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
Congratulations Tanis! Glad to have atleast one great meteorologist on this weenie fest website, you have a bright future ahead of you in the PNW meteorology biz.
Back to civilization now after a successful 12 day climb of North America's tallest peak, Denali, home of some of the most extreme weather on the planet, with my 4 great friends Roger, Matt, Scott, and Aaron. For the first half of the climb we were very lucky with the weather and only needed 9 days to get enough good weather days to acclimatize and summit on the evening of the 20th. After we reached the summit we got about 20 minutes of clear sky -28 degree weather with light wind until a cloud moved in on us. Every day since then has been pretty bad climbing conditions but okay for decending, forecast calls for not a single good summit weather day until atleast the 30th so the 20th was our last summit chance for quite a while. Coolest temperature we observed on the trip was -43 and if I had to guess I'd say the highest wind speeds were only in the 80sMPH, typically you'd experience atleast a couple days with 100+MPH winds.
Feeling blessed to have had a successful trip with great weather and no injuries on the team. When I tried to do it back in the late 80s we had HORRIBLE weather for almost the entire 3 week trip and could never summit.
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