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The heat waves of April 2016


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Two very impressive events! Here's a selected list of locations that saw their warmest readings on record for so early in the season. Many of the readings for the latter event were also monthly records. 

 

Especially impressive was the 93 at Estacada in the first event, which was easily the earliest 93 degree reading ever recorded in the Willamette Valley. Downsloping was on full display here. Estacada hit 93 again in the second event, but the monthly record of 94 from 1926 survived. Similarly the KQEN station in Roseburg hit 94 in the first event, which was very likely the earliest 94 degree reading on record in western Oregon, and hit 94 again in the second event two weeks later. Just like with Estacada, the monthly record of 95 barely survived - in both cases the monthly record was from the last week of April and was nearly tied three weeks earlier in the calendar. Downtown Portland hit 90 on April 19th, edging out the long standing benchmark for the earliest 90 on record. Previously there had been a tie between April 20, 1906 and April 20, 1934. Other readings that really jumped out were 88 at Clatskanie in the first event - setting a monthly record only a week into April - and the 88 at Anacortes in the second event, which occurred a full month earlier than their next-earliest 88 degree reading. Incredibly, Anacortes hit 90 on May 2nd - which was a month earlier than their next-earliest 90 degree reading. Records at this location go back to 1892. 

 

Event of April 7-8, 2016:

 

94 at Roseburg - KQEN

93 at Estacada

92 at Grants Pass

91 at MFR

91 at RBG

88 at Longview

88 at Clatskanie

87 at SLE

87 at Battle Ground

87 at Forest Grove

87 at Vernonia

86 at Landsburg

86 at Raymond

85 at Tillamook

85 at Portland - Downtown

85 at PDX

85 at Vancouver 4NNE

85 at Aberdeen

85 at Concrete

82 at UIL

81 at AST

80 at HQM

80 at OLM

78 at Laurel Mountain (3,600')

74 at Government Camp (4,000')

 

Event of April 18-19, 2016:

 

94 at Roseburg - KQEN

93 at Estacada

90 at Portland - Downtown

90 at Longview

89 at SEA

89 at PDX

89 at Seattle - Sand Point

89 at Battle Ground

89 at Landsburg

89 at Kent

89 at Bremerton

89 at Oregon City

89 at Vernonia

88 at OLM

88 at Anacortes

88 at Monroe

87 at PAE

87 at Quilcene

85 at AST

83 at BLI

83 at Blaine

82 at Forks

 

 

 

 

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