August 2023 Weather in the PNW

[YahRaEl]

Would love a 1954 summer or at least 2011

https://climate.washington.edu/climate-events/1954-the-year-without-a-summer/

[MWG]

[Phishy Wx]

1 minute ago, Phil said:

That would surprise me.

Socal media saying strong TS or weak 1

 

yet to be seen but pretty unprecedented regardless.

 

perhaps staying so close to the baja coast is helping, water is warmer, waters at Santa Monica Pier are currently 72, I know 80 is generally threshold, but 72 isn't exactly frigid. 

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

Socal media saying strong TS or weak 1

 

yet to be seen but pretty unprecedented regardless.

 

perhaps staying so close to the baja coast is helping, water is warmer, waters at Santa Monica Pier are currently 72, I know 80 is generally threshold, but 72 isn't exactly frigid. 

Plus its now a strong hurricane and will have forward momentum.    Of course it will be weakening but maybe not fast enough.  

[Cold Snap]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Officially 91 for a high at SEA. 

4th consecutive day of 90+.  Not sure how many times that has ever happened but it's pretty rare.  The annual average is only 3.   I know the record was 5 until last summer when SEA had 6 consecutive days at 90+.

Didn’t SEA hit 89 on the first day of this heatwave? If so they were pretty close to making it another five day streak. Which I think has only happened four times there.

[Cold Snap]

21 minutes ago, ChristheElohim said:

Would love a 1954 summer or at least 2011

https://climate.washington.edu/climate-events/1954-the-year-without-a-summer/

It hit 80 flat at SEA twice that summer. That was the warmest it got that summer. That summer is probably impossible to pull off nowadays but it would be quite the blessing if a repeat of that summer happened sometime soon.

[TacomaWx]

Down to 82 here cooling off quick. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

79.2˚F.

[Dave]

88 with a humid 65 dp.

[Cold Snap]

Still 90 out here.

[MWG]

 93F still and visibility of 2miles because of the smoke. Already have a headache because of it. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

53 minutes ago, Phil said:

That would surprise me.

Yesterday the forecast was for Hilary to reach category 3 and become post tropical on landfall. Now it’s forecasted to become a category 4. I think if it can somehow reach category 5 it will make landfall as a hurricane.

[Phishy Wx]

dang

 

 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

50 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

Socal media saying strong TS or weak 1

 

yet to be seen but pretty unprecedented regardless.

 

perhaps staying so close to the baja coast is helping, water is warmer, waters at Santa Monica Pier are currently 72, I know 80 is generally threshold, but 72 isn't exactly frigid. 

Good points. The 18z GFS track would be brutal for Southern California.

[TacomaWx]

78!

[RentonHill]

5 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

dang

 

 

I think that’s what I’m looking at…maybe

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, Phishy Wx said:

you saying his data is wrong?  what's your beef.  keep spewing BS

BS? Calm down. I had the same complaint about his data as others.

Do you not believe there's such a thing as a climate change alarmist?

[Tyler Mode]

A nice marine push happening now, even showing up on radar.

Down to 84 as of 715 PM.

[BLI snowman]

24 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

Good points. The 18z GFS track would be brutal for Southern California.

San Diego storm surge!

[T-Town]

74 here and dropping fast. 

[TacomaWx]

5 minutes ago, T-Town said:

74 here and dropping fast. 

Should be dropping slower soon…Shelton down to 70 while it’s 73 here. Still a pretty nice crash…15 degrees in about 2 hours here. 

[Tyler Mode]

Down to 79, feels so good.  5 degrees in a half hour.  Took till after 10 for this last night.

[Phishy Wx]

55 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

BS? Calm down. I had the same complaint about his data as others.

Do you not believe there's such a thing as a climate change alarmist?

Didn't say that I didn't believe in alarmists.  what he posted wouldn't be what I would qualify as such. imo

 

But when was the last time Portland has had heat waves like this in 3 consecutive summers?

