Seattle
weather log:
October
2003: Rains 5 inches in one day, setting the all-time single day record
at Seatac.
November
2003: Very cold for the first week, low 30s for highs. It was sunny
every day at Cascadia, but the cold was biting.
Jan. 6,
2004: Snow day, very cold. Low 20. Didn't go to work.
Winter
04-05: Relatively warm and sunny. First got into meteorology,
bought my own weather station.
May
2005: Unusual amount of thunderstorms. During one of them, I could
hear hail approaching from a mile away- probably the biggest and most
terrifying hail I have seen.
November
2005: First week presented my first "storm train" as a weather
tracker.
January
2006: 27 straight days of measured rainfall breaks the old record.
July 22,
2006: Felt like the most humid day in Seattle history. 95 degrees,
no sun. I was laying in my bed not moving, and still ended up sweating.
July 23,
2006: 10 straight days of 90+ degree heat, a Seattle record.
November
2006: Rainfall record of 22 inches in one month set at Seatac.
Late
November 2006: Arctic blast cripples an evening commute. I was
stuck in traffic for 3 hours. Asked Albertson's in Woodinville if I could
spend the night. They said no. Took a detour south, where an
ambulance was stalled with someone on life support. Made it home
safe.
December 14-15, 2006: Major windstorm knocks out power for 8 days. The entire eastside is a blackout. One intersection was blown to smithereens. I work for 80 hours at McDonald's in one week, where we easily set sales records.
These were some dense years in the history of Seattle weather. It's great how they coincided with my peak interest in the weather.
*After
this there wasn't a major weather event until the snowfall of December
2008. In summer 2009, Seattle broke the single day record for temperature
at 103. By then I'd abandoned the study of meteorology. It's possible
that if 2007 had been more "exciting", I'd have stayed in the
field. Alas, that was a truly uneventful year.* (2019)
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