Although it was brief, the light rainfall late Saturday night and early Sunday was a welcome interlude to the dry, warm weather. If you were up late Saturday or up early Sunday couldn’t you smell the raindrops?
That fresh smell after a long period without rain is called petrichor — a combination of bacteria and ozone. The rain was only a tenth of an inch in Vancouver, but was enough to break our 57 days without measurable rainfall record.
The high temperature Sunday was some nine degrees below average at 73. Monday, it was still on the cool side, hovering in the mid 70s. The Clark County Fair managed to get through its run without any rain falling.
Will there be clouds or no clouds for the eclipse? That is the million-dollar question. The weekend should be mostly clear, but we could have morning clouds Monday west of the Cascades. Perhaps not as a weak weather system may drop down from Canada Monday and push higher clouds over us. In any event, we will know more as we get closer. Probably the best place will be in the Madras area where there is no worry of low clouds.