I sure hate to say this, but summerlike weather is most likely on hold for the next 10 days or so. It appears we are locked into a pattern with a repeated threat of disturbances from the Gulf of Alaska, rotating inland and bringing more clouds and rain showers.
There were plenty of moderate to heavy downpours Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon around Clark County. I picked up nearly a half inch of rain Tuesday. I drove through one shower near Vancouver Lake on Wednesday, and I had to have my wipers on high speed. The water was rushing across the roadway. Then, another mile or two down the road, nothing! Expect this to occur again and again in the next week, at least.
Of course, we will have some breaks in between and temperatures rising into the 70s, but still averaging much below normal. I don’t know if we will even reach the average high of 80 degrees anytime soon. Although we won’t be too far from hot weather to the east.
I made a comment Tuesday night on my Facebook page that I attribute all of this rain to my mentioning the camel in Tuesday’s column. I got some fun out of that one. Hopefully that didn’t in any way bring all this moisture over us! And I still don’t care for camels, and I wouldn’t walk a mile for one, let alone ride a camel for a mile, either.