Pathetic Summer?
I've been hearing some complaints about the "pathetic" summer we're having. Imgaine that, a weatherman hearing complaints! I thought to myself -"Pathetic !Pathetic?" Has summer really been that bad? The comments sent me digging into the climate records for Portland and Vancouver. Here's what I found out, about our summer so far. It's actually a pretty typical summer. About the only thing missing has been an extended period of extremely hot temperatures.
Since May we've only seen 4 days with high temperatures over 90 degrees. We average 11 per year. In 2006 we had 13 days of 90 plus. Two of the last three months have seen daytime highs running above average. June was just slightly cooler than normal. Dry weather continues... May, June & July all averaged below normal rainfall. As a matter of fact the last 7 months have seen below normal precipitation.
