Hot and Cold June

Another month down, we now sit halfway through 2019. June played a pretty good June this time round. I had some clouds, some sun, some rain, some hail, a couple of scorchers and a few genuinely chilly moments. That's Miss Spring's classic Northwest exit.

June was a tad on the warm side a couple of degrees up on light side and about normal for overnight. The hottest temp came on the 12th when the merc capped out at 98.8° one of two back to back 90 plus days both were daily records for me. The chilliest afternoon was also the only day that failed to reach 60° when it topped out at just 58.8° on the 27th. We had 9 days with overnight lows in the 40s, that's a fair bit for June and the coolest a 44.2° measured on the morning of the 9th and that was one of two mornings under 45° We did have one toasty overnight low when the merc stayed above 65° all night long. No surprise it cam after the 95.7° afternoon on the 11th and lead to the hottest day of the month on the 12th with that 98.8° I mentioned above.

The rain bucket was once again super dry. I typically see a couple of inches in the 'ole bucket in June this time just a paltry 0.89" We did have a pretty spectacular thunderstorm on the night of the 26th, power was out the whole nine-yards. That little monster dumped nearly half the months rain total in just a couple hours. Yet despite the theatrics, it was still only 0.41 in my gauge, so not enough. This is kind of serious, I am 16.75" off my typical rain figures through the first 6 months of 2019. That is only 11.70" of a 'normal' 28.45" and that's just 41% of normal. At this rate we are going to lose our reputation for deliriously damp and wonderfully wet.

All in all that was a nice June, just 4 days with any showers or rain and 21 days of mostly sunshine. July is looking like nice weather ahead and the 4th ought to be sunny and about average somewhere near 80°

It's time for the magical 75 days of summer in the Portland-Vancouver Metro Area :)