The Waning days of Summer

This latest round of 90 degree weather may be our summer swan song. Temps are expected to drop 15 degrees or so over the next few days and we may even see a little wet stuff over the week end. September is a month that is generally quite pleasant. Sure we will have a little rain mixed in with sunshine. But the real indicator that change is eminent is felt in those cooler September nights. Enjoy the last of August and as I always say, soak it up my friends; soak it up.

Heavenly

Yeah, that's about the size of it these past few days. Just perfect warm but not hot summer weather. This is why we endure the dark and gloomy winter :) Soak it up my friends, soak it up.

Absolute Steambath Today

It was a steamy day in the 'Couv' today with temps close to a hundred degrees and humidity working to poach us like an egg. My weather station reported a high of 98.4 degrees and humidity that hovered in the 50% range all day. It was a three shower day, eh? Fortunately this Houston, Texas impersonation is rare here in the Northwest and we should be back to normal by Wednesday. Soak it up my friends, soak it up :)

Summerlicious just keeps on delivering!

The weather continues to live up to the delicious standards of the Pacific Northwest. My wife and I enjoyed some time up in the San Juan Islands last week and the weather was fabulous there as well. Temps ran a bit cooler in the way north but still nice warm 70s.

Locally we continue to enjoy temps hovering in and around 80 degrees by day and mid fifties by night and that is just heavenly.

Things are quickly going to change according to the national Weather Service in Portland. The heat will come with a fury starting tomorrow and into Monday. Then some moisture will arrive and the setup up for thunderstorms will be ripe  later in the week.

Soak it up my friends, soak it up :)

Warm and Toasty July

The month of July is in the books and the month of August began with a thunderstorm this morning that brought big bolts of lightning and some good old fashioned window rattlin' thunder.

We are smack dab in the middle of the dog days of summer and the weather is performing a masterpiece. As for July we had a pretty average month. Over all the temps both low and high were about two degrees above my 13 year average with 57.83 and 81.59 respectively. The hottest day of the month was the 1st with a toasty 96.9 which happens to be the hottest of the year thus far. The warmest overnight low was 62.2 on the 7th. The chilliest day was the 23rd with rain and a cool 61.7 for the high. The chilliest overnight low came in at a nippy 50.7 just eight tenths of a degree from the 40s. We had just 3 days in July above 90 but a whole slew of gorgeous 80s that add up to half the month.

On the rain side of things it was almost spot on my 13 year average for rain with 1.01 in the bucket just one hundredth of an inch off the average. All of the rain came in a short  48 hour window beginning on the 22nd and ending early on the 24th.

Overall that was a spectacular July and let's hope we get a repeat in August!