Vancouver reached 101 degrees on Tuesday, which was a new record high for the date. The old record was 100 degrees set in 2020 so not long ago. It was also our first temperature this summer at or above 100 degrees. More on the way.
We expect it to be around 100 degrees today through Saturday. If we luck out, a cooler trough of low pressure may induce some cooler air Saturday and keep us closer to 90 degrees. Right now, as I write this Wednesday afternoon, it appears to be a 20 to 40 percent chance.
Regardless if it isn’t 100 degrees, it will be in the 90s Saturday and Sunday. Next week looks pleasant with morning clouds, afternoon sunshine and highs in the 80s. Let’s hope the weather pattern goes along with the forecast models.
On this date in 2009 we recorded a high of 106 degrees, a new record for Vancouver. The next day on July 29 it soared to 108 degrees, which was our all-time high in the record books. June of last year knocked that one out with 115 degrees.
Last year we only reached a high of 96 degrees for the entire month of July. We certainly surpassed last year quickly, didn’t we? I might mention that the hot month of July 2009, with a record 108 degrees, had an average mean temperature 10 degrees above normal.
Our overnight lows in our main urban areas are only dropping into the low to mid-60s overnight, which gives it a good running start in the morning when the sun rises. That equals a hot day for sure.
While watching the extreme hot weather the past several weeks in the other parts of our country, I was wondering if any of that would branch off and move our way. For a while it seemed unlikely but then it began to move westward. And here it is.
The hottest in either Washington or Oregon I could find for Tuesday was 111 degrees in The Dalles, Ore. That is the official reading. But wait. Did you know the actual weather station is across the river in our state at the airport in Dallesport? Close enough, I guess.
Keep cool.
