Seattle weather: Colder than Siberia!

[gateley]

It doesn't seem fair, but it's the cold, hard truth — accent on cold: While Seattle hasn't seen a 70-degree day in more than two weeks, Fairbanks, Alaska, has had six of them in the past 10 days.

Just about everyone, it seems, is toastier than we are. You've heard of International Falls, Minn., the self-proclaimed "Icebox of the Nation"? It's had four days this month in the 70s, topped off with a pleasant 75 on Sunday. Across the Atlantic, the northern destination of Oslo, Norway, has been passing the 70-degree mark nearly every day recently, while even the Siberian city of Tomsk, Russia, hit the 70s last weekend.

Meanwhile, shivering Seattle residents, hearing about snowplows back at work on Snoqualmie Pass this week, probably have only dim memories of the 77-degree high of May 24, the last time the mercury crept into the 70s here

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004470095_weather11m.html

[Muttocracy]

1. I think we broke the climate. Incredible to be in upper 90s in early June upstate NY. nt

[gateley]

12. "..broke the climate." Perfect! *terrorist fist bump* nt

[Muttocracy]

25. that's how I think of climate change - warming isn't the biggest problem

It's changes in precipitation patterns, seasonal changes, extreme events, etc. that will be far worse for humans and other living things than a few degrees change in average temperature.

[gmudem]

26. NY'er here too

The weather the last few days has just been disgustingly hot. At least it's cooling off a bit today.

[Cha]

27. Yesss, I've been sweltering in that heat

especially MOnday night in my attic apartment. But, it broke yesterday and it feels so good! You too?

Sorry about the cold in Seattle..it's suppose get cooler than normal for New York temps next week.

[rox63]

2. We just had 4 days in a row in the 90's here in MA

I'd trade some of those for a few days in the 70's.

[gateley]

15. Three days of triple digits in Raleigh -- "down" in the 90's today. nt

[LisaM]

3. Tell me about it. It's been freezing.

We are supposed to hit 60 today (maybe) - currently cloudy, cold, grey....on Monday, the precipitation took the form of snow outside my office window (39 floors up) and we've had the heat on every night this week.

Meanwhile, my friends on the East Coast are telling tales of schools being shut down for high temperatures.

Apparently, our temperatures for June are the lowest ever since they've kept track!

[gateley]

17. A friend (in Seattle) says she's still

wearing a heavy coat with a hood. She takes the ferry from/to Vashon, and says the crossing is freezing. nt

[rurallib]

4. We are as toasty as you can be under water - Iowa.

[Muttocracy]

16. I was feeling cranky about hot humid weather and then I heard about the midwest

and figured I shouldn't complain too much! Hope you're OK.

[rurallib]

23. thanks -we're ok so far, but many aren't

wish we could move some to where it is needed.

[Muttocracy]

32. I just saw a national weather map - are you getting MORE rain today? nt

[rurallib]

41. Yes- mostly where it is least needed in Northeast Iowa

some really bad stuff coming tomorrow with really heavy rain. Then I hope a drying period.
Much as '93 the wet stuff started during the winter. The ground was saturated by the time the spring rains even started.

[gateley]

28. Yes - I agree with Joe Is One Of Us --

Here in Raleigh we can pretty much stay in the air conditioning. In Seattle, etc., people can bundle up. But when the floods come.....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. It's going to soar all the way up to 59 down here in Vancouver.

[skooooo]

6. it snowed for about 4 hours in eastern Washington yesterday morning..

It's happened before tho.

[Xenocrates]

7. Damn Climage Change.. Seattle would be all toasty now if Gore didn't get the nobel.. (nm)

[rawtribe]

8. I watched it snow

this morning in my corner of Colorado.

Yesterday it was 75 and sunny.

[Speck Tater]

20. Here's a highway cam in ORYGUN showing the snow here.

http://www.kval.com/news/local/19717289.html

[Mrs. Overall]

9. Tell me about it! Yesterday I had to put the heat on in the house, wear wool socks, drink hot tea,

and use the heat in the car. At noon yesterday it was still 48 degrees and raining with a deep bone chilling dampness. I've even had to turn the winter heat lamp on again in my little chicken coop because my chickens have stopped laying eggs, due to the lack of sunlight.

Also, all of my flowers are nearly a month late in blooming.

Weather usually doesn't get me down, but June (or Junuary, as we've been calling it) has been depressing.

[Muttocracy]

19. dang, I would have sent you some of our heat.

We need some of those pneumatic tubes to send it around where needed.

[Turbineguy]

10. Enjoying the weather

in South Florida!

