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 think it’s more spectacular that the “boom” heard was the flashing of water to steam, namely Spirit Lake. What didn’t flash into steam was part of that tsunami that was hundreds of feet high. Heat shock likely killed Johnston & Truman before their brains registered pain.
I was a 1-year-old living in Kelowna, so I was years away from appreciating the significance of the event. After seeing a 10 year anniversary special on TV, I got hooked on this event. My folks remember that in the southern interior of B.C. that the sky got hazy. Not black like southern WA. The sonic boom wasn’t heard in the southern interior, but it was heard in the Fraser Valley.
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