Our benign weather pattern continues, and all is quiet on the western front, so to speak. Morning clouds will disappear, and sunny skies will warm us into the 80s today and Friday. Further heating on Saturday will give us another 90-degree day. We should drop a few degrees on Sunday into the upper 80s.
Looking ahead it appears rather than riding a constant warm-to-hot regime, we will continue a roller coaster ride with highs in the 80s to 90 degrees and then cooler marine air drops us into the 70s, temperatures well below average. We expect highs in the 70s early next week.
A variety of temperatures in a quiet weather pattern is OK in my book. Look at the weather extremes around the rest of the United States. Extreme heat to torrential rains and historic severe flooding. We haven’t even had any measurable precipitation at the official station in Vancouver, only a trace from light mist. Yes, some of you, especially in our foothills, did record measurable precipitation from heavy drizzle the other day but most of us mist it (pardon the pun).
While writing this column on Wednesday, I looked back on July 11, 2011, and noticed I had a quarter-inch of rain at my home in Salmon Creek in only 10 minutes. A real gully washer. We went on to have over an inch of rain that month in Vancouver, twice the normal amount.
