A Little Crackle, Boom and Splash

Oh the monotony of summer with those endless days of gorgeous sunshine and comfortably warm temperatures. We needed a little break didn't we? Well we got that to be certain. Yesterday I had 0.47 inches of rain in the bucket and today I had 0.51. That is nearly an inch in the last 36 hours! All that splash was accompanied by the boom and crackle of good 'ole thunder and lightning. ell we hit our average for the month so we should be done, right? Right! The temps were nice and cozy in the upper sixties and low seventies. But that will change here for the last weekend in July. It will be back to those monotonous boring perfect summer days... ho hum ;)

Soak it up my friends, soak it up.

Another sunny and warm day... ho hum... ;)

Summers in the 'Couv' are awesome. Sweet mother of the solar system, look at that sunshiny, golden goodness out there. Ok so it's a security cam picture, so what it still awesome out there :)

We should get more of this through Saturday afternoon but just a tad cooler maybe around 80 degrees. Then chance of summer showers then more sunny yummies after that.

Soak it up my friends, soak it up!

Fabulous warm weather will continue!

Yes it will. But today we are going to have a brief departure from the saucy sunshine and experience some summer thunderstorms. The rumble and boom of mother nature will remind us that the Pacific Northwest is not immune to a little violence in the atmosphere. Hug your pets and batten down the hatches, this will be a brief but bumpy ride this afternoon.

The rest of the week looks like more yummy summerliciousness. I invented a new word. Soak it up my friends, soak it up.

Summerlicious!

Fabulous summer weather continues with 80s all around. That big yellow orb is taking its sweet time as it dances across the sky for 16 hours before offering a long twilight glow to match our warm summer evenings. it is summerlicious!

June is gone and Hello Hot July

The month of June is in the books and it was par for the course. Rain was a touch on the light side and temps were spot on for my 13 year average.

We had just two days with a temperature at 80 degrees or more and a total of only eight hours of eighties. The warmest temp was on the last day of the month with a nice 82.9 degrees. The warmest overnight low came on the evening of the 26th with a comfortable 58.8. The coldest temp came on the 5th with a chilly 45.1 and the coolest afternoon high was a moderate 56.4 on the 17th. we had 15 days with temps in the 70s including eleven in a row from the 1st to the 11th

The rain gauge picked up 1.96 inches for the month roughly a 1/2 inch lower than "normal". The wettest day was the 26th when 0.64 inches fell.

Overall June was pretty uneventful on the weather front. July however has other ideas. My weather station was seriously flirting with 97 degrees today. I had 96.9 this afternoon. What the heck is that all about? The east winds blew on and off and that brought the dry heat from the other side of the Cascades. Don't forget that the center part of the "Evergreen State" is actually a desert!

Looking ahead to the all important 4th of July weekend it looks like a nice warm and dry experience this year :)

That look s real nice... soak it up my friends, soak it up!