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Happy Friday.
The amigos met at Chuck’s Hop Shop in Central District for a beer and a bite.
The streak of warmer-than-usual-but-not-unbearable weather here in the city will continue through the weekend— 83°F (28°C) today and up to 88°F (31°C) tomorrow.
There was cloud cover this morning, but it was gone by late morning.
Today was the 12th day in a row with a high 80°+ (27°C+) recorded at Sea-Tac.
(The record is 15 days in a row, and it will be broken).
There has also been no rain in July, and we have a real shot at reaching the end of July with no rain at all.
Normally, July ends with about 0.67″ of recorded rain.
What has been the driest July on record? I wondered.
Here is what the Office of the Washington State Climatologist says about July 1960:
‘All of the climate divisions of the state were exceedingly dry in July 1960 (ranging from 0.01” in the Puget Sound Lowlands to 0.05” in the East Slopes Cascades region).
Some stunningly low amounts of precipitation occurred in spots that normally get a fair amount of rain.
For example, in the coastal region of WA, Forks checked in with only 0.04” and Hoquiam got completely shut out with 0.00”.
The 1981-2010 climate normal for Forks and Hoquiam in July is 2.47 and 1.14”, respectively’.
We had 97°F (36°C) here in the city of Seattle today, record for this day on the calendar.
The sunny weather and clear skies will persist, but the high should come down by some 10°F (5.5°C) tomorrow.
The weather forecast now says the heat here in the city will top out on Tuesday at 95°F (35°C).
I like to take a picture or two of my hydrangea’s bloom every summer before the hot weather scorches the little flowers.
It is hot – Seattle ‘hot’ – here in the city this weekend, with 87°F (30°C) today.
The highs are forecast to climb to 94°F (34°C) by Monday.
Check out these charts from the New York Times.
There are lots of US cities with triple-digit heat index forecasts, but the hottest ones are all in Arizona.
(The second table is the same, but with heat index forecasts in Celsius).
I’d think it’s impossible to cool down a house with no airconditioning if the outside temperature does not even drop into the 80s at night time.
[Graphic by New York Times]
Here in Seattle I can still get away for now, without deploying my one-room airconditioner (I roll it out of the closet on its wheels and set it up in the bedroom for summer 😃).
For now I open the upstairs windows at 9 pm and let the cool air in.
[Graphic by New York Times]
One of the longest-lasting and strongest June heat waves in years is revving up across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
The most intense heat first focuses on the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and New England through Thursday, shifting toward the Mid-Atlantic this weekend.
– Ian Livingston writing for the Washington Post
There was rain today: a nice little late afternoon downpour.
It was only 58°F (14 °C) when I went out for a walk afterwards.
Spring is coming to a rough ending weatherwise, elsewhere in the country.
Places in southern Florida had been drenched with 24 in. of rain or more over the last few days, and it was 111 °F (44 °C) in Phoenix, Arizona today.
Happy Saturday.
It felt like summer today here in Seattle (78 °F/ 26 °C) and the sunny weather will continue for several more days.
It rained all day.
It looks like we will be getting all of June’s normal rainfall (1.45 in) here in the greater Seattle area over the next three days.
Two back-to-back atmospheric rivers are bringing in the precipitation.
It was a beautiful day here in the city (65 °F/ 18 °C).
The amigos played a little pickleball on the tennis courts at Mount Baker Park.
Happy Friday.
It was a lovely spring day around the city.
Everyone seemed to be out on the streets.
I colorized the photo that I took while I was stuck at the University Bridge while it was opened to ship canal traffic.
Look for the little float plane up in the air.
It felt like spring today, with the sun out all day long.
Here in the city of Seattle we touched 60 °F (15 °C) at the high.
There was sun today, but it does not feel like spring yet here in the city.
It was only 47 °F (8 °C) as I went for a quick walk after dinner.
Here’s Volunteer Park today.
It is definitely still winter— 41° F (5 °C) with a little wind chill. Brr.
The hyacinths (picture below) and daffodils provided a little color amid the grays of winter.
It was a pleasant winter’s day here in the city with sunshine, blue skies and a high of 56°F (13 °C).
There was a little snow on the ground here in the city this morning.
The day’s high of 43 °F (6 °C) was good enough to melt most of it, though.
This weekend brought terrible news out of Viña del Mar, just a stone’s throw from where had been in Valparaiso, two weeks ago.
The reporting below is from Associated Press.
The 62 °F (16 °C) high of today here in the city was the highest recorded so far for January 29.
Maybe there will be several such days in a row, fifty Januaries from now.
‘The first 10 days of December saw a series of atmospheric rivers flow into Washington and western Oregon, bringing record-breaking rainfall and above-freezing temperatures which further reduced what little snowpack there was’.
– Mark Knowlin writing in the Seattle Times.
