Our fine spring weather continues, although a cooler air mass lowered high temperatures Wednesday. A warmer air mass moves inland, and we rebound back into the 70s today and Friday, followed by 60s on Saturday. The only chance of rain in the next week or so appears to be on Easter Sunday. What showers that do fall will be scattered and on the light side. However, Easter will certainly feel more like spring.
The Climate Prediction Center shows the remainder of April will tend to be drier than normal and cool. Advance into May the dry weather continues but temperatures are expected to be above average. Already April is running three-quarters of an inch below average in the rainfall department. We’ll likely end the month with below normal rainfall.
Let’s catch up by reviewing last month’s rainfall around the area from your friends and neighbors. Bob Starr, Cougar, 16.66 inches; Jim Knoll, Five Corners, 4.80 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lakeshore, 4.16 inches; Tyler Mode, Battle Ground, 6.73 inches; Bob Mode, Minnehaha, 3.57 inches; Chuck Houghten, Hockinson Heights, 8.59 inches; Irv St. Germain, Prune Hill, 6.15 inches; Ellen Smart, Ridgefield, 4.90 inches; Dick Lenahan, Meadow Glade area, 5.54 inches; and I had 5.26 inches in La Center. Our friend Roland Derksen in Vancouver, B.C., recorded 9.98 inches. The official rainfall for Vancouver USA was 4.42 inches, 0.47 of an inch above average.
Observer Jim Knoll finally after 44 years of weather records reached a high temperature in the 80s in the month of March with a high of 83 degrees on March 26. He noted that March was the warmest since 2016. Roland Derksen of Vancouver, B.C., noted that March was the third wettest of his 50 years of weather records there.
