Our spring weather forecast is changing this week — from cool and wet to cool and not so wet. We’ll have a risk of showers the next few days and then a couple of dry days, and looking way out to Easter weekend, it may be back to wet and wetter. We may have to wait until the latter half of the week before we see temperatures in the 60s materialize. Of course, this is subject to change, as always, considering the weather pattern we have been enduring for some time now.
Seattle is setting all kind of records, and not the ones you want to really write home about for sure. They just had the coldest first half of April on record at Sea-Tac airport. The average high temperature for the first 15 days of the month was only 50.1 degrees. The previous record was 50.9 degrees in 1953. This kind of an average high would be expected in February.
Violent weather with killer tornadoes is stirring things up back east. In two days, 17 people were killed in the southeastern United States. On Friday alone, 98 tornadoes were reported, after 22 on Thursday. The line of thunderstorms began Thursday afternoon in Kansas. Cold air rushing southward from Canada collided with warm and moist air form the Gulf of Mexico, causing the severe weather.
At least our weather is much less active here, and a good thing that is. The Cascade snow pack continues to build, and last week Mount Hood Meadows won the honors of receiving the most snow of any ski resort with just over four feet falling, ending on April 7th.
