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
By the time advertised ridging shows up (if indeed it does), it will have been a good 2+ weeks of solidly below normal temps and well above average precip.
Healthy spring. Assuming the period of ridging does materialize, 2024 will likely end up as the most balanced overall spring for the region since at least 2013...maybe even 2003.
Has to be overdone, but Saturday is about as cold as a May day could possibly be on the 12z GFS.
2pm temps of 39 in Longview, 41 in Portland and 42 in Tacoma would be beyond absurd.
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