Pleasant weather continues as we waltz into the last month of summer, and we anticipate what August may bring us. More of the same except, however, we bump the high temperatures from the comfortable and seasonal 80-85 range into the 85- to 90-degree range. How’s that? Kinda from warm to hot for some of us.
Still no excessive heat at this point as that heat dome to our southwest teases us in the Pacific Northwest with an ever so slight shift to the northwest. I don’t see on any forecast models right now that hot high pressure is coming close enough to engulf us with staggering temperatures. Imagine a pitcher in baseball watching out of his peripheral the first base runner taking a huge lead off the base while he decides what pitch to throw. Yep. We keep watching that hot stuff.
July ends with only a trace of rain in the record book, which sometimes happens. The average mean temperature is 2.9 degrees above normal, warm but nothing noteworthy. July and August are indeed our warmest months of the year. On Thursday we will check and see if high temperatures appear to be more than a couple of degrees higher than 90 degrees as the first weekend of the Clark County Fair is off and running. I would say typically with most years afternoon temperatures are on the warm to hot side and 85-90 would be expected.
I don’t see rain any time soon, but it may be possible in the second week of August we could see some instability and a thunderstorm or rain showers. That is out a ways so no need to fret currently.
