Seattle logs record string of 70+ degree days

NW Cable News ^ | 08/25/03 | Staff Writer

[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.

[cajun-jack]

AMEN i live straight across I-20 in west monroe La. it is 80 or more by 8 a.m. a 70 degree day would bring out jackets lol must be that damn global warming al gore warned us about...sell ur suv and go fishing.

[Publius]

Do you eat clams? Oysters? Mussels? Octopus? Squid?

They're all mollusks.

Just like slugs.

[Redbob]

BFD.

Here in North Texas it's been 99+ every day for over two months now.

And this is a "cool" summer.

[djf]

yes, no, yes, no, no.
We were out crabbing on Hood Canal, everybody wanted oysters, I musta shucked over 150 oysters, didn't touch one. Don't eat boogers.

[rwfromkansas]

Oh how awful.

It was 110 here a couple days ago...with humidity despite hardly any rain.

[Steve_Seattle]

It's true that extreme weather of any kind is rare here, but there are too many Fourths of July when it's 65 degrees and overcast. But there's no place better in September and October - 65-75 degrees and generally sunny. But come November . . .

[freekitty]

What does 70 degrees feel like?

[Mr. Mulliner]

See, to me, the ideal weather day is 68 degrees. Overcast is fine with me. I just don't want to deal with the weather than makes you drip sweat or freeze.

I know one thing that bugs a lot of transplants to Seattle is the lack of sun. It never bothered me at all, even though I came from western Nebraska where we had lots of sunny days.

When my youngest daughter was 3, we moved to Hawaii for a few months. Our first day there we were eating outside at a picnic table and she looked up and said, "What's that funny blue stuff in the sky?"

Yep, Seattle kid for sure.

[CyberCowboy777]

Is it anything like escargot?

I can eat Clams and I am okay with Calamari (Fried only), but Oysters, Mussels, Escargot are all nasty.

[CyberCowboy777]

It is cold.

We had a few 90+ days here in SW Washington\NW Oregon and the whining can still be heard.

[TheBattman]

Same thing!

[radiohead]

Did you know that Seattle is the sun glasses sales capital of the world

I read that! I figure they just couldn't take the sun after months of clouds and rain. : ) I've had the same pair that I moved up here with - an organized conservative compared to the scatter-brained liberals who generally populate the area...

[Ann Archy]

Trees???? What Trees??? There's no trees in Seattle!!! It's been de-forrested!

Lakes and Bays?? What Lakes and Bays and other waterways??? They dried up long ago>

Mountains??? Two Mountain ranges??? And Mt. Rainier rising up so grand it takes your breath away....uh, no...we don't have any stinkin mountains here. Flat desert......nothing to see here....just move on.

[Ann Archy]

Portland....where the men are men and so are the women.

[Eala]

Less Seattle lives on, I see.
(But for my part, I'd want FReepers moving here to displace those others...)

[CyberCowboy777]

Portland - Little Beirut

[Eala]

Argh!

Lesser Seattle lives on, I see.
(But for my part, I'd want FReepers moving here to displace those others)

[shotgun]

I am an ex-steamfitter welder (15 years under the hood) and don't wear them. I figure the UV light from welding has made me a non-sensitive to the sunlight, heck I barely squint when I am out and about. I have a pair though and I think I've worn them twice this year...

[angry elephant]

The Seattle Tower is the 1927 art deco building at 1218 Third Avenue.

[RobRoy]

That thing is so cool! I am a real art deco fan and have been an admirer of that building for some time.

Not enough, apparently, to know it's name, however...