Record Highs and All-time Record Highs!
Wow... you know it's hot when the Coast reaches 100° like Tillamook did on Tuesday. Below is a list of records set Tuesday.
Even more impressive than Tillamook's 100° is the 99° reached farther up the Coast at Hoquiam, WA, where a new all-time record high was set. Hoquiam's 99° on Tuesday beats out the previous all-time record high of 98°, set on Augst 9, 1981.
What's interesting about that heat wave is it's the same one that lifted Portland to its all-time record high of 107°. And not just once, but twice: on August 8 and August 10, 1981. Portland also hit it's all-time record of 107° back on July 30, 1965.
But relief is on the way. In fact it's already reached the central Coast in the form of fog, which created this water-color like smear of a scene in Pacific City Tuesday night.
It'll take another day for the cooler coastal air to work into the Portland area. In the process, be on the lookout for thunderstorms, escpecially Thursday night into Friday morning. And by then, this heat wave will be history.
Matt Zaffino
Chief Meteorologist
Northwest Newschannel 8
