As of 4 p.m. Friday, Vancouver had reached only 80 degrees — above average, but nowhere what we experienced three years ago.
On June 28, 2021, Vancouver reached its highest-ever recorded temperature: 115 degrees. That is 35 degrees hotter than Friday’s late-afternoon temperatures.
That 115-degree high was preceded by two other records. On June 26, 2021, Vancouver reached 108 degrees. The next day, it peaked at 112 degrees. I remember the computer models indicating even warmer weather on June 28. I think we all missed that forecast only because it was so unbelievable.
Thank goodness we do not foresee anything even close to that happening in the near future, but it will remain in our memories forever.
Vancouver’s 115 degrees is the warmest temperature ever recorded in Western Washington. However, in Oregon, Salem’s 117 degrees on the same day is the highest temperature ever recorded west of the Cascades in the entire Pacific Northwest.
For the next five or six days, we will have daytime highs around 80 degrees, with mostly sunny skies. We’ll see light and pleasant winds mainly from the north to northwest. Rain will stay well to our north.
Thursday’s thick marine clouds allowed light drizzle or rain to fall around the county. Vancouver officially measured .01 of an inch. Other locations were a tenth of an inch or less, mainly near the foothills.
June will go into the record books for Vancouver as a warmer- and drier-than-average month.
