I hope you had a chance to get outside Saturday at least for a short walk or something and soak up some of that January sunshine. I managed to sit in my yard swing feeling the weak sun rays upon my face. It felt so good, almost got me thinking about spring time!
We should see several more days of blue skies and sunshine however a weak weather system is riding over the top of high pressure off the coast and will bring some clouds today and Monday before the high pressure rebounds and gives us a good stretch of fair weather. I am thinking any rainfall will remain north of Clark county but seems like I always have to place a disclaimer in the forecast.
No worries about the rainfall department, through Saturday afternoon the reading at Pearson air field was 4.61 inches about one half inch above average. Our average mean temperature is 40.5 degrees, 1.8 degrees above average. With relatively dry weather in the extended period I would expect us to fall below normal with the rainfall and may even end up below average for the month unless we get a surprise the last couple of days.
As soon as the east winds kick in this coming week we will be enjoying highs in the 50s and even 60s along the ocean beaches. And on another bright note, the sun is setting after 5 pm now. Before too long we will be hearing the groundhog’s prediction for the rest of the winter. I’m sure it will be a good one for us. This La Niña episode we are in is certainly not behaving like one, more like it’s cousin El Niño.
