May is done, hello June :)

May was a fickle month with periods of summer like warmth and sunshine as well as cold and showery weather more attributable to early spring.  The first two days of June however were outstanding with sunshine and mild temps in the low seventies.  Let's hope the "Rose Festival" low decides not to show up this year.

Last month's numbers tell a tale of inconsistency. Despite what may have felt like a warm month or a cool month it was a little of both and averaged out to be just about normal.  The average overnight low came in for May at 48 degrees and daytime highs average to 67 both figures just a smidgen higher than my twelve year average.  May did manage to put 5.15 inches of rain in the bucket and that was nearly as much as both January and February COMBINED.  Most of that precipitation fell at the end of the month.

The coldest morning of the month was May 1st while we had a FROST advisory and a low temp here at 33 degrees.  The hottest day in May was just four days later on Cinco de Mayo with a toasty 86.1 degrees.  The coldest daytime high was May 22nd where the mercury was stuck in the forties the best it could muster was 46.5.  The warmest overnight low came on May 12th with a balmy 58.1.

I am certainly looking forward to our glorious summer weather that surely will arrive sometime around Independence Day.  In the meantime, soak up the sunshine because the National Weather Service has dropped the rain and delivered this juicy forecast for us to enjoy.

Not bad for June my friends and the best is yet to come.  June is the beginning of those really long days here in the Northwest.  Today we will have fifteen and a half hours between sun-up and sun-down.  Tomorrow El Sol pops up at 5:22 and will hang out until 8:54.  We will continue adding daylight until the Solstice in three weeks. I love that summer twilight at 10:30, don't you?  If you like astronomy then it kind of sucks, because astronomical twilight ends at 11:43 at night and begins again less than 4 hours later at 2:42 in the morning.

Get out and soak up that sunshine while you can.  You know I will :)