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
18z Euro made a clear move upstream towards the 18z GFS and 12z CMC. I think we'll see that troughing return to the D5-10 range by either tonight or tomorrow.
@TT-SEA By the way things are really blooming right now. Saturday will probably be the best day of 2024 with the plants fully greened out alongside 80F weather under uninterrupted sunshine. If this ridge goes double-barrelled like some guidance suggests we will be starting to dry up by the end of the whole warm spell.
If Phil's proclamation for a return to troughing and seasonable westerlies by the 25th rings true, we'll get to see if a late Spring wet pattern can save the lawn. I haven't really experienced a Spring yet where we dried out and warmed up into the 70s/80s for a couple weeks only for the bottom to fall out during the latter portion of the season. Lately we've been unable to turn that 'Summer switch' back off.
We tallied just 0.15" of rain here from this last troughing sequence. Basically the worst case scenario with lots of underperformances and very near-misses. It's quite unfortunate for this time of year, but what can you do. We still have a solid month and a half of a defined midlatitude storm train to contend with before it goess full cutoff randomness by July, so here's to hoping!
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