This April is perhaps the best weather-wise that we have had in several years. It sure is dry to say the least. With 10 days to go I don’t see enough rain to help us out much. We have a weak weather system this weekend and another the later part of next week. Rainfall will be less than a tenth of an inch this weekend and about the same later next week. Perhaps if we are fortunate, we could get upward of a quarter-inch in the wetter locations next week.
Don’t let fair skies this morning fool you into thinking it will be a good weather day. For a while yes but an abrupt shift in winds and rapid cloud cover is on tap for the late afternoon hours and a brief shot of light rain. If you have begun watering your yard or shrubs, keep it up as the amounts will be light.
The past three weak weather fronts have left us with only a hundredth of an inch or maybe a couple more and that’s it. Vancouver so far this month as of Friday has seen only .77 of an inch, which is 1¼ of an inch below average. We need another round or two of those elusive April showers, folks.
As each weather front moves by, we drop several degrees back toward the seasonal normal plus or minus and then rebound nicely to 70 degrees or so. We had scattered frost last week and although I don’t foresee a widespread frost, any clearing after one of these cold fronts would present some light frost in our colder regions of the county.
