Colder than Siberia!

[kevyn]

Remember on Monday, when I posted that it was really cold and wet and dark outside? Well the unseasonably cold spell for the Pacific Northwest has continued unabated. In fact, it's been the coldest June on record, here.

Today, the Seattle Times ran this headline, front page, above the fold:
Seattle weather: Colder than Siberia!

I just checked the National Weather Service to verify this, and yep, we're colder than Siberia right now (though not by much). At 1 PM today, Bellingham was +10 C (50 F). In Barnaul, Siberia, it was +12 C (53 F).

Wow. Colder than Siberia! I knew it was cold, but geez!

I suppose I shouldn't complain, though... I hear it's miserably hot back east and down south.

Comments

[phreddd.livejournal.com]

2 weeks before we fly out there, and your account of the weather has me scared now...

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Why scared? It's in the 50s, will probably be in the high 60s by the time you get here, a nice break from the heat in Wisconsin...

[phreddd.livejournal.com]

Darlin', it hasn't been all that warm except for a few days... what it has been is W-E-T (Lake Delton, where the dam-busting, houses-washing-away footage that's given the Weather Channel staff multiple orgasms since Monday, is less than 70 miles up the highway from us.)!! And I'm bone tired of that.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I read about that in the paper.

Well, you didn't expect to come to the PNW to get dry did you?

[gmjambear]

I asked one LJ user from Buffalo, with little success, to send some of the heat to the Pacific Northwest.

*damn*

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Coldest June on record.

Climate change, anyone?

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

We're having a heat wave in SF right now - which I love but freaks out everyone else. Downtown San Francisco is not built for 80+ degrees. There is also serious rain and flooding in the Midwest.

Oddly, I remember this exact same weather pattern from the summer of '93. A high pressure heat wave parked over the east coast and all the rain and storms that would have normally blown that way dumped over the midlands and created all sorts of havock.

Looks like the wheel has turned again.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Same pattern in '93, you say. Interesting... *scratching beard thoughtfully*

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

Yup. I don't remember what the west coast weather was like at that time. I was living across the street from a river, so the flooding had my full attention. Would probably be worth looking up, though.