Ended up touching 87…looks like onshore flow is starting to trickle in though.

Seattle has a way of being on an island of lower departures, if you will. Maybe Seattle being the first American PNW city to really blow up in population allowed for an earlier onset of UHI influence to compare modern records to. Maybe our position well north of central and southern Oregon has fended off the worst of the northward shifting 4CH influence. Or maybe it's the airport's tendency to draw in a north wind off the sound on hot days with a stronger inland pressure gradient; a weather condition which has seen a surge in prevelance proportional to the summer warming trends we've seen in modern times.

More views from today…A 747 from Mexico City to Anchorage, and a typical lake mystery that I see on most lakes. Abandoned looking cabin but a newer dock…I so want to know the backstory with some of these places.

2024 featured a very warm spring for the eastern 2/3 of the country (my favorite spring of all time too), and it came right on the heels of a strong Nino. The West wasn’t very warm though. Yeah, now that I think about it, it’s going to be tough to beat this past spring in terms of national warmth.

Does tomorrow still look mostly dry? Probably should have mowed today but the lake forced me to stay most of the day.