It seems fitting that before a major weather-pattern change, we experience something unusual — and I would say the 61 degrees recorded in Vancouver on Monday would qualify. We most likely will go from 10 degrees above average for the high to 10 degrees below average by the end of the week and over the weekend.
At least it is looking like a good setup for significant mountain snowfall beginning late tonight and continuing off and on into early next week. And the snow level will be falling with each impulse dropping down the B.C. coast. The lower foothills around Clark Country could get some snow, mainly at 1,000 feet and higher. Any threat of snow here at city levels is way too early to predict precisely. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few wet snowflakes mixed in.
Of course, a lot depends on how much cold air makes it this far south, the various wind patterns and such, so in a couple of days we will have a better handle on it. Bottom line, much cooler and wetter. And if skies clear early next week, we will have a killing frost finally and put to rest many readers complaints about mosquitoes and other pests. It might even slow down the algae and mold growth.
Our 61-degree high on Monday couldn’t quite match the record high of 65 degrees set in 1949. The record low for Monday was 10 degrees set in 1955, a far cry from the overnight low of 52 degrees. What a mild night it was.
