Last month at this time when sharing the various rainfall reports from the area, I certainly wasn’t sitting in the shade with a cold ice tea. Similar to this week it was cool and wet. On May 16 the high was only 62 degrees, reaching 58 and 57 the two previous days. May 15 was wet with nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain falling.
Tuesday was an active weather day, with downpours and rainbows, as well as thunderstorms and snow in the mountains. Several inches of snow fell in the mountains. Although rainfall was on the light side in downtown Vancouver, many outlying areas had some real frog stranglers.
Let’s review some rainfall for May from your friends and neighbors. Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 1.09 inches; Tyler Mode, Battle Ground, 1.95 inches; Bob Starr, Cougar, 2.72 inches; Gary Collins, Brush Prairie, 2.46 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lake Shore, 2.44 inches; Pete Conrad near Tukes Mountain, 1.97 inches; Merle Moore, 2 miles west of Yacolt, 3.84 inches; Dave Campbell, 1 mile west of Heisson, 3.10 inches; Bill Sobolewski, Livingston Mountain, 3.47 inches; Judy Darke, Felida, 1.99 inches; Larry Lebsack, Barberton, 2.45 inches; Ellen Smart, Ridgefield, 3 inches; Jim Knoll, Five Corners, 2.56 inches; Bob Mode, Minnehaha, 1.88 inches; Murphy Dennis, near Clark County Rifles, 3.13 inches; and Roland Derksen from Vancouver, B.C., had 2.42 inches.
