BLI snowman

Yeah, big heavy thunderstorm events suck. I prefer our normal drizzle. As best as I can recall, the mild, sunny pleasantness wore out its welcome for me in roughly mid September 2014. The welcome mat has yet to be brought back out.

I'm not too invested in what the weather does or doesn't do at this juncture of the year. I'll care more in October when fog, crispiness, and cyclogenesis become a real life possibility again. Another important note: September 2013 wasn't crap. That was a rare dynamic stretch of weather for our region. I hope you really soaked it in when it occurred.

I'm just being a cold hard, conservative realist. Nasty thing is that even a cool September generally means a week or more in the 80s for you.

Dry heat + warm blob induced lows. Theme of 2015 so far. Summer really doesn't end until about October 10 in NW OR anyways. Lots of 85+ events have happened in that early October timeframe. It'll take a few more months for the river and lake temps to get remotely cool, also.

Likely will be a long payoff for this come mid September to mid October. Lots of dry heat in that period.

Cooler weather is good for firefighters, 60mph, gusty winds are not. Not rocket science. The winds will have to die down and steady up a bit before they can catch more of a break. A longwave trough with higher humidity would in fact be good news right now.

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The .04" at UIL really jumps out.

I'd imagine their snowfall averages are pretty similar to Bainbridge Island since they don't get quite the benefits from cold air damming that that side of the Sound gets. But they definitely get more shower and convergence zone activity, and their elevation should help with certain wet bulb events, so overall it's likely fairly close.

I'm no expert but I'd imagine firefighters are always a bit aided by cooler temperatures and steady wind direction. High wind speeds can have a detrimental impact of course, but the problem often is the varying wind directions and speeds that make it difficult to build a stable front line. Steady NW winds and cooler temps could help them gain some ground.

Cheering on 560dm heights could be the equivalent of setting the match yourself. Hello high elevation frost, bye bye Twisp.

A severe marine push would probably be about the worst thing right now, next to the North Koreans invading. The cost to boaters and firefighters alike would be high. Fireboats in particular would be hard hit.

The problem was that the ULL was wimpy in terms of precipitable water. Most of the region got d*ck in the way of rain from it and from the mountains eastward all the associated convection with it was dry and it stayed warm.

I think they still have 1 more to tie it. Believe they are at 17 and their record is 18.

You can look it up under NowData at the NWS website http://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=pqr A cursory glance at their obs so far this year shows them trending cooler than PDX most of the time, so they don't seem on pace to break the annual record. That seems contrary to the historical trend in Portland, where downtown is often warmer during summer days. EDIT: I think I counted 16 of them through yesterday. Way behind PDX, a lot more 88-89 degree days downtown.

24 in 1967. Their temp data from 2009 is really sketchy but they may have tied it that year if not for that.

1941 is another one with the bottom falling out while AK saw a huge ridge. We had had a very hot summer that year.

1977 and 2004 both were similar. Massive ridging into Alaska (it hit 86 in Kenai on 8/21/1977) while the storm track moved SE into the PNW. It's unlikely, but a possibility. As you know, those were both El Nino years with long warm periods before the bottom fell out in late August.

No first-hand experience but in my time of radar and observation watching it seems like Mountlake Terrace generally does okay with the convergence zone, not usually the winner in those events though. There are occasions where the PSCZ will remain more north over Everett or Lake Stevens, but your area is often at least scraped by it on the southern edge. For example, in some past prolific convergence zone dumps http://www.komonews.com/news/local/6182426.html They reported 4" in March 2007 http://www.komonews.com/news/17940574.html 4" in April 2008 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/40917007.html Apparently only 1" on 12/18/2008, may be bogus though http://www.komonews.com/news/local/36371689.html About 1/2" reported wth the first wave of March 2009 snow

Nevermind what PDX is doing. A certain station that a certain someone cares an awful lot about is dangerously closing in on tying their annual record of 18 days over 90 from 1967. Going to be a lot of chewed nails this week, that`s for sure!

Just to make it more interesting, I`ll say both stations have to be below their all-time averages in the same month. Gotta be a genuinely cool month in other words. None of that pansy November 2014 type crap.

Dewey/Warren '48!

My friend who lives in some huckleberry bushes under the OLM sensor still talks about how much more impressive the great summers of the past were at his house (namely August 1977).

Hey guys! It's been a real long while since two things have happened: 1. Having a really sweet poll on here 2. A cooler than average month! By most counts across the region, the last one was way back in February 2014. There's toddlers that are talking now who weren't even born then! So what do you guys think, will we break the streak soon?

Quite the crapload of lightning between Olympia and Chehalis.