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Weather Eye: Clouds, rain and breezes will bring March 2016 in like a lion

By Patrick Timm
Published: February 28, 2016, 6:00am

Saturday turned out to be not bad of a day after a cold front moved through fast Friday evening. It was decent here at the coast too. The break in the action was short-lived as another weather system moves through today.

Gusty winds on the ocean beaches and some moderate snow in the Cascades at or above the passes are on tap today. Rainfall could be between 1/2 and 1 inch. Monday may be like yesterday, between weather systems. I’m afraid March will come in like a lion; clouds, rain and breezes are in the forecast.

The mild conditions will continue and snow levels rise this week with a series of storms. This translates for us as rain then showers then rain and then showers. I think the first half of March will be wet.

I say, enough already! With the flowering trees getting ablaze in pink and white and the rays of sunshine and those recent 60-degree days, I am so ready for spring!

As the meteorological winter ends tomorrow, it will go into the record books as the fourth-warmest on record. We already know it was a wet one. What started out as a good snow year is melting away. The snowpack in the northern Oregon and southern Washington Cascades is only 85 percent of normal. With rain this week and next, and higher freezing levels, a good share will run off.

Rainfall so far this month is 3.42 inches in Vancouver, about a third of an inch below average, but we may make some of that up.

We had seven days of 60 degrees or better officially for Vancouver; some neighbors recorded a few more. Bundle up and keep dry.

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

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