James Jones

The Canadian is much more reasonable.

98 at PDX. Gonna be a nail biter.

You need to spend a couple years living in the Midwest at some point. Although if you do end up doing that, your heart might explode from excitement.

Ensembles aren't nearly as promising. http://i.imgur.com/SQMZEGW.png?1

September is usually sunnier, though, so it feels more "summery" in that way, but yeah, the lower sun angle is very noticeable. As far as averages: BLI: 66.6/50.3 in June, 66.9/47.6 in Sep SEA: 69.9/51.9 in June, 70.5/52.1 in Sep OLM: 70.6/47.6 in June, 71.8/46.0 in Sep PDX: 73.5/53.6 in June, 75.8/53.1 in Sep SLE: 73.9/49.3 in June, 76.8/48.4 in Sep EUG: 73.2/47.6 in June, 76.9/47.0 in Sep So the farther south you go, the warmer September is in comparison to June. I'd say September is clearly a bit more "summery" in the Willamette Valley than June, while it's about the same for the Puget Sound (with an advantage to June when you get up to Bellingham). September also has less precip days than June at all stations other than Bellingham.

EUG reached 90, and tomorrow looks about the same. If they hit it, they've pretty much wrapped up 11 in a row. Could be even more depending on the timing and strength of the cooldown.

88/60 99/63 96/65 99/65 93/63

Sure, I like summer too. My guess is even Jim and Jesse like our typical summers. And weren't you saying recently that last summer was too hot? Also, slightly better than winter? A normal summer is mostly sunny with lots of days in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Goes without saying that it doesn't really resemble winter at all.

Come on Tim, just let the guy vent. We've just had three years of generally unfavorable weather for guys like Jim, and after a couple months of normalcy, we're back in the midst of what looks to be another record breaking stretch of heat. You'd be pretty annoyed too if we were working on our 4th consecutive 2010ish summer.

Yeah, 10 in 2009. Eugene's record does seem a little weak.

The record is 10, done in 1967 and 1974. The old downtown station had 11 in a row in 1938.

Eugene could put together a ridiculously long streak of 90+ days if things go right. The next few days should be borderline.

I imagine some of these locations are setting all time records for dewpoints?

WRF is suggesting tomorrow could be a bit of a high cloud shocker. Should be a really warm night with those clouds already moving in.

Just wanted to say that this is an interesting discussion. I wish this kind of stuff happened more often on these forums.

Why is that? November owns March out here as far as winter weather potential, while the opposite is true east of the Rockies.

I think Blizzard must have fainted at the sight of the 00z Euro.

Just to illustrate your point: http://i.imgur.com/rmO30OX.png http://i.imgur.com/P1SuDQK.png I'd like to know how this tool handles UHI, if at all, though.

As always with these modern cold anomalies, they're a lot less fun if you're willing to look at the entire period of record rather than just the 1981-2010 averages. Looking at the months you listed based on OLM's entire period of record: 2012: +1.2 (and .5 above normal even using the 1981-2010 averages, by the way) 2011: -.4 2010: -.3 2009: -.3 2007: -1 2006: -1 2002: -.8 2001: -.6 None of these months are particularly impressive. And OLM's period of record isn't even that long, only starting in 1948 - obviously, had they started recording at the beginning of the 20th century, the period of record would be considerably cooler and make these recent Augusts look even less impressive.

Despite the persistent troughing this summer, PDX hasn't had a high in the 60s since June 24. Looks like that's going to change today.

As far as roasting, it's feeling like a warm September kind of year, but who knows. There's decent ensemble support for some kind of warm spell in late August but climo says anything extreme (100+ at PDX or mid 90s+ at SEA) is highly unlikely past the midpoint of the month. Even if September is hot, a seasonable October would be really nice after the massive torching we had in the last two.

Only after the 106 degree high!

Yeah, looks like we're going to be waiting a while though.

Is it just me or are the trees showing quite a bit more color than usual for this point in the summer? I wonder if they're still feeling the stress from last summer and this year's warm/dry spring.

Already down to 61 at PDX.