July 2018 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[MossMan]

Open window kind of evening!

52 and breezy here...brrrr! My dogs could see their breath!

[TigerWoodsLibido]

57F and quite pleasant. Great smoke beside the fire.

[TT-SEA]

Cliff Mass posted about Puget Sound's mid-summer darkness.   As he says... its "depressing".   Truly is.   That is just human nature.   Its been terrible and its dark and drizzling again today.    Although... there is reason to believe that the cold air will finally scour out the clouds today. 

 

Cold air aloft is really good for more sunshine.     Come on cold air!! 

 

 

http://cliffmassblogspot.com/2018/07/darkness-strikes-central-puget-sound.html

 

 

First, how bad.   Quite bad. Here is the solar radiation measurements from the WSU AgWeather network for its northeast Seattle location.  Saturday's value was the lowest since April 14th and is more representative of average values in mid-February.

 

Same story at the nearby University of Washington solar radiation site.  At Puyallup in the south Sound, the solar radiation was the lowest since mid-March!

 

Depressingly, today is not much better than yesterday, with a Puget Sound convergence zone keeping the clouds (and light rain) in place over the central sound (see solar radiation trace at UW below).  

[TT-SEA]

SEA already has crushed the rainfall total for last July... on day 1.  

 

July 2017 - T

July 2018 (through 7/1) - .04 

[MossMan]

Pouring here...again...

[ShawniganLake]

Shawnigan Lake ended the month at +0.5F. Rainfall did pick up a bit late in the month, ending up at 65% of normal.

[Farmboy]

Weird morning. There's some kind of strange bright yellow orb in the sky giving off a lot of light... Wondering if I should call NASA? Department of Homeland Security maybe??

[Phil]

[Farmboy]

Lol, global warming pimps gotta pimp....

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/395054-al-gore-warns-of-record-breaking-heat

[TT-SEA]

Still preferable to a death ridge.

 

90/79 here and it’s only 1030AM.

 

 

I want the middle ground.   What Portland has been enjoying for the last week while we have been sitting in the dark and cold.   <_>

[Phil]

Just took a hilarious video. Went to grab some new gear for the Hippa trip, and my windows wouldn’t stop fogging up. So I had to run my wipers on moderate, and I looked over at the car next to me and they were doing the same thing. So was the car behind me. No joke.

[TT-SEA]

Raining again!   Play with sound up.

 

https://vimeo.com/278003029

[Phil]

Raining again! Play with sound up.

 

https://vimeo.com/278003029

OMG. I would kill for that weather right now. :wub:

 

Btw, you should make a 6hr recording of those sounds and use it as a sleep aid or something. Or just open your windows. That sounds quite relaxing tbh.

[TT-SEA]

OMG. I would kill for that weather right now. :wub:

 

Btw, you should make a 6hr recording of those sounds and use it as a sleep aid or something. Or just open your windows. That sounds quite relaxing tbh.

I would kill for a sunny day!

 

Rain is not an issue. More than enough. Summer is short.

[Jesse]

Sort of weird to see a summer like this already reaching 2000Tim levels.

[TT-SEA]

Sort of weird to see a summer like this already reaching 2000Tim levels.

 

We are not experiencing anything close to the summer you are experiencing.    

 

You could be having a wet and cool summer there and it would still be about the same up here to the north and east of Seattle.    Its been wet, chilly, and dark lately.   Does not get much worse even in our worst summers.  Wet and dark is wet and dark.

[El Nina]

Perpetual drizzle here this morning, 0.02" so far. Probabaly the last precip for at least a month.

[Deweydog]

Weird morning. There's some kind of strange bright yellow orb in the sky giving off a lot of light... Wondering if I should call NASA? Department of Homeland Security maybe??

Don't call ICE.

 

And it's July.

[Phil]

The IO/ATL SSTAs have rebounded significantly in recent weeks. While this appears to be intraseasonal for the time being, if it continues through the rest of the month, the chances for a *legitimately* cool August in the west will decline.

 

That doesn’t mean it will be hot, but this shows how difficult it is to reverse multi-decadal climate cycles in just one year. This delayed WHEM ITCZ seasonality/autumnal +AMO/+AMM regime started gradually over a period of 5+ years in the 1990s, so you’d think it would take longer than 1 year to terminate it.

 

 

(And no, Jesse, this has nothing to due AGW/etc. It’s a climate cycle that has existed for over one million years).

[Jesse]

Chinese hoax!

[Phil]

Lol..deep stuff right here.

 

https://weloveweather.tv/video/temperature-tantrum-feels-like/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=temptantrumfeelslikewlwtw070218

 

I sort of think weather apps would be more beneficial to the public if they replaced the actual ambient temperature forecasts with “real feel” temperatures based on wind chill and heat index. People don’t pay enough attention to details like those.

[Phil]

Chinese hoax!

Lol.

 

But seriously. The connection between the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Meridional Mode has been a climate fixture for the majority of the Pleistocene. It’s not an artifact of the human-induced global warming catastrophe.

[Phil]

Agung is erupting again.

 

Sort of feels like it could be a prolonged multiyear affair like Sinabung, but I’m not a vulcanologist, so don’t hold me to it.

[Geos]

Lol, global warming pimps gotta pimp....

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/395054-al-gore-warns-of-record-breaking-heat

 

I wish he would just go away!

So sick of Gore. 

 

 

In other news. Had a quick downpour this morning. 0.04", low of 50 this morning. Was kinda brisk out. 

[Front Ranger]

Late June was not "mid summer"...

[Deweydog]

Summer starts in three days. Laugh out loud!

[Geos]

Was sunny, now back to cloudy. 

 

 

...Just moved a bunch of posts over from yesterday. Obviously I thought it was June still.    As did some other people!

[TigerWoodsLibido]

A very comfortable and dry 68F. Gotta think the Willamette Valley has had some of the most pleasant weather on Earth recently.

[Geos]

FWIW, here is the CPC's U.S. drought outlook for July. It looks like their thinking more drought conditions could develop in the PNW east of the Cascades.

 

 

I think that drought area will stay south of I-90 for awhile to come.

[TT-SEA]

Nice improvement on the 12Z ECMWF for the 4th... warmer for all.   Even Portland which had been the coolest spot on the map in recent runs.

 

[Deweydog]

[Jesse]

The last few Euro runs have shown the heat really building our way by about 7/10.

[Deweydog]

[Jesse]

[TT-SEA]

The last few Euro runs have shown the heat really building our way by about 7/10.

 

 

Bring.   It.   On.

 

One of my son's friends has family visiting from Fairbanks since last week and they were commenting on how miserable its been here.    

[Jesse]

Bring. It. On.

 

One of my son's friends has family visiting from Fairbanks since last week and they were commenting on how miserable its been here.

Not as miserable as you make this forum.

[Deweydog]

Bring. It. On.

 

One of my son's friends has family visiting from Fairbanks since last week and they were commenting on how miserable its been here.

Did you keep them on the phone for the next 45 minutes explaining the dreary nuances of the recent pattern?

 

Is that betterish, Jess?

[Farmboy]

[TT-SEA]

Did you keep them on the phone for the next 45 minutes explaining the dreary nuances of the recent pattern?

 

Is that betterish, Jess?

 

 

I did not talk to them... my son was relaying the story.   

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Not as miserable as you make this forum.

 

Yowza