Gorgeous sunset from Mt Tabor park. Lots of big, downed trees on the north and east side of the park from our ARCTIC WINDS three weeks ago. But honestly the damage wasn’t quite as bad as I feared. I guess the historic shelter took a pretty good hit but that part of the park was cordoned off.
I was intrigued so I looked up the average high and low temperatures across WA for August of 1899. Olga's average low of 45F is pretty impressive as it's about 4 degrees colder than anything we've seen in the last 50 years. The fact it's so much colder than every other location on the west side does make me wonder if there was an error with the thermometer at that time or maybe it was just incredible cold winds blowing off the straight.
The Seattle average high for the month was almost 10 d
One of the better thunderstorms in years tonight. Tons of hail, non stop lighting and thunder for 40 straight minutes. I am guessing around 2" of rain with the amount of flooding we had.
I think the Willamette valley could have a climate comparable to the Sacramento Valley (albeit wetter) but as @Omegaraptor has suggested, the climate of the Puget lowlands will probably be closer to the inland bay area (more maritime). All just speculation of course.
Only one 80+ day so far for DEN this year, and that was a month ago. Been a pretty nice, variable spring.
Getting to the time of year when 90 becomes possible...hopefully we hold that off for a couple weeks longer.
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