June 2016 Observation and Model Discussion for the Pacific Northwest

[Deweydog]

95 every day the rest of June. 105 every day of July. 100 every day of August. 95 every day of September.

Dodging the 108 bullet?

[FroYoBro]

95 every day the rest of June. 105 every day of July. 100 every day of August. 95 every day of September.

That would be pretty exciting from a weather weenie perspective. Depressing from a human perspective.

[Jesse]

Dodging the 108 bullet?

 

That would wait until October 1st.

[Kayla]

It's settled. 90 days it is.

 

Did Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow?

[Deweydog]

That would wait until October 1st.

Hmmmmm...

 

Almost bold as Tim's not-so-cool July forecast.

[Jesse]

Did Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow?

 

Astoria-Megler Matt saw his pit stains.

[Deweydog]

Did Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow?

Shadows no longer exist in the PNW.

[Kayla]

Shadows no longer exist in the PNW.

 

Explains all these positive anomalies!  

[Jesse]

Really like the looks of the nice, slow cooldown the next few days.

 

[Jesse]

Shadows no longer exist in the PNW.

 

Just like in heaven.

[Anti Marine Layer]

No activity in California today, but this has got to be the first time ever that NWS San Diego posted a Heat Advisory with temperatures mostly in the mid 70s and a nice cool breeze. It was indeed a beautiful day, but definitely not Heat Advisory criteria.

Downtown Los Angeles was even cooler with temperatures mostly in the upper 60s, despite the sunny afternoon there. To be in the 60s on a sunny June afternoon is quite phenomenal here, especially with no large negative anomaly in sea surface temperatures, but there's a first time for everything.

[ShawniganLake]

We almost made it but just fell short! Portland and Hillsboro both got up to 99! We are still about 2 months away from the peak of summer in the PNW so we are just getting started.

Everyone should have just watched the news. Mark nelsen backed off of the triple digit heat forecast on Friday. Looks like it was a good call.

[ShawniganLake]

92F here today. That 92-94 range seems to be about as hot as it gets here, at least over the last several years.

 

Looks like we haven't hit 95 or above since the big 2009 heatwave.

[Geos]

93 degrees with a dew point of 64 in Eugene. Yuck.

 

You were cooking out there today. 64° dewpoint seems pretty high for that region of the country.

[Dan the Weatherman]

No activity in California today, but this has got to be the first time ever that NWS San Diego posted a Heat Advisory with temperatures mostly in the mid 70s and a nice cool breeze. It was indeed a beautiful day, but definitely not Heat Advisory criteria.

 

Downtown Los Angeles was even cooler with temperatures mostly in the upper 60s, despite the sunny afternoon there. To be in the 60s on a sunny June afternoon is quite phenomenal here, especially with no large negative anomaly in sea surface temperatures, but there's a first time for everything.

 

It only reached 71 in downtown L.A. today, which is indeed quite cool for this time of year without much in the way of marine layer clouds.

[MossMan]

Yesterday we had a stiff NW wind all day at the lake keeping things like a sweaty back in check. Today was nearly dead calm so we spent a lot of time in the water or on the jetski. A picture perfect weekend of summer fun! Still low 70's at 10:30pm...love it!!

[TT-SEA]

Yesterday we had a stiff NW wind all day at the lake keeping things like a sweaty back in check. Today was nearly dead calm so we spent a lot of time in the water or on the jetski. A picture perfect weekend of summer fun! Still low 70's at 10:30pm...love it!!

 

 

You are evil for liking extremes of the season.  You would also be VERY excited about being 30 degrees below normal in January with a foot of snow on the ground!

 

It was a beautiful day on Lake Washington with a boat full of kids... no one seemed to mind the heat.  Of course they were in the water for most of the day.  

 

A fun day of making summer memories for them.  

[James Jones]

Eugene's low of 65 last night broke the daily high minimum record by a whopping 8 degrees (previous record was 57 in 1978).  I was unable to determine if it was a monthly record for June or an earliest-date record, although I imagine it was both.

It was indeed a monthly record, and it was the earliest 65 on record by over a month. Next earliest was July 12th in 1990.

 

Though they're down to 67 as of their last update, so it's likely they fall below 65 by midnight.

[Bryant]

00Z GFS was troughalicious!

[TT-SEA]

Here is a pic for you Randy... we had to go into the bay near downtown Bellevue to find a quiet spot.    Lake Washington is insane with yachts and we get bounced pretty good at the peak of the day in our relatively small boat.

 

[Jesse]

Cooling off more quickly this evening.

[BLI snowman]

Looks like PDX snuck in a 100 after all. Cheeky bastards.

[TT-SEA]

00Z ECMWF back to bringing the ULL directly over WA and OR on Friday into Saturday with more substantial rain.    Mostly focused in convergence areas though... no stratiform event it seems.

[Jesse]

It's a no go.

Oops!

[Deweydog]

Oops!

mother****** runways!!!

[TT-SEA]

That ULL for later in the week looks impressive at the 500mb level... but the models are not showing much rain through late Friday night at least.

 

http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/data/gfs/12/gfs_namer_114_precip_ptot.gif

[seattleweatherguy]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/heat-most-us-likely-scorching-summer-133510362.html

 

interesting....

[Jesse]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/heat-most-us-likely-scorching-summer-133510362.html

 

interesting....

Yahoo. The most trusted name in weather.

[Jesse]

GFS MOS shows tomorrow close to 90 too now.

[Farmboy]

Do we really have a long, long stretch of gloomy mid-upper 60-ish weather coming ?  Trying to plan things that require sunshine and mid-upper 70s...  Not too happy.

[MossMan]

Do we really have a long, long stretch of gloomy mid-upper 60-ish weather coming ?  Trying to plan things that require sunshine and mid-upper 70s...  Not too happy.

As things stand now...yep. Hoping for a rebound in late June. I would love to order up another thermal induced heat extravaganza around the end of June/beginning of July!

[Deweydog]

100 looking less likely today.

[Front Ranger]

Everyone should have just watched the news. Mark nelsen backed off of the triple digit heat forecast on Friday. Looks like it was a good call.

Oops.

[ShawniganLake]

Oops.

Cold biased hack jobs over there.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Did anywhere but PDX hit 100 yesterday? I only hit 86 yesterday. 91 on Saturday.

[Deweydog]

Did anywhere but PDX hit 100 yesterday? I only hit 86 yesterday. 91 on Saturday.

 

They were definitely an outlier.  

[Jesse]

100 looking less likely today.

Only a degree rise in the last hour with WNW winds. Maybe we'll get lucky and barely dodge 90 too.

[Jesse]

Looking at the 12z Euro one would almost think the good times are back.

[BLI snowman]

Did anywhere but PDX hit 100 yesterday? I only hit 86 yesterday. 91 on Saturday.

 

Most places in the Portland metro were 96-98 for highs.

[Deweydog]

Only a degree rise in the last hour with WNW winds. Maybe we'll get lucky and barely dodge 90 too.

So adorable...