How festive — we had snow recently on Christmas and now on Valentine’s Day. Well many of us. If you slept in late you may have missed the big fluffy wet flakes.
Salmon Creek out to Battle Ground had a trace to 1 inch. Phil Delany above Dole Valley reported in with 5 inches; so did Murphy Dennis on Rawson Road near Clark County Rifles. Livingston Mountain above Washougal had 4 inches.
It wasn’t really a big surprise, as after I submitted my column Monday afternoon, evening forecast models showed a good chance of evaporative cooling and rain changing to snow for a short time period. Bingo. Rain began before midnight in Vancouver at 40 degrees and it kept cooling down into the lower 30s, and rain changed to snow. Not enough to impact rush hour but some school districts were closed, including Washougal and northern Battle Ground.
We get a break today then another cold storm drops down the British Columbia coast for a good shot of warm rain Friday into Saturday. Colder air follows and another weaker storm slides down Sunday and I think we get snow from that one. Whether we get a trace to several inches is still up in the air at this point. So, watch the forecasts as we head into the weekend. Beyond that next week starts off cold, with highs in the upper 30s and lows in the 20s. Remember Old Man Winter? The sneaky old guy.
