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
Weather summary
for British Columbia
issued by Environment Canada
at 4:16 a.m. PDT Sunday 12 May 2024.
Discussion.
The following areas set or tied a daily maximum temperature record
on May 11, 2024 (temperature values given in degrees Celsius):
KELOWNA AREA (Kelowna UBCO)
Tied record of 31.1 set in 1993
Records in this area have been kept since 1899
NELSON AREA (Nelson CS)
New record of 30.1
Old record of 30.0 set in 1949
Records in this area have been kept since 1904
PEMBERTON AREA (Pemberton Airport CS)
New record of 30.8
Old record of 29.5 set in 1980
Records in this area have been kept since 1908
PENTICTON AREA (Penticton A)
New record of 31.6
Old record of 30.6 set in 2019
Records in this area have been kept since 1907
Our flight from Talkeetna to land on the Kahiltna glacier to start our Denali climb this morning has been delayed until Tuesday due to snowy/cloudy conditions, guess we'll be stuck in this town for 2 days longer than planned.
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