8:59 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink
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Maybe I should have titled this blog entry as NO VACANCY. With forecasted temperatures 30 degrees cooler on the coast many families are packing up the car and headed for the beach. Before you read on - Stop! We've been getting reports from hotels, motels and campgrounds that the NO VACANCY Lamp is lit. When you call to ask if anything is available the answer is "sorry we're booked full." If you don't already have a room reserved you might have a very tough time finding one.
You have to go back to the summer of 1981 to find a stretch like this. A "threepeat." 3 days in a row of temperatures at over above 100 degrees! Thursday it was 102 at PDX. Here at KGW we topped out at 101. Today is going to be even hotter. I'm looking at 103 to 105 degrees by the end of the day. The current record for the date is 98 set in 1967.
Few days have ever been as warm as today will be. The all time record high for Portland is 107 degrees. We reached that on August 8th and again on the 10th back in 1981. Tomorrow won't be much better another scorcher with highs likely above 100 degrees and very close to the record.
Records are falling at both ends of the day. The current record low maximum for August 15th is 63 degrees. This morning the lowest temperature I've seen at PDX was 68.
I don't see much relief from the heat until early next week. Saturday will again be a triple digit day. Sunday we begin to get some cooler air with highs only in the 90s. (yippee! please note sarcasm)
Temperatures will finally get back to near normal by Monday of next week. Keep your fingers crossed we may even see some rain. Yes that's right real Oregon liquid sunshine next Wednesday! Talk about one extreme to the other.
Dave
When I started watering the garden this morning it was a balmy 75 but by the time I got done about an hour later it was 93. Don't even want to look at the grass!!
Ridiculous? Three days of heat is not ridiculous. What is ridiculous is months and months of cold rain and clouds. That's ridiculous.
I remember that ridiculously hot August of 1981. My son was only 3 months old and we had no air conditioner. I've been thinking for years that it was just my imagination that it was that hot, but you've confirmed it - Thanks!
100, 103? That's nothing, right now we have humidity with our storms here in Phoenix, AZ. The hottest part of the year can be 100 at night and about 15 degree +/- during the day at the PHX airport.
I awoke last night to the loudest clap of thunder I've ever heard. I sat up in bed, my heart was pounding and my adrenaline was rushing. 2:35am and for an instant I thought something was seriously wrong. When I realized it was actually one heck of a lightening storm, I got up and watched it for about 40 minutes. It was the most fantastic "show" I've ever seen. Incredible lightening and thunder. It was right over my head, the hair on my neck stood up everything was so electrified. Even my cats were acting crazy!
Susannah