I spent a long time trying to write a creative first sentence for this post. I was trying to make a joke comparing thermal troughs to stock market bubbles, as they bear (no pun intended) some similarities. After all, once a thermal trough has passed to our east, temperatures crash, just like the market corrects […]
Relief On The Way, But More Heat Next Week
The past three days have been exceptionally hot throughout the Pacific Northwest. On Thursday, the coast sizzled in 90 degree heat, with Quillayute hitting 96, Port Angeles and Sequim hitting 94, and Forks hitting 93. While Quillayute and Forks average a day or two at 90 per year, 90s are practically unheard of along the […]
Record Heat Today
Today is going to be REALLY hot. Like, mid-upper 90s throughout Western Washington hot. Places exposed to warm easterly downslope flow and isolated from the water could even soar into the triple digits today, and I’d be surprised if anybody in Willamette Valley stayed in the double digits today. First, let’s go over some of […]
A Very Hot Week!
Good morning everybody! In some ways, this summer and last summer are polar opposites. Last summer, we saw heat wave after heat wave throughout June and July, and this, coupled with a historically poor snowpack from the previous winter, led to water shortages throughout the region and extremely high fire danger throughout much of the […]
Thermal Troughs, Adiabatic Processes, And A Warm End To The Week
Good evening everybody! Today was beautiful! Most locations around Western Washington got into the upper 70s to lower 80s, and some areas east of the crest got much warmer! The Dalles was 96 degrees at 5 pm, but Buoy 46026 off the Columbia River was only 58. The Pacific Ocean sure cools things off! As […]
Crazy Heat East Of The Rockies
For the majority of July, we’ve been nice and seasonably cool here in the Pacific Northwest. We’ve been warming up over the past couple days, and by next week, we may have our first day of the month above 80 degrees! So the end of our “normal” summer weather is in sight. However, while we’ve […]
Warmest Temperatures of the Year To Arrive This Weekend
We’ve had quite a few heat waves so far this spring. This past April was the by far the warmest April on record at Sea-Tac and many other places across the Pacific Northwest. May started out hot and then cooled to more seasonable levels, but with an average temperature of 59.8 degrees, Sea-Tac was still […]
Record Heat Today?
What a change a month makes! Back on the 10th and 13th of March, we had two powerful windstorms roll through the area, with the one on the 10th causing lots of damage to the Northern Interior and creating a lot of coastal flooding and the one on the 13th making my last day of […]
Another Beautiful Week On Tap
Wow, what a change in weather we have had! From the wettest winter on record to two consecutive weeks with temperatures above 70 degrees! Our transition from autumn to winter is swift, but our transition from winter to spring usually takes a little bit more time. It certainly hasn’t taken much time so far! Last […]
Another Heat Record Bites The Dust/Thoughts on The Blob
Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:08 p.m. At Sea-Tac, the last time we had a month that was cooler than average for that month was February 2014. Since then, 20 months have passed, with 19 consecutive months being warmer than normal. That’s right… this September was the first colder than normal month since February 2014. We’ve […]
