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
SEA hasn't seen a colder than normal calendar year since 2011.
Since 2003, only 3/21 years (2007, 2008, 2011) were colder than normal at SEA. Those 3 cold years did not balance out the 18 years of warm.
I hope the 18z GFS forecast verifies and it looks nice but I hope 5 degrees colder and a half inch wetter everyday with one of those split day Memorial Day weekend teases on Saturday the 25th where it starts out really sunny and pleasant and then the winds change mid day and it clouds up and it yanks it away really suddenly and viciously from everyone who is out on the lake just like that one weekend we had back in April only colder and wetter.
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