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
Campus protest leader at Columbia calls for “no half measures” in the “total annihilation of the Zionist entity.”
No, wait, that was an Israeli cabinet minister calling for “no half measures” in the “total annihilation of Gaza.“ My bad.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-30/ty-article/.premium/smotrich-calls-for-no-half-measures-in-the-total-annihilation-of-gaza/0000018f-2f4c-d9c3-abcf-7f7d25460000
We are off to a 1.6 degree cooler start to 2024 compared to last year across the Chester County PA reporting sites. However while cooler than last year we are at the 9th warmest first 4 months on record since 1893. The Top 8 warmest are
1998 - 44.24
2023 - 44.22
1990 - 44.0
2012 - 43.7
1913 - 43.1
2017 - 43.1
1949 - 42.8
2002 - 42.8
High here in East Nantmeal was 84.8 - no Airport or MADIS locales here in Chester County PA have hit 90 today. Highest obs was the 87.8 at KOQN airport in West Chester
90's are certainly much tougher to find out here in the Western philly burbs
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