This week is a milestone for me as it is my 29th year writing this weather column in The Columbian. My first Weather Eye column appeared on Dec. 3, 1990. Boy, there has certainly been a lot of weather to talk about over those years and a deluge of water in the rain gauge, over 100 feet to be exact here in Vancouver.
Clark County during this time frame has seen the entry and departure of several El Nino and La Nina episodes, windstorms, floods and temperature swings of over 100 degrees from a high of 108 degrees to frigid lows in the single digits in the outlying areas. Not to mention a very white Christmas in 2008.
I think you can count on one hand the number of columns I have missed over nearly three decades, as I always write my column, even when traveling. I may take a vacation but the weather doesn’t. Sharing my thoughts, prose and a bit of humor with you, the reader, is most enjoyable.
Last month Vancouver reached a milestone too in the weather department as the sixth-driest November on record. And Vancouver’s records go back to the late 1800s. We measured only 1.57 inches compared to the average of 5.91 inches.
