James Jones

Before 2006 we hit 100 on 6/18/1982, 6/22/1992, and 6/30/1942. Gunning for the third year in a row which is loltastic, though to be fair the 2016 reading was a PDX special.

My apologies if you're just trolling Tim but having a sub-70 high with any meaningful sunshine is practically impossible around here during July/August. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head (at least for Portland). Quite the run of June heatwaves lately. 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017 have all had significant heat events and it looks like this year could follow suit.

The point people are making is that the wet periods have been heavily focused during the cold season where it's always going to be varying degrees of wet and cold. Does it really make a difference to you if the November - March period is 25% wetter than normal vs 10% drier? The part of the year where weather you like is actually possible has seen an above average number of dry days and has been much warmer and sunnier than average as well. The 2014 - present stretch has been as favorable to your tastes as any period on record, and yet you still spend an inordinate amount of time bitching about a rain surplus that has been focused on a time of year you hate no matter what.

Exactly. This is why the American Chestnut is as widespread and vigorous as it's ever been. You clearly have a great grasp of how evolution actually works.

The I5 corridor might see a 1.4" mean instead of .8". Summer completely ruined, any concerns of drought mitigated.

Didn't you say that you recorded a high in the 40s during the June 2008 trough? Complete and utter summer perfection, hope we get lucky enough to have a repeat this year.

No, I'm acting like you might post stats about how much rain you've seen at your house and talk about how it rains all winter.

I know everybody is talking about it, but it really is incredible how dry it's been for the last month. A regional soaking would be extremely welcome right now. Hopefully this dry pattern breaks and we get some meaningful rain while it's still a reasonable climatological possibility or things could be really ugly with dead trees and forest fires come late summer. And yes Tim, I know it rains a lot in the winter and that it's been really wet at your location. But our ecosystem is not meant to handle 5 months of bone dry conditions.

The weather is going to do what it does regardless of who cheers for what. Which also means you can like whatever you want.

Right now I'm just trying to work through the shocking revelation that a foothills location east of Seattle is experiencing cloudier and wetter conditions than the rest of the region. Meanwhile the marine layer breaking up down here, should be a partly sunny afternoon after suffering through two straight days of overcast and mild temps. On the topic of warm Mays it's interesting that there were quite a few of them in the late 19th century. 1884, 1885, 1888, 1890, and 1897 were all major torches even by today's standards (only looking at highs here because of UHI differences).

Looking like this could go down as the earliest starting summer on record. Apparently not good enough for Tim though, reading his posts you would think it was 2010. Hopefully the torch lets up within a month and we get an average summer. I miss having the windows open all day, running the AC every afternoon in July/August is getting old.

Yeah that 82 is loltastic. Has me reconsidering my post from a couple hours ago

Something worth keeping an eye on at least as we go through the summer. Meanwhile I'm starting to get some sprinkles here.

Not to say PDX hasn't seen an increase in UHI recently because they have, but their afternoon temps this month don't seem unusual compared to Troutdale.

At SEA, February had 9 days with a trace or less and was drier than normal. March was drier than normal as well and had 16 days with a trace or less. Yes, the first half of April was a washout but the month still had 14 days with a trace or less and included a few days with record warmth. The last few months were not bad at all and were well above average for number of dry days. January was very persistently wet but you hate that month no matter what.

This is going to be an average summer... based on the 1991-2020 normals. Book it.

The 18z looks cooler and wetter. Thank God. Things are getting very dire down here in Oregon, looks like a tinderbox out there. This relief is just temporary though, we're going to be in some serious trouble without a July 1993 repeat.

Any thoughts on the FV3-GFS that's been added to Tropical Tidbits Phil? I have no idea what's different about it from the old GFS.

1926 had this stretch downtown: 4/24: 81 4/25: 83 4/26: 84 4/27: 93 4/28: 91 4/29: Deadly marine push

Very breezy and in the low 70s already here by 10 AM. Pretty rare for April. 12z ensembles look solid for another warm spike after the cooldown. Tim can stop freaking out now. http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Portland_Oregon_USA_ens.png?hc_location=ufi

High is 47 so far, if it holds it will tie the record low maximum. PDX is very overdue for a sub-50 high in April, hasn't happened since 2012. Historically it's not uncommon. I was thinking it could happen today but PDX didn't even record measurable precip this afternoon.

You would have hated the 1911 warm season. Persistent rain in May, June was mostly socked in with low clouds, the first half of August also looks like it was dominated by a stubborn marine layer, and September was sopping wet and record cold (downtown Portland didn't even record a single day with a 75+ degree high). Only July had persistently sunny weather. It was cloudier than any warm season you've experienced since moving to the area, 2010 included.

Thank the lord Trump hired John Bolton. Snow levels down to the West Hills in July would be a godsend.

These ones? https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/pdxclimate/index.php https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/GHCND/stations/GHCND:USW00024274/detail