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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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It amazes me that such a beautiful area can achieve such a normal (for most other US cities) temperature record. Guess Seattle wouldn't be so beautiful without all the rain... but 49 days of 70+ weather is a sad record.
1 posted on 08/25/2003 1:44:01 PM PDT by bedolido
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Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!!!!! Now you'll have everybody moving here.

For the record it rains every day. We don't tan, we rust. The state tree is a fungus.

(Jeez, bedolido, what are you trying to do?!!)

2 posted on 08/25/2003 1:47:49 PM PDT by Publius
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To: bedolido
I bicycle commute to downtown Seattle. This little fact has not been lost on me. It nas been spectacular! Just this morning, I came out of the showers in Wamu Tower and looked at the blue sky and the golden sunlight iluminating the glass and granite of the "an roll on building" and said to myself, "Our culture really is a beautifully gold plated garbage can." Except for the garbage can part, it was truly wonderful, and a thing I have enjoyed for, what, 49 days now.

If it weren't for the politics, Seattle would be next to perfect.
3 posted on 08/25/2003 1:48:43 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: Publius
Oh no! Now I have GUILT!

My bad. It was downtown SAN FRANCISCO I was really talking about. Yeah, that's the ticket.
4 posted on 08/25/2003 1:49:41 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: Publius
I'm from Portland and understand. My brother and his wife live in Tacoma and other relatives live in Bellevue and Olympia... They tell me Seattle gets 36" of rain a year (like Portland).
5 posted on 08/25/2003 1:49:59 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.)
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I thought we get around 110" a year? (Seattle Region)
6 posted on 08/25/2003 1:52:59 PM PDT by cmsgop (If you Sprinkle When You Tinkle,...Be a Sweetie and Wipe the Seatie......)
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I live near Dallas, TX. I think we have had more than 49 days in which the temperature has not gotten below 70 degrees. Probably hasn't been below 80 degrees very manydays .
7 posted on 08/25/2003 1:55:27 PM PDT by Charliehorse
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To: bedolido
I remember THAT sumemr of 1958.....and, yes, I have web feet.
8 posted on 08/25/2003 1:56:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Vote Democrat ....... pay for our drugs, travel, and total retirement life! Ha hahaha ...fools.)
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9 posted on 08/25/2003 1:57:55 PM PDT by cmsgop (If you Sprinkle When You Tinkle,...Be a Sweetie and Wipe the Seatie......)
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I thought we get around 110" a year? (Seattle Region)

Is Seattle Really The Rain Capital Of The World?

quote: "Seattle's 37 inches" (out of context, however, check out site.

10 posted on 08/25/2003 2:01:25 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.)
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To: RobRoy
What floor are you on in WAMU? My office is on the 17th floor of the Seattle Tower across the street. Our balcony looks out at the WAMU.
11 posted on 08/25/2003 2:02:02 PM PDT by angry elephant
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Is this 70 degree celcius. If not, what's wrong with "70 degrees?" I think that's a verrrry comfortable temperature.
12 posted on 08/25/2003 2:03:17 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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You mean it isn't raining outside today? I haven't taken off my rainjacket in 4 years.
13 posted on 08/25/2003 2:05:15 PM PDT by lelio
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AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Global warming!!! Run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!!

(sorry, couldn't pass it up)

Hb
14 posted on 08/25/2003 2:08:46 PM PDT by Hoverbug (whadda ya mean, "we don't get parachutes"!?!)
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Is this 70 degree celcius. If not, what's wrong with "70 degrees?" I think that's a verrrry comfortable temperature.

It's an excellant temp. Nice that Seattle can know what it's like to have good weather :)

15 posted on 08/25/2003 2:08:58 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.)
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Perfect weather. The best summer vacation I ever had was in the PNW.
16 posted on 08/25/2003 2:09:34 PM PDT by Moonman62
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To: Publius
Correct. It's awful here.

And the place is crawling with liberals. They are everywhere. You can't eat a bowl of rice with chopsticks without one popping right out of the bowl to accuse you of denuding a rainforest.

We have scary volcanoes and earthquakes too. We drink expensive coffee, and when we do, our breath smells bad.

Never come here. OK, come here, spend some dough, and then go.
17 posted on 08/25/2003 2:13:20 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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You can't eat a bowl of rice with chopsticks without one popping right out of the bowl to accuse you of denuding a rainforest.

The last time one popped out of a bowl of rice, I chomped into him. You know what they say: "Liberals, the other white meat."

18 posted on 08/25/2003 2:15:58 PM PDT by Publius
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I lived in Bothell the year, 1998, we had 110 days straight of measurable rain, which broke the then record. It stopped for one day and started again for like another 50, to my best recollection....

Man you folks over there must really be getting your monies worth from your fans this year. Are the news stations still doing live reports from the department stores about the shortage of fans. I think they do that story every year for the one "hot" week a year....

Try living over here on real "eastside" of the state and not on the east side of Lake Washington!

19 posted on 08/25/2003 2:17:22 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Publius; bedolido
Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!!!!! Now you'll have everybody moving here.
For the record it rains every day. We don't tan, we rust. The state tree is a fungus.
(Jeez, bedolido, what are you trying to do?!!)

Not only that, there are our absolutely gorgeous Seattle winters -- commuting for hours and hours at 5 MPH (when you're moving at all) in the interminable dark rain, never seeing daylight unless you step outside, never seeing the sun for months at a stretch.

And there's the spectacular variety of precipitation to enjoy. Most places just have "rain," but in Seattle we get to enjoy and discern the differences between mist, sprinkle, drip, drizzle, rain, shower, downpour and more, all coming with various combinations of the modifiers "light", "intermittent", "heavy", "times of" and more.

And once a while a "sun-break."

20 posted on 08/25/2003 2:19:43 PM PDT by Eala (Annoy PETA -- go on the Atkins diet.)
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