On August 12, 2009, I wrote this on my Facebook page, “Looks like we will get all of the August ‘average’ rainfall in two days so we will be good to go for the rest of the month back to warm and dry. Not bad. I measured 0.75 of an inch of rain here in Salmon Creek overnight.”
Thanks for the memories from the social media giant. We had a weak weather system that was moving through Clark County on Saturday and today. Rain showers were in the forecast, but as of 5 p.m. Saturday writing this column, it was difficult to predict just how much rain would fall. But our nearly two-month dry spell is expected to come to a halt today.
That heavy rainfall in August 2009 was unusual for the month, and local amounts in Vancouver were nearly an inch. A good soaking indeed. Then less than a week later, temperatures soared to nearly 100 degrees.
This year we get much lighter amounts of rain and I certainly do not see any 100-degree weather heading our way any time soon. High pressure builds this week for warming and drying but also a round of morning clouds, afternoon sunshine and highs near normal, about 80 degrees or so.
