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
My father's flight en route to PHX is taking quite a bit of a detour down through S MO into E OK...this is a very rare flight path due to the severe wx threat/squall line that has formed...I'm sure its a bit bumpy up there.
https://www.united.com/en/us/flightstatus/details/436/2024-05-21/ORD/PHX/UA
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL436
Future historians will remember this as the year in which the PNW no longer had summer temps over 75 degrees. All the units will need to be shipped to DC
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