Patrick Timm is a neighborhood climate specialist. His column seems Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Attain him at ptimmwriter@gmail.com.
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Oh, February, we thanks for the pleasant shift from winter’s crisp, icy chew to the blossoming promise of spring, a change felt within the warming solar and the softening earth. Thursday’s surprisingly heat climate shattered expectations, with a record-breaking excessive of 69 levels, a full diploma hotter than the earlier file set in 1991.
Sunshine continued Friday and highs have been forecast to bounce again into the 60s. The file excessive in Vancouver for Friday was 69 levels in 1986. Right this moment, we quiet down a bit as excessive clouds enhance and cooler winds off the ocean seep inland. Excessive stress erodes away and a big trough of low stress slides by means of Northern California and Southern Oregon. Wrap-around moisture on Sunday may supply a couple of mild showers within the county however any rainfall shall be on the sunshine aspect. Highs will slip to extra seasonable ranges.
Put together for a actuality verify as this upcoming climate sample brings cooler temperatures and maybe some rain, so let these heat highs of the previous week fade into a pleasing reminiscence. Subsequent week guarantees a relaxing mixture of solar and cloud cowl, with occasional mild showers. I hate utilizing the phrase “chance of showers,” however I have to embody it within the forecast for every day subsequent week, although some days will seemingly be dry.
Trying forward as we enter the second week of March subsequent weekend, we may expertise one other atmospheric river to some extent as forecast charts counsel. That in fact is a great distance out, so we are going to wait and see what units up store over the good Northwest.