We finally got some rainfall which freshened the air outside and thirsty plants were overjoyed, I’m sure. The initial cold front was lackluster in rainfall totals locally with only a tenth of an inch measured in Vancouver as of early afternoon Wednesday. However, heavy showers were looming to our west and rain amounts were expected to rise upward to perhaps one half-inch in some wetter locations.
There was still a small threat Wednesday afternoon and evening of stray thundershowers and that would have dumped some heavy rain in a few places. Today skies will slowly clear somewhat in the afternoon, but a light shower couldn’t be ruled out earlier in the day. It appears our high temperatures today through Saturday will only top out around 70 degrees under a cool air mass.
Another cool trough of low pressure was scheduled to drop down the British Columbia coast over the weekend and more showers are likely, but we’ll update that one in this weekend’s edition. Meanwhile, our rapid roller-coaster ride of hot and dry weather and cool and wet weather will ease up and the roller coaster will be at ground level for a time as I see no guarantee of warm or hot weather on the horizon.
However, some models hint that warm weather will return late next week. Meanwhile no more ups and downs, only cooler and sometimes damp. Whether that lasts the remainder of the month we’ll see. I’m sure we will see a few more warm days before the opportunity closes later in October.
