I guess the only difference between rain in the winter and rain in the summer is whether it is cold and wet or warm and wet. Overnight Friday into Saturday morning, we got the latter. It was fairly mild with the showers and turned out to be a little muggy during the day on Saturday. At least we got some sun breaks. With the daytime heating and the destabilization of the atmosphere, plenty of towering cumulus were present. That means also there was a risk of scattered thunderstorms. While I was writing this column, however, I did not see any around Clark County.
Rainfall Saturday was generally between one-tenth and one-quarter of an inch here in the lowlands. Of course, isolated locations may have received more, especially if a thundershower developed Saturday evening after I wrote this.
Today will see another risk of showers and maybe thunderstorms — mainly over the mountains — and mild temperatures, still below the seasonal averages.
The extended outlook still looks like we will be under the gun most any day this week — for showers and below-average temperatures — unless we get an extended clearing period to get us to the 80-degree mark like we saw Friday.
