While temperatures reached record highs last week throughout the Bothell region, it wasn’t quite “historic,” as there were no strong easterly flows coming from the Cascades. Rarely, the air will descend down the slopes of the mountains and compress, resulting in a high pressure atmosphere, and higher temperatures.
Last week’s heat wave in Washington was summed up nicely by the Cliff Mass Weather Blog:
At 1 PM, parts of I5 in north Seattle got to 115 and 120F (road temps are in the rectangle), and plenty of roads were 105-115F. Also notice the contrast in the city for air temperatures: while some locations were in the mid-80s, and parts of the east-side were in the upper 80s, low to mid 70s were available near the water. That is a wonderful thing about living here: you can virtually always escape the heat by going near our cool water. Can't do that in Phoenix!
To read Cliff Mass’s full post on the road-buckling heat wave, click here.
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