We cancelled our outdoor pickleball game at Perrigo Park on Friday. Tuesday we'll be safely tucked away at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse. The ash continues to fall on our windshield. 10/15/2022
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A high ridge of pressure and offshore flow will bring a highly unusual round of mid-October heat and more wildfire smoke to Western Washington over the weekend. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) |
PATCH, Lucas Combos, Reporter
The latest forecasts show a good chance that this weekend will be another one for the record books. If temperatures in Seattle reach their projected high Sunday, the Emerald City will break through 80 degrees later in the year than ever before and hit the threshold twice in October for the first time. Saturday will get close, too, and more daily records look likely to fall.
Seattle already broke its October record for most 75-degree days, logging its sixth Thursday, more than any other year since records began in the 1890s. According to the National Weather Service, the last 100 days have seen 77 with above-normal temperatures, including 25 straight through Wednesday. With just 0.4 inches of rain since July 5, it has also been the second-driest 100-day stretch ever recorded in Seattle.
-- PATCH article by Lucas Combos 10/14/2022, excerpted by Bob Yoder 10/15/2022
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