Several hours of pleasant weather will be upon us before the chance of thunderstorms and showers moves inland later today through early Monday. I wouldn’t rule out a nocturnal thunderstorm with cloud-to-cloud lightning.
Predicting thunderstorms is almost like predicting snow here — they can be scattered, their movement erratic. If you get one over your neighborhood, rainfall could be relatively heavy for a short time. I’m hoping for a few downpours. We need the rain badly.
If no measurable rainfall dumps on Pearson Field in Vancouver before midnight, then the official reading for May would be 0.68 inch, 1¾ inch below average. Average mean temperature is running nearly 2 degrees above average.
Will the trend continue into June? We certainly will start the month off with lots of marine air and low cloudiness.
