I recorded 2.37 inches in north Salmon Creek;  Pearson Field, Vancouver, 2.48 inches; Gary Collins, Brush Prairie, 3.07 inches; Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 7.51 inches; Tyler Mode, Minnehaha, 2.10 inches; Bud Maddux, Home Valley, 4.37 inches; Pete Conrad, Tukes Mountain, Battle Ground, 2.68 inches; Jim Knoll, Orchards, 3.34 inches; Bob Starr, Cougar, 9.03 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lake Shore, 2.10 inches; Phil Delany, above Dole Valley, 7.80 inches; Irv St. Germain, southwest Prune Hill, 3.97 inches; Ellen Smart, Ridgefield, 2.60 inches; Larry Lebsack, northeast Hazel Dell, 2.22 inches; Nancy Ellifrit, Mount Vista, 3.95 inches; Merle Moore, two miles west of Yacolt, 6.14 inches; Phil Harris, Washougal, 4.02 inches; Chuck Houghten, Hockinson Heights, 4.45 inches; Tom Brown, Westglade near Battle Ground, 2.09 inches; Dan Hein, Camas, 3.83 inches; and Murphy Dennis, Rawson Road next to Clark Rifles, 4.69 inches.

To add to all of this, I have weather observer Roland Derksen reporting from Vancouver, B.C., the other Vancouver, that he recorded 3.49 inches in April, a bit more than Vancouver USA.

It was, once again, a drier-than-average month and adds to the string of below-average months since January 2007. Only one month had above-average rainfall. The average mean temperature for April in our area was the coldest since April 1975. In addition, April was a fickle month, with 80 degrees one weekend and snowflakes several days later. April 20 was the latest snow ever reported in Corvallis, Ore., and sticking snow was reported along the Oregon and Washington beaches.

There were plenty of those April showers for those May flowers with 21 days of measurable rain, although amounts were lighter than normal. Nevertheless, there should be a good crop of May flowers, albeit some of them blooming much later than normal. Plant experts tell me that we are about 3½ weeks behind the seasonal norm as far as tree leaf-out and blooms are concerned.

I’m sure Sunday’s and Monday’s 70-plus readings helped out those blooms quite a bit, but temperatures will fall back closer to normal as the week wears on and perhaps a bit below average by Friday.

Pat Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Reach him at weathersystems.com.