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
Hyperbole is not the answer here.
No one said heatwaves don't kill. They do, especially extreme ones like 2021.
That doesn't change the fact that the study cited was sus, and logically attributing 3 weeks of excess deaths arbitrarily doesn't add up.
Well that was many hours ago of course! I wasn't really paying attention to the radar... but the rain did stop and the sun peaked out a few times at my mom's house but it was raining lightly again by time we left. I was probably being a little too optimistic in the moment assuming the main front had passed though.
Wow no sun peaking out down on the water front. We did have a couple of brief periods where there was no precip, but it was at least drizzling pretty much all day. We did have a couple of periods of moderate rain, I caught a picture of this gal waiting out one of the heavier bands of rain. She definitely had the right idea.
No one said heat doesn't contribute to deaths. Sometimes directly. It's just that the media will stretch the reality as far as they can for maximum shock value.
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