We continue to skip along with fair weather each day with some days near normal temperature-wise and others slightly below. Hopscotch weather I say. Today a large dose of marine air is forecast to move up the Columbia from the coast and we most likely remain in the 70s after morning clouds. Then Friday and Saturday we bounce back near normal in the low 80s. My weather complaint email box is empty.
I must mention by next Tuesday several models bring us a good dousing of rain, maybe a quarter-inch or more from yet another weather system moving through southern British Columbia. That is a ways out but something to keep a weather eye on. My garden would quickly soak up whatever falls.
It appears now July will go into the record books as having a warm first half and a somewhat cooler last half of the month. June was the opposite, with cooler weather the first half and warmer weather the last half. Topsy turvy. That’s what keeps our weather interesting and a challenge to weather forecasters at the same time.
Wildfire smoke — and there is plenty of it east of the mountains, especially in Oregon — is being kept to our east with a nice westerly flow of winds. Thank goodness. There are many wildfires in British Columbia and if we were to go into a persistent northerly flow, we would be experiencing smoke both in upper and lower levels of the atmosphere. The trough of low pressure that cooled us down this week has moved through southern Canada, suppressing those fires. With another low on its heels late in the weekend will also help greatly. Fingers crossed.
