Wednesday was a pleasant day with typical end-of-May weather — a few clouds in the morning, then sunny with increasing high overcast late in the day. Those clouds were associated with a weak weather system that could bring some drizzle or light showers here and there today.
Another weak low will affect us Friday or Friday night, then another weaker one late Saturday. I think we’ll have little or no rain after today, just plenty of those typical June marine low clouds with clearing in the afternoons and really nice temperatures in the 70s. Almost picture-perfect.
May went into the record books as a drier than average and warmer than average month. For once! Let’s hope we are establishing a new trend here. The average mean temperature was 59.5 degrees, 1.5 degrees above average. The rainfall as of 5 p.m. Wednesday was just 1.78 inches, 0.70 inch below normal. We could have no measurable rain from now through the end of September and still be above average for the water year ending Sept. 30.
Besides May being a warm and dry month, we went from May 19 through 5 p.m. Wednesday without any measurable rainfall. We had 20 such days during the month if no rain fell before midnight, after press time.
