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Seattle logs record string of 70+ degree days
NW Cable News ^ | 08/25/03 | Staff Writer

Posted on 08/25/2003 1:44:01 PM PDT by bedolido

SEATTLE - Seattle tied a record Monday for 49 straight days of temperatures of 70 degrees or higher.

Meteorologist Jeff Rood with the National Weather Service says it's "iffy" whether the record will broken. The forecast high for Tuesday is only 71 degrees and a few clouds over Sea-Tac Airport could make all the difference.

But if the string holds, the forecast is for warmer weather so those 70s days could run into September.

The old record was set in 1958 in roughly the same time period - from July 9 to Aug. 26.

Rood says Seattle temperatures have been a couple of degrees above normal this summer, but it's not that far out of the normal variation. He notes some parts of the country have been much hotter.

It's also been dry in Seattle. Precipitation at Sea-Tac since June first has totaled less than an inch - 0.89.

The driest June through August was 0.84 in 1987. Records at the airport go back to 1945. Taking a look at record from the Federal Building in downtown Seattle, which started in 1891, the driest June through August was 0.65 in 1919.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 70; days; degree; record; seattle
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To: Publius
Yea, and we had smog. Yea. That's it. Lot's of smog. So thick you couldn't see the muggers, see?
And plagues of locusts. and frogs fallin from the trees.
Better go to Portland. It's MUCH nicer there......
21 posted on 08/25/2003 2:21:52 PM PDT by rockrr
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To: Eala
And don't forget the one major snowfall we have every two years or so where nothing moves because nobody knows how to drive on snow.
22 posted on 08/25/2003 2:22:46 PM PDT by Publius
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To: bedolido
People in Seattle are a bit goofy about the weather. When the temperature reaches 80 degrees on a summer day, it's the top story on the local news, and when there's a flake of snow in the winter, the TV reporters fan out all over the countryside looking for snowflake #2.
23 posted on 08/25/2003 2:23:27 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: Eala
mist, sprinkle, drip, drizzle, rain, shower, downpour

Don't forget freezing rain and black ice.

24 posted on 08/25/2003 2:23:28 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.)
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To: angry elephant
Actually, I'm in the Ban Roll On building on the SouthWest corner of 2nd and Seneca. I'm only willing to give this info "publicly" because my contract ends this Friday. My 3 month contract became 2 years...

Which one is the Seattle Tower?
25 posted on 08/25/2003 2:25:53 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: rockrr
Better go to Portland. It's MUCH nicer there.....

Yes Portland... the San Francisco of the Northwest. Where they ask men if they've had breast implants as a normal doctor's office admitance form.

26 posted on 08/25/2003 2:26:15 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.)
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To: bedolido
Despite the weather, there are lots of nice things to see in Seattle: Vancouver, Victoria, and the San Juans.
27 posted on 08/25/2003 2:29:00 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: shotgun
And how about 1993? We were house-sitting a friend's house in Kirkland; we couldn't mow the lawn until August because it was perpetually underwater. (We thought about taking a picture in swimsuit, snorkel and lawnmower to send them...) Summer was a bit shorter than usual that year -- two weeks as I recall.

And of course it arrived just in time for the big PNW Highland Games -- heat and changes in humidity are death on bagpipes.

28 posted on 08/25/2003 2:29:09 PM PDT by Eala (Annoy PETA -- go on the Atkins diet.)
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To: shotgun
I'm from Moses Lake. I know what you mean. Over there it's not the heat that makes it uncomfortable, it's the wind.
29 posted on 08/25/2003 2:29:10 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: bedolido
Don't forget freezing rain and black ice.

And freezing fog...

Did any else notice that the morning fogs started earlier this year?

