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I'd like to note here that although the I-5 corridor in the PacNW is having a major heat wave, the Olympic Peninsula is having normal temps in the mid-70's. I assume that's because they're closer to the coast, but I haven't studied it. I wonder how the Oregon coast is doing. Portland always has more extreme weather, due to its location away from the ocean: colder winters, warmer summers.
Ocean moderate land temperatures. That's why the center of the US (S. Dak, N. Dak, Minn, etc) have such hot summers and such cold winters (most of the time anyway).
Someone posted yesterday that temps in Port Townsend were in the 70s.
Here on the Kitsap peninsula, temps are as high as ever. In fact, the smoke is clearing out a bit and it hit 80 a lot sooner today than it did yesterday. I think today is going to be the scorcher yesterday was supposed to be.
It's just been a crazy year in general in the northwest. They only had 3 days of sunlight between October and May, and one of the harsher winters on record. The entire city is covered in smoke right now. There's a heat wave that just won't move. They haven't had rain in like 40 days or some such craziness, so their local area is basically kindling waiting to ignite.
That's not craziness, it's normal for Seattle. Summer=90 days without rain. The rain starts in October, typically. Don't deny Seattleites their few rain-free months! What's unusual is the several days of extreme heat. Let's hope it breaks, soon.
Ocean moderate land temperatures. That's why the center of the US (S. Dak, N. Dak, Minn, etc) have such hot summers and such cold winters (most of the time anyway).
Someone posted yesterday that temps in Port Townsend were in the 70s.
Here on the Kitsap peninsula, temps are as high as ever. In fact, the smoke is clearing out a bit and it hit 80 a lot sooner today than it did yesterday. I think today is going to be the scorcher yesterday was supposed to be.
That was me, posting that Pt T is in the 70's. And I asked you where you are presently, planning your move to Pt. T. and if you were retired or not. I'm interested, because I was contemplating a move there, myself.
It's just been a crazy year in general in the northwest. They only had 3 days of sunlight between October and May, and one of the harsher winters on record. The entire city is covered in smoke right now. There's a heat wave that just won't move. They haven't had rain in like 40 days or some such craziness, so their local area is basically kindling waiting to ignite.
Agreed. I live in Kitsap County. It's been almost 2 months straight of sunny, warm days. And, it's supposed to be like that until the end of August at least. Combine with the hazy smoke and the bone dry area, it makes it horrible. This past Winter was pretty bad too, it rained a lot more than normal and was cloudy for almost 6 months straight. But, I can't wait till it cools down again.
That was me, posting that Pt T is in the 70's. And I asked you where you are presently, planning your move to Pt. T. and if you were retired or not. I'm interested, because I was contemplating a move there, myself.
Where are you hanging your hat at moment, Ruth4Truth?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.20a50efe266c
An overpowering dome of hot air has entrenched itself over the Pacific Northwest and is primed to cook population centers like Seattle and Portland in record-crushing heat through Friday.
Excessive heat warnings blanket the western third of Northern California, Oregon and Washington state. High temperatures just inland from coastal locations are forecast to soar to between 100 and 110 degrees.
“We are talking about one of the major sustained heat waves in a long time around here,” writes Cliff Mass, professor of meteorology at the University of Washington. He said that “there is a lot of confidence” temperatures will at least reach the mid-90s in Seattle and notes the GFS model projects a high of 100 on Thursday — a reading he can’t “remember ever seeing”.
Wow! And they're not used to heat like that. The story says that only about a third of the homes in Seattle have air conditioning, and the city is setting up cooling stations where people can go to get some relief. That has got to be hard on the old folks and the little kids. They're hoping that smoke from British Columbia will help cool things down. Smoke from BC? Sound like the PNW is having one heck of a summer.
i $100 AC unit in the window ends the issue. they look like trash but years ago in hotter climate we got by with one and it kept the main living area cool...
it is not FL, even in this crazy heat at night it will cool enough that you can open your windows run a fan and cool down the whole house...
and of course thurday was fine, the massive cloud of ash took care of that, still here today.
No, it is HOT and NASTY on the Olympic Peninsula, & the Kitsap a Peninsula, yesterday was the worst on the OP, and YES, there are MASSIVE fires in British Columbia, and all that smoke is going HERE. Believe people who live in it.
I lived in San Diego in October 2007...there were massive fires all around the city, in the canyons, the suburbs, leaping the freeways, in the mountains. It was brutally hot with smoke & ash everywhere. It was terrifying. It has been like that here this week in Washington. British Columbia is having major issues with their forestry practices, & the consequences are happening in the PNW of the USA. Yes, global warming is real.
Ruth4Truth lives in New Mexico; I don't purport to know what the weather is there.
Late to the thread, but just wanted to chime in and mention that this heatwave didn't affect everyone in I-5 corridor equally. Despite the otherworldly amber skies, here in Bellingham it's barely cracked 80 (82 Wednesday, 81 Thursday, nights in the 50's), and we've yet to actually smell the smoke responsible for the haze. A couple of very weird looking days, to be sure. But not uncomfortably warm, believe it or not.
more proof of global warming...insects will decimate the beautiful trees of the PNW
The Mediterranean is also suffering record heat-- since records have been kept--maybe a century or so. Keep in mind, Caesar didn't see any glaciers when he crossed into Transalpine Gaul 2 millennia ago.
OTOH- we're 10 deg below average here in the upper midwest. It all averages out-- only so much energy hits the planet each day from the Sun and it is unevenly distributed due to the Hadley cell phenomenon and the Coriallis Effect.
And some of us are old enough to remember when only a few bars and movie theaters had air conditioning. We survived.
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