Rain, snow, sleet and hail, we had a bit of everything falling from the heavens on Monday, including a few precious sunbeams. The cold front that brought steady rain late Sunday ushered in colder air aloft with many of the scattered showers containing many frozen types of precipitation, depending on your location. Some of our local foothill residents report a dusting to a couple inches of snow on the ground.
We are in between weather systems today and any showers should be widely scattered before more steady rain Wednesday and Thursday. Freezing levels rise so our rain will not contain any snowflakes here at city levels after today. It will be at the mountain passes and above before lowering again late in the week.
Vancouver, despite the chilly weather, is still running about 2 degrees above normal and even with some heavy downpours we are three-quarters of an inch of rain below average. We may catch up in the rainfall department as the month ends with the next large storm approaching. I think we will touch 50 degrees Wednesday but fall back into the 40s for highs all the way until early next week.
Did you feel those blustery west to northwest winds Monday? That added to the windchill for sure. It was windy and cold even at the ocean beaches with similar frozen precipitation whitening the ground at times.
