Since it is a rainy weekend, we might as well look back to last month and see how much rain fell in the bucket from your friends and neighbors around the region for September. I measured 2.65 inches here in the Salmon Creek area. Gary Collins, Brush Prairie, 3.86 inches; Murphy Dennis, near Clark County Rifles, 5.05 inches; Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 4.08 inches; Tyler Mode, Minnehaha, 2.84 inches; Judy Darke, Felida, 3.31 inches; Irv St. Germain, southwest Prune Hill, 3.14 inches; Bob Starr, Cougar, 7.57 inches; Pete Conrad, Battle Ground, 3.46 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lakeshore, 2.38 inches; Dan Hein, Camas, 3.69 inches; Jim Knoll, Five Corners, 4.40 inches; Phil Delany, above Dole Valley, 7.0 inches; Phil Harris, Washougal, 3.51 inches; Bill Sobolewski, Livingston Mountain, 5.55 inches; Bud Maddux, Home Valley, 3.33 inches; Chuck Houghten, Hockinson Heights, 4.03 inches; Nancy Ellifrit, Mount Vista, 3.0 inches; Sandy Nesvick, east Vancouver, 2.80 inches; Larry Lebsack, Northeast Hazel Dell, 3.87 inches; Merle Moore, two miles west of Yacolt 5.22 inches; and Ellen Smart, Ridgefield, 2.90 inches.
As I write this column Saturday afternoon, I have recorded over 2/3 of an inch so far of rain from the warm front. A cold front was forecast to arrive Saturday night, bringing another good dose of the wet stuff.
The good news — there is always good news, isn’t there? — is that we’ll dry out Monday through Wednesday for a some very nice, cool and dry, fall-like weather. Some clouds in morning but some sun in the afternoon; nights will be chilly if we get clear skies.
It was very wet along the Washington coast, with over an inch by early Saturday morning and another inch forecast Saturday. It was breezy as well, but that didn’t stop the huge crowd of razor clam diggers at Ocean Shores.
