Sweet serendipity. All we need weather-wise is a little cloudiness to keep the scorching heat away, a little sunshine to brighten the day and, of course, very pleasant temperatures. And so goes our forecast for the next several days.
We’ll see a few more clouds Tuesday, with little clearing, but we are good to go after that.
Now that we have accumulated more than a week of August weather in the books, how is a Vancouver doing? The average mean temperature is 69.1 degrees, about one degree below average. Rainfall is only a trace, so about a tenth of an inch below normal. Just noticed Vancouver has gone 18 days in a row without measurable rainfall. The monthly extremes so far are 84 degrees for a high and 54 degrees for a low. Pretty mellow, folks.
As soon as I had mentioned about hearing the first crickets of summer, I got a message from Debbie Derrick of Vancouver, who has heard her first one. I left the window open Sunday night to see if I could hear any in the field by my house, with no luck. No crickets, no frogs, just the distant roar of the ocean. Actually, it is the freeway, but I like to think of it as the great blue sea.
