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
I went to Liberty yesterday and it's obvious it's been dry and cold over there since the last time I was there. The snow on the mountains didn't change much in two weeks, but the roads were dusty. It did rain a few hundredths while I was there though. Coming home I noticed the high peaks going over the pass had a pretty decent amount of snow on them.
I can't imagine anyone on here wants a total repeat of that. That was one of the most extreme anomalies on the planet this century so it's not likely anyway.
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