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
Yep. But the overall theme is clear. OR has been MUCH wetter than WA so far this year.
And there should not be any real drought concerns for the vast majority of the PNW after Tuesday.
HQM looks drier than normal there... but actual data shows +3.69 inches for the year.
I don't believe anything for King County. SEA WFO and Snoqualmie Falls/North Bend are right around normal for the year with no missing data.
I really think the WRCC maps always lean drier than reality because it incorporates too many stations with data issues. And missing data for rainfall always skews things drier than reality.
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