Oh, that pesky low spinning off our coast. Surges of clouds and moisture are streaming northward over the entire states of Oregon and Washington with scattered thunderstorms possible over the Cascades the next few days. With a southerly flow I would expect our afternoon highs today and Wednesday will be 70 degrees or better.
As more clouds and moisture deepen thanks to another cold low from the north, we include a chance of showers Thursday through the weekend and highs may not reach our normal of 66 degrees. Clouds, moisture and chilly weather sounds more like last month, doesn’t it? At least we keep out of the 30s and no snow threats.
April was wet with 5.18 inches of rain, which was 2.25 inches above normal. Our average mean temperature was 50.4 degrees, 1.3 degrees below average. If it wasn’t for those last warm days of April, it would have been more. One interesting note from April, we had a high of 88 degrees on the 28th and a low of 34 degrees on the 13th. That is a 54-degree difference. Impressive you say?
A weather proverb says, “Don’t praise the month till it’s ended.” Yet the month of May certainly has some delightful traits based on probabilities alone. The late spring season warmth takes a big spurt forward thanks to the longer days and the gradual slowdown of the great weather machine out in the Pacific. Looks like we will have to wait a while for that change.
