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I thought that today was supposed to be cooler but it is still very warm and sticky.  Showers and thunderstorms are popping up on radar and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw some rain by day’s end.  The current r […]

Everything seemed right for record high temperatures at Portland. We had offshore winds to prevent any cooling from the Pacific Ocean and a massive ridge overhead with insanely warm temperatures aloft. But with […]

Weather Summary Wednesday 08.02.17:  Mix of Sun & Clouds, Hot and Humid. Thunderstorms started moving thru at 3:01 pm..The High Temperature reached 85.7°F at 12:32 pm…Heat Index High: 93°F. ..Humidity Hig […]

Wednesday brought with it partly cloudy, warm, humid skies with a light thundershower sometime in the afternoon that went basically unobserved but partially filled up my rain gauge with 0.15″ of water. Stronger […]

We had a few thundershowers pass just south of our location overnight getting everything wet.  We didn’t expect it and it appeared at bedtime that most would stay to our south, but we got a surprise.  It wasn’t v […]

Tuesday ushered in the new month of August with partly cloudy, warm, more humid with a brief light thundershower in the early afternoon. Stronger storms fired up by late afternoon, but were isolated and missed my […]

Heres Tuesday – August 1, 2017s

Lowest Barometric Pressure : 30.04″ at 5, 7, 8 p.m.
Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.10″ at 9 a.m.

Lowest Relative Humidity : 53% at 1 p.m.
Highest Relative Humidity : 97% at 12, […]

FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL INDEX FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA

Monsoonal moisture will be increasing through midweek, providing the fuel for scattered shower and isolated thunderstorm development over most of […]

We have been very lucky so far with our weather, but rain is in the forecast for Thursday, the day we are leaving.  I hate packing up in the rain and I hope that it holds off until we leave.  Today will be nice a […]

Monday was a sunny, dry, but increasingly warmer and more humid day with only scattered fair weather cumulus floating around at times. Now at 0650 we have clear skies and somewhat pleasant temperatures in the […]

Weather Summary Monday 07.31.17:  Mix of Sun & Clouds, Hot and more Humid. The High Temperature reached 87.8°F at 5:23 pm…Heat Index High: 93°F. ..Humidity High: 97 %… Humidity Low: 46%…Dew Pt. High: 68.9°F […]

UPDATED AT 9:45pm Tuesday, August 1st, 2017 –

Hazy conditions are have a little bit of an impact on projected temperatures…While the forecast are still going for around 98-100º for Seattle, I am going to go […]

This past Sunday, I headed up to Hidden Valley Camp, an old-school summer camp in the Cascade foothills of Snohomish County, WA for “Visitor’s Day,” a day where families of campers and other visitors can visit […]

Here it is, the last day of July, and it seems like summer has just begun.  It’s hard to believe that some schools will be starting in a few weeks and we will start seeing the trees start to show color.  I’m not r […]

Sunday was a sunny, pleasant, dry day with very little cloud cover most of the day. Now at 0515 we have clear skies and pleasant temperatures in the low 60s, with dew points in the still comfortable 60° range. […]

Heres Sunday – July 30, 2017s

Lowest Barometric Pressure : 30.00″ at 12 a.m.
Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.09″ at 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., 11:59 p.m.

Lowest Relative Humidity : 43% at 6 p.m.
Highest Relative Humid […]

I REALLY was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this blog, and I’m not going to put a lot of time/effort into this one. Let’s just keep it short: the heatwave for early August has gone from merely “mentionable” to […]

I REALLY was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this blog, and I’m not going to put a lot of time/effort into this one. Let’s just keep it short: the heatwave for early August has gone from merely “mentionable” to […]

FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL INDEX FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA

A weak monsoonal flow will produce a few isolated thunderstorms

in the mountains this weekend. The showers and thunderstorms may

become more […]