Capital Weather Gang Pacific Northwest threatened by hottest weather ever recorded; Seattle could h

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

An overpowering dome of hot air has entrenched itself over the Pacific Northwest and is primed to cook population centers like Seattle and Portland in record-crushing heat through Friday.

Excessive heat warnings blanket the western third of Northern California, Oregon and Washington state. High temperatures just inland from coastal locations are forecast to soar to between 100 and 110 degrees.

“We are talking about one of the major sustained heat waves in a long time around here,” writes Cliff Mass, professor of meteorology at the University of Washington. He said that “there is a lot of confidence” temperatures will at least reach the mid-90s in Seattle and notes the GFS model projects a high of 100 on Thursday — a reading he can’t “remember ever seeing”.

Seattle has posted only three days in the triple digits in the last 123 years. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Seattle was set July 29, 2009, when the mercury reached 103 degrees.

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File under Hoax Made in China...

[central scrutinizer]

1. Fake news - only got to 103 here in Eugene

Predicting 107

[askyagerz]

18. Yep I'm in Eugene too

I bet we hit 105 tomorrow. Plus it looks like there is a good size fire west of town

[ribrepin]

2. If the temp is not bad enough, the area is covered with smoke

from British Columbia wildfires. We have a heat pump so we have air-conditioning, but a lot of people don't because it just doesn't get that hot around here.

[Mrs. Overall]

10. No air-conditioning and this smoke is burning my throat and eyes--

It looks like a thick layer of dirty fog across the Sound and you can actually smell the forest fires in the air.

The only plus--this smoke is creating amazing sunrises and sunsets.

[KT2000]

16. the moon was red last night

heavy haze on the Olympic Peninsula. The valleys are holding the smoke too. I feel for the people in BC near those fires.
It looks like Eastern WA is really getting hit too.

[ribrepin]

22. I know - everytime I go out, my throat burns

I can deal with temperatures, but the smoke has got to go.

[trueblue2007]

14. I just took cats out for 10 minutes. SMOKE .... it is yucky.

it got to 101 degrees.

[rurallib]

3. Many people don't even have Air Conditioners up that way do they?

good luck to you all.

[bhikkhu]

5. Some do, but mostly not.

I have a window unit in one room that gets full sun, but never felt the need for a whole-house unit. Most years it hits 90 maybe a few days in summer, but the rest of the time its fine and the nights cool down pretty quickly. This year, my daughter and I both go to jobs without AC, and come home to a sweltering house...not fun, but some people have it worse.

[askyagerz]

19. Yeah not a lot of a/c's here

But 100 in NW is still better then 80 back in Illinois with all the humidity

[ProudLib72]

4. Maybe a senator needs to get some lava

and throw it on the Senate floor to make a statement about climate change?

[LeftInTX]

7. Just send Trumpy up there. Have him stay in a place w/o AC

Or better yet, send him to Texas or AZ - primitive camping

[Skittles]

6. in the meantime, high 80's in Texas

in August that is a cool front

[Wounded Bear]

13. Mariners game in Arlington, TX had a rain delay...

[jpak]

25. Wow - that is unusual

[BigmanPigman]

8. Same here in CA but not nearly as bad. I broke down and got an air conditioner two

years ago and some neighbors followed suit. We live near the ocean and it usually keeps the area cool. We've had years of unbelievable record heat. I was ill and had to have a heating pad on my back and abdomen and it was hell. It was the best investment I made that year. When I was teaching my classroom was over 90 degrees for many weeks each year and we had no air conditioning. You can't teach or learn when it is that hot. I guess this is the new "normal". I am tired of these new "normals" like a fake prez's who is a blithering idiot and embarrassment as well as dangerous.

[bora13]

9. hope it at least

burns off the clouds and dampness but i bet if it remains it must be humid as hell.
i feel for all of you as i was considering moving out that way.

[Hulk]

12. No humidity....

We are at 47 days without any precipitation; and no rain in the forecast.

This is not normal for the Pacific Northwest. Oregon has declared a state of emergency from the forest and brush fires, and the fire season is just getting underway.

[Duppers]

11. Medford OR was 115 today! Nt

[jpak]

26. Holy Shite!

That's brutal...

[L. Coyote]

15. One of our local stations nearby broke their heat record by 12 degrees today.

107 today in Salem, just plain incomprehensible for Oregon with hotter predicted tomorrow.

[suffragette]

29. I notice the forecast keeps being updated to have more hot days. Not as hot as yesterday, today

And Friday, but much hotter than usual with warmer nights than normal, too

They had been saying cool down begins Friday night, but now that looks like just the coast. One weather reporter mumbled last night that we might be in for one to two weeks of heat.

