We managed to enjoy another mostly warm and dry weather weekend continuing our long stretch of nice weekends. At least until about 5 p.m. or so when light rain began to fall on Sunday. Now as a disclaimer, there were a few sprinkles early Saturday morning but most of the daytime hours were pleasant.
Vancouver recorded 0.01 of an inch of rain early Saturday and Sunday we had 0.39 of an inch by midnight, making it the wettest one-day rainfall since June 2 when 0.63 of an inch fell. Another tenth of an inch was recorded by noon Monday, bringing Vancouver’s monthly total to 1.16 inches, which is nearly 1 inch below average.
We have some dry days before us beginning today lasting through Thursday. More rain arrives Friday and continues through the weekend, ending our string of fair weather weekends. Next week looks cool and wet so we may yet reach normal rainfall for the month then or perhaps surpass it. The higher Cascades will pick up more snow this weekend and into next week as the flow of the air will be coming down from the chilly Gulf of Alaska.
We managed to get blessed with fairly warm temperatures for mid- to late October. Saturday, we reached 71 degrees and Sunday, before those dark clouds arrived, 68 degrees. Our normal high for today is 61 degrees, with the warmest on record at 80 degrees way back in 1929. The coldest low temperature for Oct. 22 was 25 degrees in 1980.
