After a couple of fall-like days with rain showers and clearing periods, early Friday morning felt more like winter. Low temperatures dipped into the 30s in the outlying areas with reports of some light frost. Clouds increased and light rain fell in the northern half of the county. In La Center early Friday it was only 43 degrees with light rain. That is December weather folks.
The rain hadn’t made it to the official gauge in Vancouver as the main energy associated with a weak to moderate atmospheric river is focused on northern Washington. It begins to drop southward on Sunday and by later Sunday it should be raining across the entire county. Showers may continue Monday. The next chance of dry weather is Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday’s weather could go either way from dry or wet. Stay tuned.
Looking at Vancouver’s weather records so far in October, we are still running about 1 inch of rain below average and the mean temperature is 2 degrees above normal. So, a dry and warm month at this point. We’ll see how much rain we get in the next week or so to catch up to normal.
All in all, it has been a pleasant fall season so far and I haven’t heard any complaints. I had to mildly adjust to wearing my hooded jacket again and utilizing my heated seats and steering wheel in my car.
