an inch is the average for the day. October went into the record books with 3.73 inches in Vancouver. The average is 3.41 inches. That helped catch us up, but Vancouver is still running about 3 inches below average for the year.
A warm front swings mainly to our north today but we could see some drizzle or light rain before the atmosphere dries out tonight and early Wednesday. The next front arrives late Wednesday and the rest of the week into the weekend. I will use active or unsettled to paint the forecast.
November is usually the wettest month of the year. Daily or every-other-day rains are usual. If we get clearing at night, fog hangs in the wings. Those east winds blew over the weekend and into Monday. Wind gusts of 35-40 mph were common east of Interstate 205, and in the Gorge were in the 45-65 mph range. Our first episode of easterly winds this fall was caused by a cold, dry air mass that moved down from Canada well to our east.
