OK, before we go too far, let’s review some rainfall from November from your friends and neighbors: I had 7.18 inches here at Salmon Creek; Murphy Dennis, near Clark County Rifles, 12.07 inches; Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 13.43 inches; Tyler Mode, Battle Ground, 8.34 inches; Judy Darke, Felida, 7.13 inches; Barry Fitzthum, Amboy, 11.70 inches’ Irv St. Germain, SW Prune Hill, 7.20 inches; Bob Starr, Cougar, 21.43 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lakeshore, 6.92 inches; Phil Delany, above Dole Valley, 15.40 inches; Bud Maddux, Home Valley, 10.24 inches; Pete Conrad near Tukes Mountain, 7.91 inches; Nancy Ellifrit, Mt. Vista, 8.10 inches; Tom Dixon, Amboy, 11.80 inches; Larry Lebsack, NE Hazel Dell, 8.20 inches; Merle Moore, two miles west of Yacolt 14.55 inches; Gary Collins, Brush Prairie, 8.85 inches; Dave Campbell, one mile west of Heisson, 8.11 inches; Dan Hein, Camas, 7.53 inches; Jim Knoll, Five Corners, 7.67 inches; Amboy Middle School, 12.62 inches; Tyler Mode from his Minnehaha station, 6.64 inches; William Sobolewski, Livingston Mountain, 9.80 inches; and Ellen Smart, Ridgefield 8.30 inches.
I certainly don’t have to tell you that it has been very cold this month. My average mean temperature through 5 p.m. Saturday is only 33.8 degrees. For the first 10 days of the month, my low has been at or below freezing. I recorded 23 degrees early Saturday morning under night time clear skies, then fog and low clouds moved in and deposited a heavy freezing fog and even a few flurries. It was a white winter wonderland.
The afternoon high as of 5 p.m. in my neck of the woods never reached 32 degrees and there was frost in many locations. At 5 p.m., some light freezing rain and flurries were reported around the area.
The upcoming week looks cold and basically dry with only a risk of showers Sunday and maybe mid-week. Otherwise we have to wait awhile longer for the active weather pattern we usually see in December.
