Current Weather Situation in Seattle? (Bellevue, SeaTac: neighborhood, buy, live)

[angelenogirl]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Thanks for all your comments, so far, folks! So, is the verdict, that it's hotter than the online weather sites say it is? Mid-80's through Tues, dropping down to the 70's for the rest of the week? Is that off-base? Accu-weather says it's 66 degrees right now, in the late morning there, and that it was in the high 80's earlier in the week, with 1 day above the 80's (91).

IDK about you guys, but I'd almost kill for mornings in the 60's, even if temps did jump into the mid-80's later.

It has been much hotter than the weather sites say. I've now just resigned myself to it being in the 90s if the forecast says 84+ degrees. I have pictures of my car temps. The hottest was 99 degrees, which I posted on Facebook (my L.A. friends were incredulous). I'd post it here but I'm not sure if we're allowed to do that?

[thatguy950]

Originally Posted by angelenogirl

It has been much hotter than the weather sites say. I've now just resigned myself to it being in the 90s if the forecast says 84+ degrees. I have pictures of my car temps. The hottest was 99 degrees, which I posted on Facebook (my L.A. friends were incredulous). I'd post it here but I'm not sure if we're allowed to do that?

Yea driving through the Issaquah area yesterday and day before on I90 (moving at full speed, so no heat soak from sitting) my car said it was hovering around 95f both days, so definitely hotter than downtown of course, and hotter than forecast

[CrazyDonkey]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

They actually said it reads cooler than it should after inspecting it. And this is not something shocking. SeaTac is warmer than a lot of other neighborhoods.

But said it was "within the tolerances the Weather Services requires," or functioning properly.

[CrazyDonkey]

Hey, Botev1912, why are you ignoring my explanation for why I was not ignoring you???? Not satisfied? (You called me out twice, after all.)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by angelenogirl

It has been much hotter than the weather sites say. I've now just resigned myself to it being in the 90s if the forecast says 84+ degrees. I have pictures of my car temps. The hottest was 99 degrees, which I posted on Facebook (my L.A. friends were incredulous). I'd post it here but I'm not sure if we're allowed to do that?

OK, then. I guess my friend in Sea. is vindicated. That's really tough for people to live through without A/C. He has a basement workshop, and he says it's hot down there, too, at those temps. Just curious, is anyone here running one of those portable indoor A/C units? How well is that working out?

[Ira500]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

OK, then. I guess my friend in Sea. is vindicated. That's really tough for people to live through without A/C. He has a basement workshop, and he says it's hot down there, too, at those temps. Just curious, is anyone here running one of those portable indoor A/C units? How well is that working out?

I've got a couple of the portables, they work fine. I'm grateful to have it, considering how hot it's been. On the day it hit 92 in Renton, the portable A/C was set at 68, and it seemed comfortable, but I run hot anyway, prefer it 70 or under.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Ira500

I've got a couple of the portables, they work fine. I'm grateful to have it, considering how hot it's been. On the day it hit 92 in Renton, the portable A/C was set at 68, and it seemed comfortable, but I run hot anyway, prefer it 70 or under.

Thank you, Ira.

[Scrat335]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I've been following the weather in Seattle the last few weeks, to see if there will be any unusual heat waves, like last summer, or if things have settled down to more or less normal. So far so good, pretty much; the rest of this week is expected to be in the mid-80's, which is normal for this time of year, then next week is expected to drop down to the 70's. But a friend in Seattle tells me this week has been in the 90's, and the local news has been saying, that the next 10 days will remain in the 90's.

I figure if that were true, the topic would have come up on our forum...? What's your take on this?

I live in Auburn, my base (workplace, the shop) is in Tacoma and territory where I cover calls is Seattle. I get all over the place you might say.

Greater Seattle is HOT. It's 90+ by 3 pm downtown and in the greater Seattle area. Other places are not so bad especially if you're close to water or in a large park. Downtown Tacoma was actually quite pleasant Thursday.

If you're in downtown Seattle and it's hot take a look around you. Concrete and asphalt everywhere. Reflective glass on a lot of buildings, wind restricted to the canyons made by skyscrapers. Get close to a wall in some places and you can feel the heat radiating from it. Very few green spaces around and what they do have is pathetically small.

I have asked people if the summers have gotten hotter in the last 10 years. Most long time residents remember a much cooler climate in the 1990s and early 2000s. It seems the climate is in a warming trend or getting warmer in general. I'm not going to gripe. I remember a long time ago my daughters complaining about endless summer rain.

The way we're doing things isn't helping either.

We'll survive though.

[Scrat335]

If people are suffering from the heat they need to get out of those apartments and the congested areas. Go to a park, in downtown Tacoma it can be 90, in Pt Defiance in the forest it's 70. Natural AC.

If you can't just get your short wet and wear it.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Scrat335

If people are suffering from the heat they need to get out of those apartments and the congested areas. Go to a park, in downtown Tacoma it can be 90, in Pt Defiance in the forest it's 70. Natural AC.

If you can't just get your short wet and wear it.

Discovery Park, Lincoln Park, Golden Gardens, possibly? Is it really that much cooler in those places?