Not a good sign when we are talking about record-low high temperatures and record rainfall when the calendar is about to turn over to the June. Last year on this date, we were flirting with highs near 90 degrees. We haven’t reached 80 degrees yet this year and probably won’t for a long while.
The upcoming week looks like more of the same, with periods of rain, a few breaks but lots of clouds and cool temperatures. We should be enjoying highs around 70 degrees right now. A band of rain will be just to our north today and will slowly sag southward. I hope it will remain to the north until nightfall but won’t be surprised if it does not. After that, more showers, with a much larger weather system slamming in by Wednesday and bringing 2 to 3 inches of rain in the coastal mountains and 1 to 2 inches in the Cascades.
Then expect more on Thursday. It will be wet.
No worry about May rainfall locally: We are already over the average and approaching twice the average in some areas.
And how cool is it? Friday’s high of 57 degrees is a far cry from the 103 degrees that I recorded in 1983 — that day, the southbound lanes of the I-5 Bridge got stuck in the raised position. Fire boats were called out to hose things down and cool the expanse. That was a hot one!
