Seattle weather could break a heat record this week..

[pnwguy2]

Originally Posted by 41Willys

Sweet!! I'm going to have to find a local swimming spot. I have a town pool, and a pool in my condo complex but they are only 6ft deep and theirs a million kids here. Sammamish lake is rite here, so maybe Ill check that out.



Yeah it was cold this morning. it made for nice sleeping weather.

Exactly. My family in the northend never had AC. We just opened up the windows and set up a few fans.

Today many new houses are being built with AC in the PNW. OK, I get it...they want to to sell new homes, even though AC is only needed perhaps 20-25 days a year. I guess the thought is if you don't use it, you won't pay for it. But, like mud rooms and three car garages, it sells homes,whether you need it or not. It just adds on to the price.

[citizensadvocate]

Its interesting how on the flip side Southwest including SoCal, Southern Nevada including Las Vegas/Laughlin, and Arizona is getting cooler than normal temperatures these days as well as cold rain showers. There was at least one day last week when temperatures in Seattle exceeded that of Las Vegas or Lake Havasu city. These are among the hottest cities in the country.

My guess as for why more homes are built with A/C are that newer homes are designed with A/C in mind unlike older homes. The homes these dayss are almost built like a stuffy green house with alot of windows an almost no cross flow ventilation making even a relatively cool day unbearable inside. As The reason for the three car garages is that more and more master plan communities restrict outside parking and people these days buy as many cars and stuff their garages with all types of storage theses days. It appears most familes require a three car garage even if they own only two cars with all that storage, toys, and bikes they stuff up the third parking space, and its inevitable they own three cars or even more as times goes on. Be glad they offer three car garage. Believe it or not plenty of communities offer a tight 2 car garage yet restrict outside parking. As for mud rooms, shouldn't houses in wet climates have them anyways? Otherwise where do we keep all those wet umbrellas, boots, shoes, raincoats and other items? I am always curious why houses outside Japan and Korea rarely have clear Genkans, it seems a great idea to keep the outside from the inside.

[pnwguy2]

Boots and umbrellas? We didn’t have either in the 70’s! And we survived just fine.

[citizensadvocate]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

Boots and umbrellas? We didn’t have either in the 70’s! And we survived just fine.

Wow, there were no boots or umbrellas in the 70'? I thought those things were invented much earlier than that.

[41Willys]

What's a mud room? Is that like a foyer?

[elkotronics]

A mud room is a small room that has a large sink for rinsing out dirty clothing. It's a room that is an entry room from outdoors where you can peel your wet and/or dirty clothes off so you don't track the dirt in to the house. The large sink is essential to a mud room.

[41Willys]

Originally Posted by elkotronics

A mud room is a small room that has a large sink for rinsing out dirty clothing. It's a room that is an entry room from outdoors where you can peel your wet and/or dirty clothes off so you don't track the dirt in to the house. The large sink is essential to a mud room.

Oh ok! We always called it the laundry room. But also the tiled floor right inside the front door was a safe zone. We would de-gear there then put the stuff in the laundry room to dry.

[Gentoo]

You guys can have the heat. It rained in San Diego during that heat wave LOL

[dav51lin]

scorcher no warm yes

[dozerbear]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

Nothing that unusual for May. Alsmot every year, May has some similar heat waves. They just happen at different times of the month.

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Yes, but that's a fairly recent phenom. That didn't used to happen in May. And now, it's not even the middle of the month yet; the flash heat wave is occurring earlier.

Botev1912 is right, this is nothing we haven't seen plenty of times before. I looked through some weather records and picked four stations that have been reporting for at least 100 years.

Forks: April all time high: 85 in 1934. May all time high: 96 in 1983.

Snoqualmie Falls: April all time high: 90 in 1934. May: 97 in 1983.

Spokane: April all time high: 90 set in 1926. May: 97 in 1928.

Kennewick: April all time high: 95 set in 1910, tied in 1926. May: 104 in 1910.

April and May get pretty warm sometimes, and it's nothing new.