I want my rain and cool western breeze back, damn it.

[L. Coyote]

32. We cooled down with an oceanbreeze yesterday afternoon. Today 75 predicted.

Salem has a week of high 90s predicted. Tomato weather.

[suffragette]

33. That would be lovely. Very hot with added layer of wildfire smoke here in Seattle.

Latest forecast has next week being just as bad, though the smoke might lessen after weekend.

That's a long stretch, especially without AC.

Will also be breaking the record for days without rain.

Yeah, I'm a bit grumpy.

[tclambert]

17. It only hit 85 degrees in Mumbai.

Oregon is warmer than India? That seems so wrong.

But the high was 113 degrees in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and 121 in Baghdad. How do people live in such places?

[czarjak]

20. Chinese hoax...

[earthshine]

21. In Western NC, there hasn't been one day over 90.

One day hit 89 for a few minutes. Most days this summer are upper 70s to low 80s.

It is the coldest summer, by far, I have ever experienced in Asheville.

I'm used to numerous 90+ days in a typical summer.

NC is getting the Arctic air. We really need that cold air to stay up there.

It seems that the hotter it gets on the west coast, the more it drives hot air into the Arctic, which drives more cold air down the jetstream toward the middle US.

But, don't think for a moment we are having a good summer or pleasant weather. There a very few sunny days, and the rain, which happens most days, stinks from chemicals.

I remember at time, just a few short years ago, when rain smelled good. After the rain, the skies would be so clear. Now, the skies are never clear. Never really blue. There's an everpresent white haze.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. It's the persistent ridge in the west and trough in the east

And then what has recently started happening is that in winter (at least last winter), there was a persistent trough in the west and ridge here in the east (with a mild winter).

This year's eastern trough has been pretty strong given that you guys down there have actually gotten in on the Canadian high air. But then at least the pattern finally put a major major dent in the long-term western drought (notably California).

The one downside to the climate changes is that you guys in W. NC have been getting more ice storms vs just rain or snow.

[wishstar]

30. Yesterday-warm,beautiful blue sky,no rain-but look out- 60% rain chance, highs 78 for next 2 weeks

starting Monday, plan on foggy views and forget about going camping or hiking up in mountains without rain gear for the rest of August. Such a contrast to the persistent 90's and dry summers in past couple of years:

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/28805:4:US

[earthshine]

31. What beautiful blue sky?

Is "beautiful" sky what you see, or what the weather channel tells you?

The sky is a hazy whitish blue between white clouds on the best of days. Most days, cumulus clouds barely stand out from the background. There's no deep blue, like there was a few years ago.

When I moved to Asheville nine years ago from Long Island, NY, I was quite impressed with the astronomy-level clarity of the sky. I haven't done star gazing in about five years, because, now, there are no dim stars that can be seen.

My wife and I recently binge watched "Breaking Bad," which was filmed in New Mexico from 2008-2013. There are plenty of outdoor scenes. Over the five seasons, the sky goes from bad to worse right before the viewer's eyes.

It's so evident that our planet is turning into Venus.

[0rganism]

24. we usually get a hot week here at the end of July/beg. of August, but this is gd ridiculous

the smoke from the wildfires is not helping either

[maxsolomon]

27. My phone says it's only 90, and that it's going to get cooler today

So Quitchurbitchin!

The Smoke is actually keeping the temp down.

[pfitz59]

28. 100 or so in Seattle today

smokey as well. no AC. sweating bullets. not much relief at night.

[RussBLib]

34. some record heat in Europe too

"Lucifer" heat wave holds Italy, eastern Europe in fiery grip

SARAJEVO/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Swathes of southern and eastern Europe sweltered in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) on Friday in a heat wave nicknamed "Lucifer" that has fanned forest fires, triggered weather warning alerts and damaged crops.

Italy and the Balkans were worst affected, though areas as far north as southern Poland also basked in abnormally hot temperatures, and European weather hub Meteoalarm issued its highest grade "red" warnings for 10 countries.

At least two people have died from the heat - one in Romania and one in Poland - and many more have been taken to hospital suffering from sunstroke and other heat-related conditions.

In Albania, 300 firefighters and soldiers struggled to contain as many as 75 forest fires and the country asked the European Union for emergency help. Firefighters were also busy in Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Croatia.

With temperatures expected to stay around 40 degrees Celsius into next week, authorities advised people to increase their water intake and Red Cross volunteers across Europe visited the homeless and elderly and other people at risk.

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[Yavin4]

35. Let's burn more coal!

That'll solve the problem.