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
Been really nice and it looks likely to continue that way through the end of the met season. Quite balanced here overall, locally it's leaned slightly warm but nothing remotely egregious. Only complaint would be the near total lack of convection. Last couple springs had a lot in comparison, though they were mostly front-loaded with cold core stuff.
Definitely much more enjoyable than 2022. Really close to climo in terms of sunny days and days with rain and temps... but leaned drier than normal overall. Probably drier than normal because dominant flow has been from the NW and not for a lack of troughing.
Spring 2024… a spring notable for how remarkably average it has been, in a season that in our region is typically defined by variability and temp swings.
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