Can you believe we had a dry day Monday? That was the first day since New Year’s Day that we had nothing measurable in the rain gauge here in Vancouver. Did you like it? Well, then you will like the drier weather pattern shaping up.
Of course, in wintertime when we trade the rain for usually much-needed dry weather, the temperature does an about face and lowers to seasonal levels or below. That means highs in the 40s and lows in the 30s and possibly 20s. This won’t happen quickly as we have another weather system arriving late tonight and on Wednesday. High pressure builds over us and Thursday and Friday will be dry for the most part. A couple of weak storms brush us over the weekend for a chance of showers or light rain but amounts if any will be light and not bothersome. Next week looks mainly dry as we endure a cooler northerly flow. It will be cold in the mountains and if skies clear overnight it will be quite frosty. Those pesky east winds are a possibility next week. So, you ask, it gets cooler, any chance of snow here in the lowlands once colder air settles in? I sure wouldn’t venture that far out but we would have half of the ingredients for lowland snow, so stay tuned. I’m shaking my snow globe on my desk right now. I was at the coast Monday along with many locals who spent the three-day holiday there. It was wet with off-and-on rain showers, mainly on I should say. Briefly in between there were dozens of rainbows. I even saw a triple rainbow. I cannot recall the last time I observed so many rainbows, especially in January. The cameras were clicking away for sure on the Long Beach Peninsula.
Our local rainfall Monday totaled 2.70 inches so far this month. Compare that with San Francisco at 8.19 inches, Los Angeles, 5.49 inches and San Diego with 3.63 inches. Now you know where all our rain went the first half of the month.
As our daylight is getting longer and longer, the folks in Barrow, Alaska, are looking forward to one week from today their first sunrise after 65 days of darkness.
We’ll chat on Thursday.