[pdxmom]

11. Portland isn't fairing much better. And can you believe the number

of lost hikers and rescues that are going on? Unbelievable.

I'm ready for someone to turn off the outside faucet and bring back the sun.

[Xenocrates]

13. This is normal for Portland

Remember that Oregon holds the record for the most different types of rain.. including sideways, and white (express from Mt. St. Helens)

[pdxmom]

36. In the 14 years I've been here, I don't remember it being this chilly

this late and for this long. We're just not getting any warm days. I am an avid yard sale hound and the pickings are pretty slim, because the weather has been so lousy every weekend. Usually by this time, I'm found tons of treasures that other people seem to think should be added to the rest of the junk in my barn.

[windbreeze]

18. and it is a bone chilling cold....we are still using our wood stove

and I am sick of rain...no leaves on the trees until mid May..who ever heard of such a thing in the PNW??? Here it is June...temp a whopping 49 degrees where I am..think I will throw some fish in my swimming pool...forget swimming in it...it's so cold here, that the seeds we planted, will NOT germinate....now I know why I am a moderate...I like moderate in just about everything, including my weather....hello, hello, is anyone listening??? guess not...wb

ps: otoh...things to be thankful for...no bad eq's so far, no floods that result in dams breaking...no heat waves, no tornadoes...

[gateley]

24. Yes - one hiker killed and 2 lost in blizzard on Mt. Rainier.

The ones who survived were still waiting for a helicopter last night -- couldn't land due to conditions. They hoped to rescue them this morning, but I haven't seen any updates.

[LisaM]

30. What on earth were they doing up there anyway?

I mean, they were forecasting snow for Snoqualmie Pass - a foot. I'm sorry for the loss of life, but it is foolish (and selfish) to set out on Mt. Rainier with that kind of forecast. My BIL climbed Mt. Rainier in June once, but it took him two tries because they turned back the first year due to weather - and it wasn't as bad as this year.

[pdxmom]

37. They've been brought down today. Another hiker was rescued on

Monday on Mt. Hood, and I heard on the radio this morning that they were searching for a man whose car was found abandoned in a snow area, but missed exactly where that was.

[Speck Tater]

14. Cool and drizzly for weeks and weeks here in ORYGUN.

It might hit 70 tomorrow, but I'm not counting on it given the weather service track record.

My poor tomato plants are just marking time in the lack of warmth.

[Growler]

21. I put my air-conditioner in a month ago...

When we had 90+ degree weather one weekend in Seattle.

Now I'm turning the heat on at night. Aaargh!!

[AteAlien]

22. Two weeks of 100 degree + weather here

with no moisture.

[gblady]

29. huddled near heater....

in 4 layers, wool sox, and hot tea on Bainbridge Island...
it's bone chillin' cold!
about 15 minutes of sun yesterday...good to know it still exists.

[Trailrider1951]

31. Trade ya!

It's been 100 fricken degrees here in Austin for the last 3 weeks, with more to come next week, and it ain't even SUMMER yet! I just hope Seattle stays cool during the first two weeks of July when I'm there visiting my son and his family. I just cannot wait to see my new baby granddaughter!

[Muttocracy]

33. NOAA: U.S. Has 36th Coolest Spring on Record

I know it was a very cold May here, but June is turning out the opposite:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080606_ncdcspring.html

[SpiralHawk]

42. AZ and NM may be 'normal' by those reckonings. But...

The damn wind has been HOWLING and HOWLING for months on end...Spring winds are typical in the Southwest, but this is something else...

Not that any republicon homelanders give a shit about fact-based observations...

[Muttocracy]

43. well, increased energy goes somewhere and wind is one place

if not temperature increase, could easily be wind increase if there are greater temperature differentials driving the wind. Interesting.

[IDemo]

34. It's Junuary here in Idaho

They showed a snow covered highway on the weather report last night in the high country. It was 40 degrees this morning at my house in Boise.

http://www.wunderground.com/US/ID/McCall.html

[FVZA_Colonel]

35. We still make sacrifices to the sun gods up here in the Emerald City.

I only hope they like fish.

[countryjake]

38. We are totally socked in here, Cascade foothills, snow this morning, 50 degrees at 11 am...

our garden is officially freezing to death (and drowned).

[SeattleGirl]

39. I think it's my fault.

I bought some outdoor roller skates, and the day they were delivered, the weather here went to hell in a handbasket.

Sorry.......

:hide:

[Blue_In_AK]

40. It may be warm in Fairbanks

but it's colder than a well-digger's a** in Anchorage, and there has been snow within the last couple of weeks in Western Alaska. I think this is a coastal phenomenon going on. We're essentially running at least two weeks behind on our gardens here.