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
I’m sure you can get some crazy west winds down the Wenatchee valley during onshore flow regimes in the spring and summer. I know Ellensburg is notorious for their winds. They get a similar effect down the upper Yakima.
My partner and I were just talking and we thought it was kind of funny, it’s been crazy windy all week, but no Wind Advisory had been issued. It was finally issued today for tonight into tomorrow, and it’s the first night all week that it’s dead calm. Definitely a nice break though, my allergies are killing me over here.
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