Amazing how a couple days with changeable weather can make a difference. As the ice melted Christmas Day we were still running over an inch of rain below average. Then came the deluge the day after Christmas where a record 2.60 inches of rain fell in downtown Vancouver. And more in other areas of the county. That is why many roadways and intersections were flooded.
Now as of midday Wednesday, Vancouver had 6.78 inches of rain in the gauge. Today will see perhaps another inch in the tally by the time the current rainstorm departs Friday. The final day of 2022, Saturday, may be more dry than wet and New Year’s Day is scheduled to be mostly dry. Can’t rule out a shower or two the way the atmosphere has been behaving.
After high temperatures in the mid-20s prior to Christmas, Tuesday we recorded a balmy 56 degrees, the only high temperature this month in the 50s. That was mild but far from the record 62 degrees in 1980. Our normal high is only 46 degrees. The month so far is over three degrees below average temperature-wise.
Last year about this time, we were having snow flurries and light accumulations. Snow depths varied from an inch or two in the lowlands of Clark County, to 8 – 15 inches in our foothills above 1,000 feet. Oh, the ways of weather. After the rain today and showers Friday, as I mentioned earlier, the weekend will bring us a brief interlude in the progressions of storms across the Pacific.
