Well, did you like the rain? I heard no complaints from anyone. And if there were, nothing we could do about it anyway. Rainfall amounts varied widely with 2 inches at some coastal locations and one-half to an inch locally. My rainfall for the month as of 5 p.m. Wednesday was 53-hundredths of an inch. I missed some of the heavier downpours late Tuesday.
A good start to the fall rains, don’t you think? We still run a risk of showers through Friday and then we get treated to a nice weekend with highs in the 70s. I certainly do not see any highs in the 80s or 90s in the extended forecast.
It appears looking at the longer-range forecast charts Wednesday afternoon we may be in for the usual roller-coaster ride of a few days with rain and a few days of dry weather. High, low, high, low — you get the picture. No massive ridge of high pressure to keep us in an extended period of fair weather. We’ll see what develops when October rolls in next week.
At least the temperatures were fairly mild with the rain. Not the sometimes chilly rain we see in autumn, but of course it is still early. If you really wanted a downpour, try 3 miles up the Rogue River in southwest Oregon. In 18 hours one observer measured 4.86 inches of rain.
