Friday’s weather was pleasant with high temperatures almost reaching 60 degrees at the official weather station in Vancouver. A few of you let me know you observed 60 degrees or a little above. We are on the right track. Friday’s high of 59 degrees was above the average and the low Friday morning was 32 degrees, below average. Above and below, it was OK with me. At least nothing was falling from the skies except filtered sunbeams.
Today we have storm number one with showers, breezy winds and cooler day time temperatures. Sunday, we have storm number two with the same conditions except I expect rainfall to be a bit heavier. And you know things run in three’s, don’t you? Yep, storm number three rolls inland Monday and Tuesday. Only rain here in the lowlands and snow in the mountains which will include the Cascade passes.
We are still on track after lingering showers end on Wednesday to receive a welcome dose of warmer high pressure with highs next Friday well into the 60s. The warm weather should last into the weekend next week but no promises on whether we reach 70 degrees. That would be crazy.
The best we could muster last year in March was 68 degrees on March 18 but the year before March 2022 had a high of 70 degrees on March 22. Looking back at the old records for Vancouver from 1896, I see we only reached 80 degrees twice, 80 degrees in 1903 and 83 degrees in 1930. Most of the warmest highs in March range from 65 to 70 degrees.
