July 2023 PNW Observations and Discussions

[ShawniganLake]

31 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Glancing blow next weekend!   Drops from 89 on Saturday all the way down to 81 on Sunday.   

Shocking development given late July climo. 

[YahRaEl]

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, ChrisAmunRA said:

That high level moisture is really moving fast.    Adding decoration to the sky right now though. 

[TT-SEA]

[LowerGarfield]

There is or was a Cougar on Haystack Rock this morning so the whole beach was closed and they had a crew on waterskis on patrol.

https://www.facebook.com/CannonBeachPoliceDepartment/posts/pfbid02ws8ZkXBfy4dm9tUFieezMn38ZTfh2dbhsb3BZBSfTmhbpD2mwGySU4V9fX55xBcLl

Hot weather today, staying inside with my A/C.

[YahRaEl]

25 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Is those trees already changing colors down at the bottom?

[TT-SEA]

7 minutes ago, ChrisAmunRA said:

Is those trees already changing colors down at the bottom?

The bushes in the foreground?   No... that is how they look in the summer when they are blooming and adding new growth.    Photo is deceptive as those bushes are only about 2 feet high.

[ShawniganLake]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

The bushes in the foreground?   No... that is how they look in the summer when they are blooming and adding new growth.    Photo is deceptive as those bushes are only about 2 feet high.

Pieris japonica?

 

78F with a cloudless sky. 

[TT-SEA]

4 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Pieris japonica?

 

78F with a cloudless sky. 

Had to look that up... yep.

[TT-SEA]

12Z ECMWF a little closer with the glancing next Sunday.   Shows wall-to-wall sun that day but only in the mid 70s in Seattle.  Troughing to the NW is a sunny pattern in the summer.    Marine layer is almost non-existent. 

[TT-SEA]

Phil!  You always get lucky.  

Now you need it hold for the next 10 days! 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Headed home today. Was such wonderfully variable weather. Refreshing to feel some substantial rainfall like the old days.

Been a wonderful couple weeks. Looking forward to hopefully one day figuring out a way to work for someone that can help me build some semblance of a career so I could do this more often. I wish it wasn’t so difficult for me but all I can do for work is super repetitive stuff because of this condition.

In any event. Very grateful to have been able to experience the summer variability of the tropics, midlatitudes and extreme NW climates in such a short time. Makes me so much more appreciative of our atmosphere and how it affects us and our lives.

Love y’all and let’s keep loving being weather nerds forever!

[Omegaraptor]

Handsome blue sky here today. Looks like the shade of deep blue you get in central Oregon or northern California interior. Wonderful!

[Front Ranger]

Watching the hapless Rockies take on the mighty Yankees at Coors Field. 85 degrees but sitting in the midday sun, feels like 115. Perhaps Phil can explain. 

[Deweydog]

2 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Watching the hapless Rockies take on the mighty Yankees at Coors Field. 85 degrees but sitting in the midday sun, feels like 115. Perhaps Phil can explain. 

Hmmm. Rockies went 68-94 in 2015. On pace for just about the same or worse this year.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

And the 90F burger is hit at EUG

[Anti Marine Layer]

Shivering in fear of heat waves and their damage to the ecosystem.

 

[Phil]

4 hours ago, Front Ranger said:

Do you think the increase in relative humidity since then also has something to do with it?

Yeah, stronger/broader Bermuda High = more humidity.

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Phil!  You always get lucky.  

Now you need it hold for the next 10 days! 

Please please  

[Phil]

3 hours ago, RentonHill said:

Ya the lack of cool downs sucks and is one of the most noticeable for me. DC has lost a lot of those days. How do you account for UHI when looking at data for your location? What stations is your "olympia"?

 

We don’t have an Olympia.  Closest thing is Martinsburg (KMRB). IAD (Dulles) can still radiatively cool at night, but decoupling is harder with the urbanization across Reston and Sterling.

Ironically DCA appears to have maxed out its UHI potential with the full development of NE part of Arlington. So temperature trends since ~ 2010 are probably more reflective of regional climate trends than most other stations.

 

[Phil]

I’ll be here 8/12-8/27. Tim-tastic.

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KSSI&hours=72

[Omegaraptor]

126°F in Sanbao, Xinjiang, China is a new all time record for China and for any location north of 40°N latitude.

[TT-SEA]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

I’ll be here 8/12-8/27. Tim-tastic.

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KSSI&hours=72

I prefer dewpoints below 60.    Is that what they have there?

And if you and your family willingly decides to spend August in a swamp in Georgia then you get what you get.  

