Roller Coaster Continues
The Graphic above pretty much explains this blog entry. It's been a wacky August! Our average high temperature should be 80, we've average 76 so far this month. High temperatures have had almost a 40 degree swing. Unusual for what is supposed to be the warmest month of the year.
The cooler temperatures are confined to areas west of the Cascades. Eastside continues to sizzle. The tinder dry conditions are causing explosive fire conditions. In parts of Idaho and Washington, no fires what so ever are allowed, including cooking with charcoal briquets. The smoke from fires burning in Washington, Idaho & Montana makes for incredible sunsets.
I took these pictures last weekend in Eastern Washington, while driving home from vacation. At last report well over a million acres of forest and grass land had burned so far this summer in the Pacific Northwest.
