Weather Eye: April will begin quietly, but things change Sunday
The Columbian
Published: March 31, 2022, 6:00am
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Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at ptimmwriter@gmail.com.
Greetings on this last day of March. Today’s weather will certainly go out like a lamb, with basically quiet conditions: some cloudiness, some sunshine and calm winds.
We are still under a cool air mass, so the chance of another 60-degree-plus day is unlikely, but the weather can play tricks on us.
Friday will be basically dry, at least during the daylight hours. A weather system slides by to our north, and a couple of light rain showers are possible mainly to our north. After that, Saturday looks partly sunny.
The big change happens on Sunday, with a decent storm moving through and another tagging along behind. We’ll see rain Sunday through Tuesday before we have a dry day in midweek and another 60-degree high temperature.
April will open with a couple of dry days and then, most likely, unload an inch of rain locally and 2 or 3 inches at the coast and in the mountains. It will be whiteout conditions in the higher Cascades, with heavy snow. It will be quite windy along the ocean beaches and blustery here in Clark County.
The Sunday-through-Tuesday timeframe looks like a borrowed act from March, I’d say. Speaking of March, that lion that often appears was for the most part missing in action, with rainfall over 1 inch below normal.
Climate experts are predicting a cool and wet month for April, which translates into plenty of those spring showers — however, as mentioned above, there will be a great deal more than that in the short term.
The frogs will be happy — we will certainly hear that — and the slugs will be inching their way into the garden patch.
March weather stirs nature out of its long winter sleep, but April weather certainly gets it up and running with towering cumulus clouds, showers, thunder and even hail. Sometimes it even wakes us up. I love April for all it brings.
Take care, and we will chat on Sunday amidst the storm clouds on the western horizon.
Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. ptimmwriter@gmail.com
