Transcriber Weather

[pommystuart]

Just got up at 0710 and it's -1.4c (app temp -3.6c). It went minus at 0400 with -0.3c and expecting 19c mid afternoon.
Coldest ever was -3.4c July 2018

Lat: -33.09 Long: 151.46 Height: 6.0 m

[Michael]

Wow! And to think we got up to 29.1C and still no rain.

[Randi]

It was unpleasantly warm, but we had a thunderstorm and now it is much nicer

[ggordon]

Seattle is back in a hot stretch again. The forecast highs for Kent are 36 today and 37 tomorrow, although at my house it usually gets a bit warmer than the forecasts. After that, a slow cooling down to 24 with possible rain on Monday.

[Randi]

We have a heat advisory today.
The weather site currently says 89 and mostly sunny.
Tonight it is supposed to rain and get cooler.

[ggordon]

Now on top of the heat, smoke from the wildfires has arrived. The forecast is for unhealthy air today and tomorrow. It's currently rated moderate, but I am already noticing a little difficulty breathing. Time to break out the N-100 masks and attach filters to the fans. We are still fortunate to be far better off than much of western North America.

[Randi]

Today was hot!
Now we're having a thunderstorm, which is not great, but it has cooled things off nicely.

[studentforever]

I don't know if you will be envious or sympathetic but high here is 18 and showery. The next few days are dryer but 17/18 and the occasional night into single figures.

[Randi]

Envious

[Randi]

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE • SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021 • WWW.POST-GAZETTE.COM

NOAA: July was hottest month on record
Pittsburgh weather set no new highs
Post-Gazette news services
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The Pittsburgh area didn’t go along with the trend.

Although the globe was bringing in the heat last month, Pittsburgh was fairly consistent with previous years’ averages. The average temperature here was 72.5 degrees, about 0.6 degrees lower than usual, but 10 degrees above the global average.

According to Max Gawryla, a meteorologist with AccuWeather, based in State College, the trends “absolutely” coincide with Pittsburgh’s love for rain.

“It looks like the average normal rainfall that Pittsburgh gets in July is around 3 inches. This past July we saw just over 4.25. When you get those rainier patterns, they end up typically coming with lower pressure in the atmosphere, cloudier skies — all of these things sort of contribute to cooler temperatures than you’d otherwise see,” he said.

Pittsburgh’s July saw no record-breaking high temperature days, nor any days sneaking into the 90s. Mr. Gawryla said we came close but couldn’t quite crack that level.
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[Randi]

Not transcriber weather, but...
Rainfall Observed at Peak of Greenland Ice Sheet for First Time on Record

[Michael]

[Randi]

Hot.

[Michael]

The reason for living in Victoria...

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The extended forecast summary for Victoria.
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Date              | Night         | Morning      | Afternoon    | Evening       | Max | Min | Prcp | Wind
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Wednesday 25 Aug. |               | Mainly Sunny | Mainly Sunny | Cloudy        |  22 |  14 |    0 |   25
Thursday 26 Aug.  | Cloudy        | Light rain   | Showers      | Fair          |  17 |  13 |    2 |   22
Friday 27 Aug.    | Partly cloudy | Mainly Sunny | Mainly Sunny | Clear         |  19 |  14 |    0 |   18
Saturday 28 Aug.  | Clear         | Mainly Sunny | Mainly Sunny | Partly cloudy |  19 |  13 |    0 |   14
Sunday 29 Aug.    | Clear         | Sunny        | Mainly Sunny | Partly cloudy |  21 |  14 |    0 |    7
Monday 30 Aug.    | Partly cloudy | Mainly Sunny | Mainly Sunny | Clear         |  18 |  12 |    0 |   25
Tuesday 31 Aug.   | Fair          | Mainly Sunny | Mainly Sunny | Fair          |  17 |  12 |    0 |   22
Wednesday 1 Sep.  | Clear         | Mainly Sunny | Mainly Sunny | Fair          |  18 |  12 |    0 |   18
Thursday 2 Sep.   | Fair          | Mainly Sunny | Mainly Sunny | Fair          |  19 |  13 |    0 |   11
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Extremes          |               |              |              |               |  22 |  12 |    3 |   25
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The total precipitation shown is 3 mm, whereas the daily amounts show only 2 mm. That's because there are four days with amounts of 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 and 0.3 mm. I show amounts only to the nearest mm, which is why there is a discrepancy.

[Randi]

Finally... a thunderstorm and cooler!
We have been very lucky here.

[Michael]

The data for August at my house in Victoria.

The highest temperature occurred on August 12 with 34.0 degrees.
The lowest temperature occurred on August 24 with 8.5 degrees.
The average temperature for the month was 18.4, the normal is 17.6.
The total precipitation for the month was 4.9 mm, the normal amount is 15.8 mm.
There were 3 days with precipitation, the normal is 5.
The most precipitation occurred on August 07 with 3.6 mm.
The highest wind speed occurred on August 07 with 25 kmh.
The windiest day was August 22.
The amount of solar power generated was 933.5 kwh.
The most solar power was 37.9 kwh generated on August 08.
The least solar power was 11.1 kwh generated on August 16.
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Previous records based on data from the U Vic weather station 1993 - 2020.
The record high temperature occurred on August 15 2010 with 34.5 degrees.
The record low temperature occurred on August 31 2008 with 7.2 degrees.
The warmest August occurred in 1997 with a mean temperature of 18.8 degrees.
The coldest August occurred in 1995 with a mean temperature of 16.4 degrees.
August 1998 had the least precipitation with 0.0 mm.
August 2013 had the most precipitation with 62.0 mm.
August 1998 had the fewest days of precipitation with 0.
August 1995 had the most days of precipitation with 12.

[Michael]

We had 37.8 mm of rain in the past 24 hours. However, three places on B.C.'s Lower Mainland made it into the top five places for precipitation during the last 24 hours in the world!

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Maximum Precipitation                                        |      Value |
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 1. Port Mellon, Bc (Canada)                                 |   227.7 mm |
 2. Ofunato (Japan)                                          |   189.0 mm |
 3. Squamish Airport, B. C (Canada)                          |   184.0 mm |
 4. Kushiro (Japan)                                          |   181.0 mm |
 5. W Vancouver Automatic Weather Reporting System  (Canada) |   170.7 mm |
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[Randi]

Wow!

[ggordon]

The weather was interesting here in Kent yesterday; not nearly as much rain as up in Vancouver, but it got very windy. The lights just flickered here, but there are still widespread power outages.

The temperature climbed as the front approached. At Noon the temperature was 14.6 C then it started going up. By the time the front came through at 10:19 PM the temperature had climbed to 21.4 C, then rapidly dropped to 16.0 C after the front passed.

There were strong winds and heavy rain (at least heavy for the Seattle area) as the front passed. 8.38 MM yesterday and 12.70 mm so far today.

The above data is from my personal weather station here in Kent, not the official data for Seattle.

[pommystuart]

Something to look forward to Downunder.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/features/yes ... -it-worse/

(from - https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans ... e-change/? )