David Bishop, meteorologist at the Portland branch of the National Weather Service, wants you to check and clear your gutters and storm drains of debris because it’s going to get rainy this weekend, and puddles could turn to small floods.
“There’s a pretty robust system coming through,” he said. “Most models are calling for quite a bit of precipitation amounts.”
From Thursday afternoon to Tuesday morning, Vancouver is due for about 1.5 inches of rain, but the details are still fuzzy and could change, Bishop said. Some areas along the coast and in the Columbia River Gorge could see between 3 to 4 inches of rain, he said.
It’s the first real rainstorm since summer began, a welcome relief that might mean that Vancouver missed a period of smoky skies that seems to happen almost yearly.
