Forecast Updates

Did you notice the clouds building and the breezes pick up this afternoon and evening? That's usually a warning sign of a change in weather...though it isn't as bad as you might think! (At least for summer lovers - guess it is bad news if you miss the cold and wet...)

A very weak system is scooting to our north overnight tonight (Tuesday) into tomorrow (Wednesday)...the main impacts will be clouds and cooler temps tomorrow, only in the low-70s. Might be a bit drizzly tomorrow morning, but not really expecting much more precip. Once we're past that, we'll be back to our normal "morning clouds, afternoon sun" thru the end of the week - temps hovering in the mid- to upper-70s, meaning it should be pretty pleasant!

Also - it's about the time of year when we start paying attention to potential impacts from wildfires. As of right now, it doesn't look like any fires within a few hundred miles of us are producing enough smoke to affect more than their immediate areas! But of course, the computer forecasts are only considering the locations of current fires - so that's subject to change if/when new fires start. Additionally, the winds several thousand feet up in the atmosphere will be coming from west to east, giving us fresh air from the Pacific Ocean - or what we call "onshore winds". (That's also what gives us "nature's air conditioning" in the summer!)

Happy Fourth Weekend! Since summer already didn’t wait til the fifth to start this year, it only makes sense that the Fourth itself is pretty decent weather-wise! Like today (Friday), we’ll have... view more →

A cool, cloudy - dare I say “gloomy” - end to June…I remembered that five years ago yesterday was the end of that massive heatwave…I’ll take cloudy and 60s over muggy and over 100° any day! We’ll... view more →

For the first time in over two weeks, it actually rained! (I’m not counting that sneaky little popup shower that raced thru yesterday morning…I think I counted about a dozen raindrops - the... view more →

Wednesday night update: as I’m writing this, less than one hour left in our Heat Advisory! Today got a bit toasty too - I’m seeing readings in the upper-80s, with a couple 90° afternoon highs... view more →

Tuesday late-afternoon update: We're halfway thru this Heat Advisory - 30 hours down, 30 hours to go until it expires at 11pm tomorrow night! The high clouds seemed to have kept a few degrees off... view more →

Happy First Day of Summer! It’s gonna feel like it the next few days, including a Heat Advisory… but “Juneuary” has one more appearance to make this year… First off: for the second week in a row,... view more →

Another nice weekend, before another hot start to the workweek - in fact, the National Weather Service just issued a(nother) Heat Advisory for Monday thru Wednesday. Let's talk about the weekend... view more →

Even with the high clouds around today, it was a hot day…several weather stations around the Plateau reached the 90° mark - and several low-90s around the Eastside! Sea-Tac set a daily record of... view more →

Monday morning update: Heat Advisory is still in effect until 5am tomorrow. Yesterday afternoon topped out in the upper-80s - as of 8:30am this morning, we're already five degrees warmer than we... view more →