Vancouver records 20th consecutive rainy day
Friday, June 4, 2010
The weather may be lousy, but Southwest Washingtonians can take some consolation in the fact that we’ve endured the soggiest streak of measurable rainfall since the waning days of the Bush administration.
Today marks the 20th consecutive day of rain in Vancouver.
That’s the longest consecutive soggy string since we experienced 27 consecutive days of measurable precipitation from Dec. 17, 2008, through Jan. 12, 2009. Much of that fell as snow.
“Unfortunately, the cycle is just stuck in March mode,” said Clinton Rockey, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Portland.
Except it’s now early June.
Rockey said the unending onslaught of ocean-spawned cloudbursts is threatening to set a Portland record for the latest point at which the temperature cracks 80 degrees. The 9th of June is the previous record for the latest 80-degree day, at least since record-keeping began at the Portland airport in the 1940s.
Forecasters anticipate it will rain again late Saturday and early Sunday.
Finally, on Monday, the weather service forecast indicates it should be “partly sunny” with a high of about 73 in Portland-Vancouver. Tuesday looks even better: “Mostly sunny,” with a high around 75.
“We’re hoping to get between systems briefly,” Rockey said.
The clouds will return by Wednesday and Thursday, with rainfall ramping up again just in time for the height of Portland’s notoriously soggy Rose Festival.
Meanwhile, forecasters find themselves veering from meteorology to psychology.
“Don’t give up hope,” Rockey said. “Give them another month, they’ll be saying it’s too hot. You can’t please ‘em all.”
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