We are back in our familiar weather pattern, with strong high pressure offshore. This translates into dry and mild weather for us. Overnight lows Monday night were expected to dip below freezing in the outlying areas and around the frost point in Vancouver. We will have another freeze tonight into Wednesday morning.
The overnight lows will warm a bit the rest of the week and the high temperatures will creep upward as well. We should see highs in the 50s and then 60 or better later in the week. Spring is here folks, at least meteorological spring. The calendar lags behind a bit.
It sure looks like spring as most flowering trees are in full bloom, even magnolias. Everything is a few weeks ahead of schedule this year, it seems. February will go into the record books in many locales as the warmest. This follows a warm winter overall. The opposite occurred along the East Coast this winter. Crazy.
So when will it rain again? It remains to be seen whether the strong high pressure stays anchored in the northeast Pacific or not. Longer-range computer forecast models indicate a wet and stormy period next week, with good mountain snow. Of course, we have mentioned that many times one week out and it just fizzled. We can only hope for that mountain snow, although the chances of getting back to normal this late in the season is dim.
