Seattle hits 102 -- Welcome to the hottest day ever

[Newsjock]

Source: KOMO-TV

SEATTLE -- It's a day for the weather history books. For on July 29, 2009, Sea-Tac Airport hit 102 degrees just after 2 p.m. for the hottest day on record in Seattle, with records stretching back to 1891.

The previous records were 100 degrees set July 20, 1994, July 16, 1941, and June 9, 1955*.

It's the second all-time weather record set on Wednesday in Seattle. The lowest temperature recorded so far today was 71 degrees, and it's a safe bet we won't drop below that before midnight tonight. That means we have shattered the record for warmest low temperature which was set... Tuesday.


Read more: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/51988007.html

[Suich]

1. Yup! And it's 91 in my living room with a fan running!

I'm afraid to go upstairs!

:crazy:

[Junkdrawer]

3. How's the snow on Mount Rainier doing?

:shrug:

[Suich]

10. My next-door neighbor summited Rainier last weekend

and he said it was freezing cold!

:)

[bahrbearian]

50. Still a lot of snow up there for this time of year, with this kind of summer.

we had a big snow fall this last winter and spring, but it will soon melt.

[pnorman]

36. 95 in my downtown apartment.

I have an evaporative cooler right by me at this moment, but it isn't much help (90 degrees)

pnorman

[tridim]

2. How is the humidity?

I'm guessing it's high. That's gotta suck.

[PatGund]

26. 24% right now

[regnaD kciN]

42. That's an improvement -- it was 36% yesterday...

The east wind raises temperatures, but dries out the air.

[pnorman]

39. R.H 35% here. Not too bad.

n/t

pnorman

[Catshrink]

4. I just talked my my aunt in Seattle

She doesn't have air conditioning but she's going to the movies and then to the mall where it will be cool. Smart lady. It was 115° here in Arizona yesterday and 108° today but we're used to it and it's a dry heat.

[Bumblebee]

33. you also have ACs -- we in Seattle usually don't :-(

[Matariki]

37. Nobody has air conditioning in Seattle

I do however have a recipe for Vodka Rosemary Lemonade which should make up for it a little.

I heard that every single fan has been sold out this week.

[regnaD kciN]

43. That might not be the best idea...

Alcohol hurts the body's temperature regulation system. It may sound like a good idea to have a tall cold one, but it could prevent your body from fighting off heatstroke.

[tavalon]

63. And every portable air conditioner

I checked since I sleep during the day. Today, I'm squatting in the doctors call room at work so I can sleep before my 12 hour shift tonight.

[timeforpeace]

5. Isn't weather unpredictable? Record breaking cold for July in other areas of the country.

No way to predict or control, that's for sure.

[tabasco]

47. LOL.

You're funny.

[timeforpeace]

49. Chicago doesn't think their record cold July is funny!

[monmouth]

6. Florida is much cooler than that..89 right now....n/t

[Andy823]

7. Wow!

I live on the other side of the mountains and it's 92 here, and I was in Wenatchee all morning, and they expected it to get to 100 there, but Seattle with 102, that's just insane! Wonder how many right wingers over there are thinking about "global warming" today?

[Bigmack]

55. Notice that NONE of our fabled

TV weather people are saying jack shit about climate change.....

[yowzayowzayowza]

8. Welcome to Houston!!!

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

30. Been there, done that.

I'm happy in Boston, thankyouverymuch!

:hi:

[SnohoDem]

62. ROFL

:rofl:

I've been in steam baths that were cooler and more comfortable than Houston!

[GiveMeFreedom]

9. 107 here, so what!

[Bobbieo]

17. It's only 107 degrees in Yuma!!! This is the coolest summer I have seen in 30 years.,

[mrs_p]

18. so what is that

over 100 is extremely rare in the PNW. you live what, 1000 miles south of seattle, where that type of weather is normal? give us our freak out.

[regnaD kciN]

44. Also...

...I'll bet every house and apartment there comes with central air, or at least a window unit. Housing in Seattle practically never does; in fact, most houses are designed for holding in the heat (for winter). Even when this heat wave breaks (which may be as late as a week from tomorrow according to current forecasts), it will still take a day or two for most newly-built houses up here to have their internal temperatures return to normal.

It's not just a "freak out," it's that the whole infrastructure here makes extreme heat a lot harder to deal with than in the southwest or other places were as much emphasis is placed on cooling systems as on providing and maintaining heating.

[mrs_p]

60. exactly

my mother and grandmother moved into my 1920 home in west seattle and only fans can cool them - even when it is only 85, we roast. hardly anyone i know has AC. now, a wood burning stove, we got.

[MrBlueSky]

11. The view from the Eastside (South Bellevue)...

It's nice and toasty here in South Bellevue...

Last winter, we had to cancel Christmas due to a freak snowstorm that stranded (most of) the populace in our homes for two weeks and finally receeded around about New Year's Day.

At the time, I said that I cannot wait until the heat wave in July (to make up for the snow.)

