This afternoon’s satellite image looks very autumnal, with a frontal cloud band stretching across the northwestern part of the Olympic Peninsula and cloudy skies over British Columbia. Offshore, white dots indicate unstable air and convection as cold air moves over warmer waters.
Concurrent radar imagery shows a dramatic front-related rain line over the Olympic Peninsula, extending both offshore and into BC. A few light showers in western Washington at the time.
Temperatures have been unusually low this past week, with several cold temperature records broken.
In Seattle, the high temperature was just 59F on Friday, nearly 20F below normal.
Let me show you the places in Washington, Oregon, and California that have broken their daily high and low temperature records over the past four days (i.e., broken their temperature records for a particular day). Many daily cold temperature records have been broken in Washington, but southern Oregon and northern California have just broken their previous cold temperature records for those days.
Now, breaking daily records is unusual, but you know you have a rare situation where a monthly record is broken – and there have been multiple monthly records broken in the last four days. That means the high temperature was colder than ANY day in August.
But what’s really amazing is the sheer number of monthly cold temperature records in California…guys, this is one of those cold temperature records that’s going into the record books.
There was even snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains…it was amazing.
Luckily, I have some warm news for you: the weather is forecast to warm up next week and this weekend will be the perfect time for outdoor activities or barbecues!
In Seattle, temperatures will rise to around 80F on Saturday before dropping to the low 80s next week. Dry weather.
Warm weather will also return to eastern Washington this weekend, as temperatures in the Tri-Cities rise into the upper 90s, before dropping to a comfortable 80s next week.
