On Monday, we will think about our rainstorm over the weekend and surmise that it was fun while it lasted. But now we are past it.
We have a relatively pleasant week ahead, with mostly sunny skies and highs of about 70 on Monday, about 80 on Tuesday and in the 70s the remainder of the week.
The storm was indeed slow arriving and presented us with a beautiful day on Friday, with highs near 80 degrees and dry weather until close to the midnight hour. Even at 10 p.m. in Vancouver, it was in the low 70s while we waited for the cold front to arrive.
The rain was moderate to heavy at times, with Vancouver recording 1.21 inches as of 5 p.m. Saturday. That is the heaviest one-day amount since the deluge of .70 of an inch on June 13.
The last time we had over an inch of rain in Vancouver was Jan. 12, with 1.89 inches. Needless to say, these statistics are amazing.
Our foothill weather observers measured over 2 inches of rain. There was a flurry of talk on social media Saturday, with folks posting about the rain. What is usually so commonplace in these parts was not so this year. We normally reserve that kind of attention for when we get our first snowfall.
It was good that we had a burst of rain for many reasons, including dampening the wildfire season. It was unfortunately short-lived, however, and now we enter another warm and dry spell.
We’ll see no rain through Saturday, it appears. One weak weather system will slide by on Wednesday, but I think we’ll see only passing clouds obscuring parts of the blue sky at times.
Did you hear thunder at about 4 p.m. Saturday? It was enough to clear some football fields in a hurry. Thunderstorms were scattered about and were in the forecast for Saturday night and possibly today.
I noticed on web cams that some of the higher locations in the Cascades had heavy, wet snow falling.
