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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Weather Eye: No waiting until after the Fourth; summer weather’s here now

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We are down the home stretch of June and the weather will not disappoint us. Fair skies are forecast all week and into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. There will at times be some marine air infiltration causing various amounts of morning clouds.

Temperatures will generally be 75 to 85 degrees depending on the marine air that seeps inland from the ocean beaches. Even at the coast, it will be pleasant with sunny skies and perhaps some days with low clouds breaking up in the afternoon. Winds should be from the fair-weather direction — the northwest.

The monthly rainfall total of 1.45 inches — a little less than a half-inch below aerage — will remain the final for the month unless we get a surprise by midnight Thursday. Our average mean temperature as of Saturday afternoon was 64 degrees, 1 degree above normal. We will end up warmer and drier than average.

The weak front that moved inland Thursday had enough oomph to cause a few frog stranglers like I mentioned here Thursday. Downtown Vancouver received two-thirds inch of rain. Outlying areas had more than an inch. There were lightning strikes and small hail embedded in those showers. That was a fitting little storm during Lightning Awareness Week.

Thursday’s rain was the wettest day in Vancouver since May 15. For some weather observers in the outlying communities, it was the wettest day since December or January.

The extended outlook through the Fourth of July calls for dry weather, but it won’t be hot. I doubt we’ll see any readings of 90 degrees or above in this period. We have had plenty of 90-degree weather the past three months. Forget July 5, summer weather is here now.

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at http://patricktimm.com

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