Weather Eye: Wet, warmer and possibly windy, with snow levels still high

We are back to wet and warm weather as the Pacific conveyor belt is up and rolling along. One weather system after another will be moving toward the West Coast for the next two weeks. Snow levels remain high.

Maybe by next week as the stormy weather continues, the snow levels will lower to catch the passes. Forecast models indicate we could see some windy weather, especially along the coast.

Vancouver was still running about 5 degrees below average through 5 p.m. Saturday and about two-thirds of an inch above average in rainfall.

I want to share a seasonal poem written by a longtime reader of this column, Violet Rosalie Thom of Vancouver, during our chilly east wind episode last week. She writes, ‘Geese Flying’—”Geese honking in cloudy, gray cold sky-I wonder why you fly so high. Are you afraid of ice and snow? Do you know I have no other place to go? I have to quiver, my body shivers. I wear heavy sweater in unbearable cold weather. I see you fly in icy sky.”

We are into the meteorological winter season for sure, but as far as I can see into the future, no white Christmas for us this year. Maybe no snow at all this month (although The Old Farmer’s Almanac is calling for a little snow a couple days after Christmas). We need a major pattern change, and there are no signs of it yet.

For those who want snow, as long as we stay in a warm and wet pattern, that may allow things in the far north to cool off and threaten us again with cold east winds and maybe icy weather. We’ll see. Weather Eye is always looking out for you.

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at http://patricktimm.com.