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 don’t know if y’all remember but my idea for summer 2017 was an epic fail of monumental proportions. It was the worst seasonal prediction I’ve ever made.
That was the year of the fluky niño-costero that developed during the second half of winter, before collapsing and reversing to an EPAC niña during the summer. Perfect reversal inside 3 months.
It was an unprecedented evolution in the post WW-II era, and it threw me through flaming hoops upside down and butt-naked. Will never forget that one. Learned a lot from it, though.
I feel it. What’s a wave entrapment event? I was thinking about that heatwave just the other day, and how strange that setup was.
I’d love to go the rest of my life without ever seeing something like around here again. But the fact that we hit 108 again just last August doesn’t have me feeling too great about it.
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