Those two sunny days Sunday and Monday were enjoyable, well if you were out of the wind and cold. Regardless, it was pleasant to the eyes to look at the clear blue skies and sunshine above. It was so clear one could see Mount Rainier to our north. Unfortunately, as the wind goes we will see once again an inversion setting in with warm air aloft and cooler air at the surface.
It will be dry so I doubt we will get fog today, but the atmosphere will be rather stagnant until the current high pressure over us moves eastward, and we get some refreshing winds off the ocean. Of course, that will usher in some precipitation as well by Friday. Yep, rain is back in the forecast.
It was cold early Monday morning with Vancouver dipping to 17 degrees, which is way below average but still far below the record of 7 degrees set in that cold winter of 1980. One cold spot I could find here in Clark County was 12 degrees in Dole Valley and another weather station near Hockinson and Brush Prairie. The coldest I found in Washington was 12 degrees below zero at Wauconda Ranch in Okanogan County. In Idaho, it was 32 degrees below zero at Idaho Falls, which by the way was their coldest temperature since Feb. 1, 1985.
One of the coldest and snowiest winters here in Clark County was the winter of 1949-50. On this day in 1950, Vancouver measured 13 inches of snow. I don’t foresee any arctic cold and copious amounts of snow in the next week or so, but we’ll wait and see what the groundhog says on Thursday. Six more weeks of winter?
