Spring began on Sunday, but Monday’s weather was more like winter with overcast gray skies, rain and chilly temperatures. No surprise, as I have told you before about the behavior of March. Today if all goes well, the clouds should part and sunshine will shine upon us this afternoon and push the thermometer upward toward 70 degrees. We may or may not make it, but it’ll be close.
OK, so which pathway will our spring weather take the next three months? The Climate Prediction Center says we will have cooler than normal temperatures throughout April, May and June. With precipitation we stand an equal chance of seasonal averages, plus or minus. I consider June a summer month but OK.
Did Monday’s rainfall help us catch up to normal for the month? As of 5 p.m. Monday, Vancouver recorded about a third of an inch of rain, which helped but we still have about that much more to be “average” for the month. Of course, we have a week or so to go. In 2017 at this point in March, we had over 5 inches of rain and I called it “March muddiness.”
We may have to wait until this weekend to add to the monthly rainfall total. A weak weather system moves close by Wednesday but if anything does fall from the skies, it would be drizzle and uneventful. Then back to partly sunny skies Thursday and Friday with highs a little above seasonal averages around 60 degrees. More dry than wet the remainder of the week.