IMHO, there should be one 90 + degree day in summer for every snow-filled day and/or night in winter. Not gonna happen here in the Puget Sound area, but it ought to! It's only fair!

But for today (and all of this week - the Weather Service extended the Excessive Heat Advisory to Friday at 6 pm from Thursday at 6 pm), I be one happy camper! Viva la HEAT!!!!

[Howardx]

15. my folks are in east bellevue, interlake high area

they had 102 around 10 this morning.

[onehandle]

12. That's bullshit! What about when the Earth was formed!

Not to mention when a dwarf planet hit the Earth and formed the Moon?

Why are the Liberal Media such liars?

[StatGirl]

35. LOL! (nt)

[Duer 157099]

13. I just hope that shit ain't coming south

Send it east or something, but pleeeeze don't let it go south

[mrs_p]

14. it is upside down day

it's 59 degrees here in fort collins, while by house back in seattle is probably unbearable. i should be happy i'm here instead, but hope grams and mom are OK.

[ohio2007]

21. meanwhile, they have a spin on the climate issue "down under". Outback knows hot but its winter ..

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Global+warming+religion+First+World+urban+elites/1835847/story.html


They have a right to their opinions

[mrs_p]

22. as a scientist

i follow where the data take me. there are always outliers, just like this guy.

[timeforpeace]

52. Only got to 57 here, should be 97 on July 29.

[madamesilverspurs]

53. Sent my sister an email asking "How are things in Arizona?"

She lives in Pt.Townsend, WA. And here in Greeley, like FC, we've got their weather. Upside down indeed.

[Duer 157099]

16. I just checked on WU, and it's currently 102.7 there

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=seattle&wuSelect=WEATHER

at nearly 4pm. Yikes.

[Swede Atlanta]

19. But Global Warming doesn't exist.....

Many of the right wingers have been pointing to the unusually wet and cool Spring and Summer in the Northeast as evidence that global warming is cyclical and a farce.

What they fail to understand is while it is called global warming because the overall average global temperature is higher by some few degrees Celsius, the result is catastrophic.

It doesn't necessarily mean that it is going to be hot everywhere. What it means is that due to the increase in average global temperatures you will have much more erratic weather, more extreme weather (hot and cold) and yes, on average, the temperatures are going up.

I lived in Seattle and never missed A/C because even when it would climb into the upper 80s on a pristine summer day, there was low humidity and once the sun went down the temperatures plunged to the point that you needed a light jacket in the evenings to be outdoors and I would arise in the middle of the night to close the window because I was cold.

I now live in Atlanta and am of course surrounded by A/C everywhere. For those of you living in places with higher temperatures than Seattle (and the rest of the NW for that matter) remember that few homes have A/C and the population isn't used to these kinds of temperatures. I am prepared for days on end of 90+ temperatures with 70% humidity. My body has somewhat acclimated and I can always retire to my A/C home with ceiling fans.

[grace0418]

20. We flew out of SeaTac on Monday, just escaped the worst of it. Although this past

weekend wasn't exactly chilly. Climate change isn't coming, it's HERE.

[freeplessinseattle]

23. This is surreal

Seattlites aren't acclimated to this heat! seriously, those that are teasing us aren't aware of the principles of acclimation, which affects animals even more, so I feel really bad for them!

It was actually nice eating my lunch by Lake Union, but being prone to migraines I can't enjoy the sun for too long, always a bummer in the summer.

[Matariki]

40. No kidding. I haven't been able to think straight all week.

then again, I'm going on a trip to Africa this year so I should be sitting outside every day this week for the practice.

[PatGund]

24. And.....

104 here in South Lake Union (40 C)

And right now my former co-workers in Doha are pointing at me and laughing......

[cascadiance]

25. Hey, you want it a bit hotter? Just drive down to Portland where its supposed to be 106 today...

And hasn't been much different the last three days!

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=97086&hourly=1&yday=209&weekday=Wednesday

Oh wait, perhaps I should drive up to Seattle to cool off! :)

Costco told me today that there were fights over who should get a crack at the shipments of air conditioners that came in this morning around 10:00 AM... I made the mistake of coming by at 11:00 AM which the web site said was the time they opened the warehouse, but 10:00 AM was when you had to get it when they opened it to exec members...

They're sold out everyplace around here...

And earlier this winter we set records for cold weather in December shortly after I moved here... Oh no, we don't have any kind of climate change. It's all a 'natural cycle'!!!

[depakid]

27. If you'd driven west a few miles on 26 to Aloha, you could have had a crack at the 110's!

Thankfully, the dewpoint's falling- down to 56 °F at 4:15, so it ought to cool off a lot more tonight.

[cascadiance]

28. That was the Costco I was at, the one in Aloha...

I live a little east of there in Beaverton. I'm cooking down in my shorts here in my bedroom with the AC blasting...

Another article on this... Could be an all time record high for Portland today too.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/portlands_alltime_record_high.html

I guess I'm thankful that I'm no longer living near fire zones any more like I was in North County of San Diego. But I can't remember dealing with being in conditions this hot and humid since I lived in Bangkok as a kid. And that was back in the 60's and we had central A/C then...

