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Looks like a lovely place except for their summer weather. Some stats... they average only 5 days a year above 70 degrees. Their driest month is June... but August is quite wet already and September and October are the wettest months of the year. Their average low in the winter is 32 and the average high is 40 and they typically have 19 days with snow per year. http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/6581609fbb8241b08d36dc9a28aae4a3/aerial-view-of-sitka-and-the-pioneer-home-with-sitka-channel-and-dock-bcj3n6.jpg

Fairbanks looks lovely though...

And then you have Sitka... their forecast has looked the same all summer. This would be a bad November forecast here.

Nature is messing with us this year... rains almost non-stop for months and then completely shuts off. Floods and fire. Be nice to have an occasional soaking rain once in awhile during the summer. I think it might start turning smoky soon depending on the upper level flow.

Quite the marine layer day across SW WA and NW OR. Its been sunny here all day... low clouds made it up to the back side of the ridge behind our house but never crossed that barrier.

It was a little wetter than normal for the Puget Sound region for May/June combined. But if you want to include all of the inland areas then you can say the PNW in general was drier than normal. That does not mean much to us here though. It was normal to slightly wetter than normal overall in our area... but it was all focused in the first half of May and 2 days in June.

I understand your general point... but you can't cherry pick days to remove from your analysis. If we remove a couple days this past winter then SEA had no snow.

Pretty sky this morning...

We could use a cloudy day with some drizzle. And a Monday would be perfect!

Just my house?? Remember... blue does not always mean below normal here in the summer. And sometimes red can be below normal. Go figure!

00Z ECMWF now has a solid marine layer day on Monday. That is a change from previous runs.

I agree and have said so numerous times. Summer essentially started on May 19th this year... that was the day it completely flipped in terms of rain being the exception rather than the rule.

That was a really wet couple days though.. and it was a November-like conveyor belt.

Yeah... feels that way. Its rained on about 10 days in the last 50 days at SEA. But May was above normal and June was almost perfectly normal in terms of total rain. And SEA is running 9.21 inches above normal for 2017 so far! We will see what August and September bring. I was fully expecting this to turn into a very dry summer after the record setting persistently wet spring and this is about what I was expecting.

My sons had a fireworks show with their friends on Tuesday night here. We were out in the yard this morning and could smell smoke. A spruce tree in a planting bed in front of our house was smoldering and turning black. Two days later! We doused it with water and in an hour there was smoke coming out of it again. We ripped it out and set it in the driveway.

I am not forgetting that. Its called summer. Rain stopped in mid June which is typical. Whether we had a couple minor rainfalls of .05 to break up a streak is irrelevant. Its typically pretty dry from mid-June through August. In a few weeks... rain becomes more statistically likely. I will enjoy the break in the rain as long as it wants to last. Although I would prefer a soaking rain once a week. At night and followed by a sunny day.

It is quite impressive how the faucet just completely shut off with nothing in sight. I think something similar happened in 2012 starting in early July.

Had the really big rain a couple weeks ago... over 2 inches here. It would have to go another 3 months without rain to offset the 3.5 months from February through mid May when it rained almost every day.

00Z GFS back to a hot solution later next week after a brief cool down.

55 degrees and rain and wind every day is November... not summer. And they have mosquitoes to the extreme in Alaska. No Phil... I don't want winter in the summer and I don't want to melt. Luckily I live in an area where 75-80 degrees and sunshine and low humidity is the default summer weather.

He is in Redmond Oregon... which is very different than Redmond WA.

Both suck. Sitka sucks worse though. I could find summer activities in DC.

Really been a lovely summer in Sitka...

This kind of evolution is what I was sort of expecting after such an incredibly wet and persistently wet spring... but Phil was really driving home the idea of extended troughing through July. It just did not make sense (using local history as a guide) that it would stay wet and cool through most of summer as well. But Phil is usually right. I am glad the AAM crash did not produce long-term, deep troughing in the West as was expected. 1994 was the only other example of a major AAM crash in June and it turned warm and dry right afterwards... but that year is not good match with other factors.

Deception Pass on the north end of Whidbey Island yesterday evening...