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
In this area 2012 was much wetter.
Also you go by calendar year, but water year is a better way to look at it. Though, the water year is still above average here. Just a housekeeping clarification. Really nice to see some snow still in the mountains. Many feet on the ground still up at the Santiam Pass. Of course last year at this time there was more snow in the Oregon Cascades, but then summer started a few days later.
0.59" of rain since yesterday with 0.35" since midnight. Showers and another chilly day in store with temps staying in the 50's for most spots in the county. Clouds and showers but warmer temps look likely for the entire work week with Tuesday looking like the driest day with maybe even some sun at times. Wednesday looks the warmest with temps near 80 degrees.
Chester County records for today: High 94 degrees at Phoenixville (1930) / Low 27 degrees at Phoenixville (1966) / Rain 2.01" at both Nottingham and Warwick Township (2019)
The faucet shuts off every year. Doesn't get much better than +4 to +5 inches above normal at this point in the year heading into the warm season.
And PDX is almost exactly as wet as 2012 to this point in the year now. A year you just defined as ridiculously wet!
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