[depakid]

31. I bet it was a beauty on that asphalt lot

Funny how the microclimates work. If you check out weather underground for zip codes- and click the link called "Weather Stations," you'll see a pretty impressive variance in temperatures around the area.

[cascadiance]

32. Fortunately I was back indoors before noon...

I'm REALLY thankful that I still have a very old 10-15 year old portable air conditioning unit that I used to use in a "computer room" a while back, and has probably provided me more valuable service this last week than it has the previous years I've owned it. But it is funky having to pour out the water it generates every few hours, and its noisy as hell trying to sleep with. And the bedroom windows in this house I have don't have very good blinds to block out the sun in the mornings here close to the land of the midnight sun. So sometimes its "work" trying to get a good "morning"'s sleep too in this situation. Had hoped to get a newer one for the bedroom and move this downstairs to get the rest of the place a little cooler, but I'm at least thankful for what I have now compared to others around here.

And to think just a few weeks ago Costco had a sale on A/C's in their last coupon book. Had we only known then...

[Xipe Totec]

29. Well, thank goodness there's no global warming

otherwise, we'd really be screwn...

[regnaD kciN]

34. 107 here in Maple Valley...

I'm hunkered down at the local library, where there's air conditioning...but, so is everyone else with a laptop, and the wi-fi is so overtaxed, it's running at about one-tenth the speed of dial-up...when you can get a connection that doesn't simply time out on every site. :-(

[Libertas1776]

38. Well

you guys are lucky. I am here in New York and it must be pushing 75 in the shade. Oi its so hot. :sarcasm: Seriously, though, I feel for you guys. There is usually at least one 100+ day out here in the summer and should be comin' very soon. NOT looking forward to it.

[madrchsod]

41. we have seattle weather here in northern illinois

cool weather with tons of rain....

[lumberjack_jeff]

45. It's really hot. Like africa hot. n/t

[Politicub]

46. The heat will hurt seniors the most

since many dwellings in Seattle don't have air conditioning. There comes a point when those evaporative swamp coolers just make the room more humid.

[strategery blunder]

54. I had to cross the Cascades for one

I live with my 84-yo grandmother. Obviously I had no idea how she would take the heat. I called many, many stores here yesterday, and it quickly became evident that everything in the Seattle/Tacoma area was sold out. So it quickly became evident that I'd need to cross the mountains over to Yakima.

Since it's regularly 100 there, there was one left for me to get for her. It's a portable one, the kind with the exhaust hose, and I actually didn't pay that bad a price for it. I took her with me for obvious reasons (namely not leaving her alone in 95+ weather for 6+ hours) so she, the day before believing her "travelling days" were completely over, got in one last trip. :)

Cooling centers wouldn't necessarily work for me because I can't ALWAYS be home to take her to one, let alone loiter there for two hours.

And it'll be available should this kind of shit happen in the future, too :)

[Politicub]

65. You are a wonderful grandson or granddaughter :)

I think those portable ones are nice options for senior citizens since they don't have to be installed and can be put away.

[CrispyQ]

48. We are having lovely Seattle-y weather here in Boulder county.

This has been one of the most moderate summers I can remember in a long time! Today has been occasionally sunny with two nice rain showers earlier & another one brewing. I don't miss the heat! Or the brightness. If finances & jobs weren't an issue we would have moved to the northwest years ago!

[FVZA_Colonel]

51. There's rumors going around some town near Portland hit 114.

I'm not concerned for people like myself or my parents, but for the elderly and the homeless. Many senior centers don't have air conditioning, and other than public libraries and shelters the homeless are pretty much shit out of luck (though SPD has been handing out bottled water.)

[Historic NY]

56. Washington your wet coast ended up in New York state.

[Mz Pip]

57. It's about 60 here

Summers in the SF Bay Area aren't worth showing up for. Seems like we're the only place on the planet that isn't affected by this bizarre climate change. All day long I've worn a sweatshirt and fleece pants.

Mr Pip is on his way to a remote control airplane meet in Oregon and is not thrilled about sitting in 100 degree heat. Worse for those who are living through this.

Stay cool everyone. Send us some of your heat. We'd appreciate it.

[Cha]

58. I called my daughter in Portland, Ore..

Tuesday and she was all about HOW HOT it was..I didn't ask her the temp.

It's hot here in Middle New York, too..but not that hot!

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

59. 106 in Kent today

unbelievable.

[eridani]

61. Saw Harry Potter today. Bruno yesterday

More movie going in the last week than in the last year! Only 13% of homes in this area have air conditioning. As the old saying goes "You just might be from the Pacific Northwest if you know more people with boats than with air conditioning."

[4_TN_TITANS]

64. And here in TN

we're having rain everyday and highs in the low-mid 80's and upper 60's at night. We should be having the 100 degree heat and lower humidity. For someone like me who has lived 35 years in the same place, I can see clear changes in weather patterns.

[rhett o rick]

66. Bremerton hit 104. nm