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 am also going off trends. The ECMWF has slowly evolved from wet and active to showing no systems and sunshine for most of the next 10 days. If you just looked at the models for the first time since last week you might be expecting a death ridge and now it looks much more reasonable. But if you track the ECMWF every day... the slow and steady trend to drier and sunnier over the last few runs is quite noticeable.
The EPS may lean dry but it lacks the granular resolution to resolve small scale precip opportunites. Not that it's wrong, but there may be more opportunities than it wants to let on.
Recommended Posts
Posted by Cascadia_Wx,
18 reactions
Go to this post
Posted by Skagit Weather,
4 reactions
Go to this post
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.