Weather Eye: It might be March, but winter’s chill isn’t finished with us yet

It was a very cold rain that fell Sunday night, just the beginning of a wintertime air mass that will hang over our region the rest of the week.

Another cold low drops southward from the Gulf of Alaska tonight and will bring another shot of snow in the mountains down to some very low elevations. Sticking snow should be at 1,000-1,500 feet which includes the Coast Range and our local foothills to our east.

There were reports of ice pellets and a few wet snowflakes around Clark County on Monday but nothing significant.

Although Vancouver managed to get almost to the 50-degree mark Monday, Seattle only managed 41 degrees, where there were many more reports of nonsticking snow up there.

Don’t be surprised to see some wet flakes late today and early Wednesday. It will be mostly a cold rain with brisk northwest winds.

As long as we are talking rain, let’s review some rainfall reports from your friends and neighbors around the region for February.

Gary Collins, Brush Prairie, 4.12 inches; Murphy Dennis, near Clark County Rifles, 4.73 inches; Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 6.04 inches; Tyler Mode, Minnehaha, 3.29 inches; Judy Darke, Felida, 4.61 inches; Larry Lebsack, northeast Hazel Dell, 4.34 inches; Irv St. Germain, southwest Prune Hill, 4.41 inches; Bud Maddux, Home Valley, 5.75 inches; Bob Starr, Cougar, 11.24 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lake Shore, 4.27 inches; Dan Hein, Camas,4.50 inches; Phil Delany, above Dole Valley, 5.80 inches; Chuck Houghten, Hockinson Heights, 4.37 inches; Phil Harris, Washougal, 3.67 inches; Bill Sobolewski, Livingston Mountain, 4.50 inches; Nancy Ellifrit, Mt. Vista, 5.62 inches; Barry Fizthum, Amboy, 3.89 inches; and Ellen Smart, Ridgefield, 4.80 inches.

Enjoy your week and bundle up and don’t be surprised to see something in the frozen variety fall from the skies here and there.

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