At least if I forecast rain and it turns out partly sunny and mostly dry, I don’t feel too bad. Yeah, you miss one occasionally. However, our foothills to our east had an inch or two of rain. In the Longview/Kelso area there was about an inch and heavier amounts along the coast.
It was almost as if Vancouver was in a rain shadow like Seattle and Puget Sound enjoy many times. We did have a good shot of rain everywhere but here. Oh well, I do not hide in public, ha-ha. Now forecasting sunshine and it rains, well, perhaps going incognito.
The Cascades did receive copious amounts of precipitation as the westerly winds were forced upward. All three of the major Cascade passes in our state were closed Sunday evening. Too much snow and rain caused extreme avalanche dangers. Timberline was closed Monday due to extreme icing conditions and high winds.
Sounds like we were in the banana belt, doesn’t it? We reached 53 degrees Monday, the warmest high temperature this month. It was also exactly average for the date, as our average high now is 53 degrees.