[TT-SEA]

82 degrees here... very thin high clouds still floating around making the sky more interesting.

[Meatyorologist]

53 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

126°F in Sanbao, Xinjiang, China is a new all time record for China and for any location north of 40°N latitude.

Didn't they just have a massive heatwave in May that was in greater magnitude relative to average than our June 2021 heatwave?

[Cold Snap]

Got a pic of Mount Adams and Mount Rainier from the plane. The pic of the closer one is Mount Rainier.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

I prefer dewpoints below 60.    Is that what they have there?

For the most part, yes!

Oh, wait that’s a 6, isn’t it? 60. I thought it was an 8. My bad, never mind.

[Front Ranger]

2 hours ago, Deweydog said:

Hmmm. Rockies went 68-94 in 2015. On pace for just about the same or worse this year.

Rockies win in improbable fashion. Like a record cold month in a RAPIDLY WARMING climate. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

4 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Rockies win in improbable fashion. Like a record cold month in a RAPIDLY WARMING climate. 

What about the Avalanche?

[TT-SEA]

Mid 80s and an interesting sky. Beautiful summer day.

[NWbyNW]

Beautiful all around Western Washington today with some varied weather here and there. Lets look at a few.

WESTPORT. 60F. Overcast.

EVERETT. 72F.

BELLINGHAM. 74F.

SEATTLE. 81F.

ARLINGTON. 79F.

TACOMA. 80F.

LYNNWOOD. 80F.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Flight has been delayed by 8 hours. Now doesn’t leave until 1AM.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Wish I could be on this side of the low and in the d-banding more often.

[Meatyorologist]

4 hours ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Headed home today. Was such wonderfully variable weather. Refreshing to feel some substantial rainfall like the old days.

Been a wonderful couple weeks. Looking forward to hopefully one day figuring out a way to work for someone that can help me build some semblance of a career so I could do this more often. I wish it wasn’t so difficult for me but all I can do for work is super repetitive stuff because of this condition.

In any event. Very grateful to have been able to experience the summer variability of the tropics, midlatitudes and extreme NW climates in such a short time. Makes me so much more appreciative of our atmosphere and how it affects us and our lives.

Love y’all and let’s keep loving being weather nerds forever!

I love this positivity. Much of a turnaround compared to a few months ago. Sometimes getting away can really help. Back in March I spontaneously flew to NYC to escape, you may remember my posts about that... That was surmount in keeping me sane during that time of year.

[Meatyorologist]

This sun is starting to stress me out. Tomorrow is going to be really nice.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Entirely possible that EUG could rack up 12 or more 90F-burgers in a row in the next couple weeks.

[TT-SEA]

10 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

This sun is starting to stress me out. Tomorrow is going to be really nice.

Probably going to be quite sunny tomorrow afternoon in Seattle.

[TT-SEA]

83 at SEA today.    85 out here.

[Meatyorologist]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

Probably going to be quite sunny tomorrow afternoon in Seattle.

Not sure about that. According to all guidance, tomorrow should feature a saturated or near saturated LCL throughout the day, even as mixing grows deeper into the afternoon. The NAM has a stout afternoon marine push on the north end of the city associated with PSCZ activity as the ULL's main axis passes overhead, even with some appreciable (albeit shallow) convection.

At the very least it's going to be a broken sunshine, with a steady breeze and not-so-stifling temperatures. Increased humidity may make the sunbreaks a tad overwhelming for those who aren't wearing just T-shirts, though.

[Anti Marine Layer]

57 minutes ago, NWbyNW said:

Beautiful all around Western Washington today with some varied weather here and there. Lets look at a few.

WESTPORT. 60F. Overcast.

EVERETT. 72F.

BELLINGHAM. 74F.

SEATTLE. 81F.

ARLINGTON. 79F.

TACOMA. 80F.

LYNNWOOD. 80F.

Westport doesn't look that great.

[TT-SEA]

13 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

Not sure about that. According to all guidance, tomorrow should feature a saturated or near saturated LCL throughout the day, even as mixing grows deeper into the afternoon. The NAM has a stout afternoon marine push on the north end of the city associated with PSCZ activity as the ULL's main axis passes overhead, even with some appreciable (albeit shallow) convection.

At the very least it's going to be a broken sunshine, with a steady breeze and not-so-stifling temperatures. Increased humidity may make the sunbreaks a tad overwhelming for those who aren't wearing just T-shirts, though.

Broken clouds is a good description.   But decently warm and I can't imagine a sweatshirt would be comfortable.