Today is a day not to remain indoors unless you are feeling ill, and if so, I wish you a speedy recovery. Those who do venture outside will get not only a good dose of vitamin D but also an injection of spring fever. Those students on spring break locally will have a bonus day with highs well into the 70s. Could we see an 80-degree high here and there?
The record high today for Vancouver wasn’t set that long ago. In 2016, we recorded an 87-degree high temperature. That’ll stay in the record books for a while longer, I bet. Our average high is now about 60 degrees.
Early Wednesday morning, I saw the rooftops were nice and white around town with a good frost. Vancouver officially dropped to 30 degrees, chilly but far from the record low of 26 degrees in 1975. Outlying areas were in the 20s. I still saw patches of white Wednesday on Silver Star Mountain to our east, so frosts are still possible.
With an incoming cold air mass, there will be more than patches on our foothills by Monday morning. A weak weather system moves over us Friday with light showers and cooler temperatures. Rainfall amounts will be paltry. However, a trough of cold air will drift down from Alaska and will lower snow levels below 1,000 feet over the weekend. With chilly showers Sunday and Monday, snow could mix in or even all-wet-snow showers at any elevation.
