Sunny for the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth…
Summer’s finally getting serious.
For the past two weeks, we’ve been teased with glimpses of summer weather—a sunny day here, a warm day there—but by and large, it’s stayed cool and wet around Puget Sound....
Denied the Bronze
No medal for you, Seattle.
Heading into yesterday, it looked certain that the city was going to receive the .22” necessary to make June 2012 the third-wettest June in Seattle history. A monthly rainfall total...
A Wet Finish to a Wet Month
We might as well end the month the way we started it.
On a gloomy note.
Similar to the first day of June, when .26” of rain fell, roughly a quarter-inch of rain is in the...
June Now Seattle’s Sixth-Wettest
For all you rain-weary Seattleites, it could be worse.
It could be June 1946.
3.90 inches of rain swamped Seattle that month, setting the all-time record for rainfall in June. (The average precipitation for the month...
Cloudy and Cool—Sound Familiar?
The clouds just can’t get enough of us.
First, our promised two-day stretch of clear skies turned into filtered sunshine and haze. Now, a thick blanket of clouds is poised to move into the region,...
Summer Weather to Arrive on Schedule
Mother Nature is trying to make amends.
After bringing us weather more befitting for March at the start of June—in the form of heavy rain and temperatures in the 50s—she’s set on kicking off summer...
As Muggy As the Midwest
What is this, the Midwest?
At 4:30 p.m. this afternoon, the dew point in muggy Seattle stood at 63 degrees, matching that of Kansas City. The sticky air in Seattle was also comparable to several...