30 posted on 08/25/2003 2:31:30 PM PDT by Eala (Annoy PETA -- go on the Atkins diet.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
my wife and I are planning a vaction in Victoria sometime soon. I love the Seattle and Portland areas. If it wasn't for Boise and my church... I'd move back to Portland.
31 posted on 08/25/2003 2:31:36 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.)
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To: bedolido
Fear not Seattle people you can contemplate this while paying the new 10 cent tax on espresso coffee.
32 posted on 08/25/2003 2:36:56 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Eala
We moved over in April of 1997 and I was going to fertilize the lawn. Well like everyone else in the Tri-Cities you buy a bag of hi-nitrogen 33-0-3 and spread it. I read the bag and it said don't water for 24 hours so I check the weather and of course it was going to rain the next day so I applied it. Of course that is the one week that the temp hit in the high 80's and my water pressure at my house was only 20psi do to a bad service line, that my yard actually burnt up and I finally had to re sod it to get it to grow.

Our neighbors would actually come out and ask if we "were okay" on the "hot" days because we would be out working around the house. Once we cut down an over grown snowball tree in our backyard and it was literally blocking out about 3000 square feet of possible sunlight, they came running out asking what happened because the nice shady corner was now bathed in sunlight and it would kill their plants that were intolerant to sun light!!

33 posted on 08/25/2003 2:41:27 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Eala
We moved over in April of 1997 and I was going to fertilize the lawn. Well like everyone else in the Tri-Cities you buy a bag of hi-nitrogen 33-0-3 and spread it. I read the bag and it said don't water for 24 hours so I check the weather and of course it was going to rain the next day so I applied it. Of course that is the one week that the temp hit in the high 80's and my water pressure at my house was only 20psi do to a bad service line, that my yard actually burnt up and I finally had to re sod it to get it to grow.

Our neighbors would actually come out and ask if we "were okay" on the "hot" days because we would be out working around the house. Once we cut down an over grown snowball tree in our backyard and it was literally blocking out about 3000 square feet of possible sunlight, they came running out asking what happened because the nice shady corner was now bathed in sunlight and it would kill their plants that were intolerant to sun light!!

34 posted on 08/25/2003 2:41:30 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Publius
"You know what they say: "Liberals, the other white meat.""

Yeah, but when you clean'em you'd better be sure to remove the odor and poison glands, and even then I'd expect to catch "mad cow disease" from their spongified brains.

35 posted on 08/25/2003 2:41:41 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: bedolido
Man, I am roasting here in Northgate (north Seattle) today. Got the balcony door open and the mini-fan on next to the computer. The sky is so bright blue I've had to draw the curtain next to my desk to cut down on the glare.

Personally, I am sick of all this sun. I want the clouds, I want the mist, I want to be able to take a walk w/o it being 80 degrees outside. I want to go outside w/o my stupid little sun hat.

Also, unlike the east coast where people know how to deal w/heat, the Seattlites are like the French - not an air conditioner to be found. I couldn't even buy one because my relatively new apartment complex isn't wired for the increased load of A/C.

The university offices aren't air conditioned, the buses don't have air, what the heck is wrong w/these people???

I moved here for the rain and misery. Wha' happened???
36 posted on 08/25/2003 2:41:56 PM PDT by radiohead
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To: RobRoy
We now live in West Richland, but I commute to Sunnyside, the cow$%*@ capitol of the state!! WHEW WEE!! it stinks here.
37 posted on 08/25/2003 2:43:54 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: xp38
>>Fear not Seattle people you can contemplate this while paying the new 10 cent tax on espresso coffee. <<


Baseball permanently lost my business after the first strike. Seattle area Starbucks, et-al will likewise lose my biz when the tax goes into effect. I know it's not their bad, but it's where it will get the most attention.
38 posted on 08/25/2003 2:46:29 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: xp38
Fear not Seattle people you can contemplate this while paying the new 10 cent tax on espresso coffee.

Haha. I know people who were against any show of force in Iraq but will friggin' kill you if you raise the price of their latte.

39 posted on 08/25/2003 2:46:51 PM PDT by radiohead
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To: bedolido
Beautiful place, awful people

(Freepers excepted, of course.)

B.C.

(Born and raised in Seattle. Happy resident of Fargo, ND. Never Going Back if I can help it....)
40 posted on 08/25/2003 2:47:34 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (This Islamo-fascism has been brought to you by Saudi Arabia!)
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