Happy Valentine’s Day! The weather will cooperate and bring us a dry day. Enjoy the day because it is back to rain and more rain beginning Wednesday.
Let’s talk about Monday first. It was chilly early with lots of frost everywhere. Vancouver’s low was officially 28 degrees. With clear skies and full sunshine, we warmed to 53 degrees in the afternoon. At 10 a.m., it was a cool 44 degrees, and then the east winds kicked in and the thermometer jumped to 50 degrees an hour later. We topped out at 53 degrees.
The east winds blew clear to the ocean beaches, where it was 10 degrees warmer than Vancouver, in the low to mid-60s. A nice downslope warming effect. That happens quite often at the coast in February when we get easterly winds.
A juicy weather system moves in Wednesday, bringing 1 or 2 inches of rain to the lowlands the next two days, with high freezing levels. That means rain at the lower elevations and passes in the Cascades, maybe local flooding here and there. Sound familiar?
