Another sunny day Saturday with highs again reaching the 60-degree mark. Hard to believe we had such a warm and relatively dry winter.
Even though we have had a few bursts of rain, we are now below average for the water year that began Oct.1. There is 24.19 inches of rain recorded since that date in Vancouver, 2.50 inches below average. Rainfall since Jan. 1 is 8.44 inches, 1.65 inches below average. February rainfall, however, is half an inch above average so far.
Enjoy a few more days before a chance of showers or light rain filter down from the northwest. Last week, it appeared we would have a major pattern change with more wet and stormy weather. That is now on hold, for a while at least. High pressure will remain fairly close to the Northwest, allowing only weak weather disturbances to drop down over us. So much for a wet start to March.
We’ll see how things develop this week, and keep our fingers crossed for yet a last-ditch effort to get snow in the Cascades and Olympics. A modified arctic air mass was filtering into eastern Washington Saturday with dew points in the lower teens in Spokane and strong gusty northeast winds. Vancouver was 60 degrees at 3 p.m. Saturday while Missoula, Mont., was 28 degrees with light snow.
