Oh, I love the sunshine in wintertime. Well, it’s not winter quite yet, but regardless, I enjoy the sunshine in late autumn as well.
The easterly winds died down Wednesday, which made it more bearable to be outside, but one could still feel a chill in the air. The sun’s angle is so low now, it is a struggle to feel penetrating warmth.
The early-morning low Wednesday in Vancouver was 30 degrees, the first official freeze of the season. Lows were well into the 20s in urban and outlying areas. I had one report of 22 degrees near Moulton Falls. There was plenty of frost on the remaining pumpkins lying around. I checked the record low for Wednesday, and surprisingly, we were only 3 degrees shy of tying the record of 27 degrees set in 1982.
We’ll keep freezing temperatures out of the forecast tonight through early Saturday as a weak weather system slides by to our south. We will receive clouds and a chance of light rain or showers. Any rainfall would be on the scant side. Outside of that, we are back into sunny skies through next Wednesday, from what I could see as I wrote this column Wednesday evening.
