We didn’t even get close to logging in a 60-degree day Saturday as clouds, drizzle and a cold air mass kept the temperature down. But there is hope! We see more clouds today with clearing periods and only a slight chance of a shower. Weather should be the same Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday don’t look too bad with varying amounts of cloudiness. Highs those days should be in the 60s. Maybe a 70, here and there?
We had only two days with 60-degree highs in March — on the 10th with 61 and the 12th with 62. That’s it. We did get lots of rain with 7.05 inches in the rain bucket at Vancouver. That was 3.48 inches above average. The average mean temperature was close to normal at 47.8 degrees, 0.2 degrees below average.
Many cities in Washington did have their rainiest March ever, and others had totals that were in the top five. In a report from the WSU Long Beach weather station, Kim Patten reported 17.77 inches in March, breaking the old record of 16.16 in 1975. Those records go back 149 years! No wonder there are so many cranberry bogs on the Olympic Peninsula.
Hoquiam broke its rainfall record for March with 15.94 inches. The previous record was 15.13 inches in 1997. It was the second wettest for Olympia and Quillayute, third wettest for Bellingham and the fourth wettest for Sea-Tac. I am receiving local rainfall amounts from your friends and neighbors, and one report for March is close to 30 inches of rain. Guess who?
