Not much change today in the weather department. What we have had all week will continue through Saturday. The next rain should be on Sunday, maybe later in the day.
Vancouver’s low Wednesday morning was 26 degrees. Coupled with freezing fog, it was brutal.
Areas east of I-205 toward Camas and Washougal had east winds that kept the low temperatures warmer, but add in the wind chill and it felt colder. Further up the Gorge, winds were gusting to 75 mph or better; they will do so today as well.
Those of us on the west side were socked in with freezing fog and slippery pavement. Skies cleared once again after the lunch hour. The sunshine was nice, but let me tell you, it was still chilly.
A weather system will slide down from the north and bring some rain later Sunday through Monday. Snow will fall in the mountains, eventually reaching down to 1,500 feet or so. So, we trade a sunny chill for a wet chill. Yuck.
No worries, however: Weather charts indicate that high pressure will build Tuesday and Wednesday for a few days of dry weather, with similar conditions as we have had. But it will not last as long as our current dry spell; extended charts show more rain as February moves along.
Last year on Jan. 26, we had a light snowfall. I wrote this in my column: “All it takes is to have a few snowflakes fall from the sky and we get a flurry of activity. Kids don their jackets and mittens and run outside. They wait for a thin ground cover to roll snowballs and raise their faces upward, catching those elusive snowflakes in their mouth. TV stations send their newly hired reporters outside to head for the hills for live reports. Weather geeks flood social media with observations and meteorological chatter. Older residents walk to the window and look outside, reminiscing of their younger days. Dogs are let outside in the yard and run feverishly in circles, chasing the falling snowflakes. Nature teased most of us in the lowlands with several hours of snowfall but little if any accumulation.”
No snow flurries in our forecast in the short term.