 

I'm asking cause i've only been in the PNW for 6 years

 

edit:  I meant Portland

[Cloud]

Goodbye 8/13-8/17 heatwave! This was a good one even though SEA didn’t break any records. That’s kinda crazy.

[AlTahoe]

I am in the cone of uncertainty! lol

 

 

[jcmcgaffey]

Road tripping this week and currently in Jackson. After lots of heat and smoke finally have some good thunderstorms and currently pouring which rain falling over the gutters. Really miss this weather. Such a nice reprieve. Sitting out in the front porch of the rental getting rain blown and not caring one bit. Wife thinks I’m crazy though. 

[GHweatherChris]

2 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

He is obviously using at least 83 or maybe lower as the threshold for extreme heat because that is the only way the 2009 event could be 10 days long.     That seems like quite a stretch to use the term extreme heat considering the average in Seattle gets up to about 80 in the summer.  

Well you used to consider anything over 75 as hot and uncomfortable so....

[T-Town]

PNW AC on full blast. Down to 70. A few sunset shots. 

[TT-SEA]

4 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Well you used to consider anything over 75 as hot and uncomfortable so....

Yeah... not true.   And not the point of critiquing the wording in that tweet.

[TT-SEA]

25 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

Didn't say that I didn't believe in alarmists.  what he posted wouldn't be what I would qualify as such. imo

 

But when was the last time Portland has had heat waves like this in 3 consecutive summers?

 

I'm asking cause i've only been in the PNW for 6 years

 

edit:  I meant Portland

I agree with pointing out the extreme nature of the last 3 summers.  

[YahRaEl]

Current temps here in Eastside Tacoma from the various of WX Stations/Obs around. 70-75°

[the_convergence_zone]

We’ll eventually have a summer below the 1991-2020 normal again but I wouldn’t expect another one below the 20th century normal in our lifetimes. Those days are over. 

[GHweatherChris]

11 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... not true.   And not the point of critiquing the wording in that tweet.

Uh, ya, you have said in the past on more than one occasion that anything over 75° becomes uncomfortable.

[YahRaEl]

Amazes me the temp range we can have here in a small coverage area of Eastside Tacoma I know it's typically warmer down at the TPUYR station that's down by EQC/I-5 than the others especially at night. Plus it ranges from 14ft at the lowest end and 428ft the highest end I'm about 263ft where I am. Surrounded by woods from Swan Creek Park

Showing this cause of the difference in each WX Stations me not having my own I just throw a range of temps instead of one particular temp. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

74.1˚F.

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Uh, ya, you have said in the past on more than one occasion that anything over 75° becomes uncomfortable.

Literally no.   But I do think over 85 is completely unnecessary.   Sweet spot is upper 70s to around 80... in my opinion of course.

[GHweatherChris]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Literally no.   But I do think over 85 is completely unnecessary.   Sweet spot is upper 70s to around 80... in my opinion of course.

You literally just said the other day 90 is just warm, which would mean 85 is cool. Can't deny that one.

[Meatyorologist]

My hot take(s), since no one asked.

The last decade of summers have been unprecedentedly ruthless.

AGW is warming our summers substantially. The last decade is consistent with this trend and fits the curve.

UHI heating is disproportionately increasing our temperatures during the summer, especially at night. You can factor out a few degrees give or take. This still results in jarring warming.

A nineteen phiphty phour redux is off the table. Maybe. Definitely at the big airport stations. A similar pattern configuration at the 500mb level is almost guaranteed for a repeat sometime eventually, as the stochasticness of nature requires, but the temperatures read then would simply not happen again in our urban corridor today. Sorry. RIP

[Meatyorologist]

1 minute ago, GHweatherChris said:

You literally just said the other day 90 is just warm, which would mean 85 is cool. Can't deny that one.

...could just be 'less warm'

[Phishy Wx]

29 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I agree with pointing out the extreme nature of the last 3 summers.  

and I'm pretty sure that was the intent of that guys tweet 

Edited August 18, 2023 by Phishy Wx