Seattle = Overated in the utmost truest sense of the word.

It's really less about global warming, and more about climate chage

seattle blows puppy chow!

Ignorance is bliss I suppose.

Seattle annual temperature average: 52.8 degrees
Los Angeles annual temperature average: 63 degrees
Phoenix annual temperature average: 72.6 degrees.

So for those who live up here and are acclimated to those averages a 90 degree day in Seattle is a heat wave, analogous to a 100 degree day in LA or a 110 degree day in Phoenix. I was born and raised just outside of Sacramento California. I remember those 100+ degree days that go on for 4 to 6 weeks every summer. Worked a lumber yard in those temperatures for years - always used to laugh at others who raised similar alarms about their "hot" 90 degree days - and in my ignorance those news stories made me laugh too.

Been up here in Seattle for almost 10 years now and a 90 degree day here definitely reminds me of those long hot 100+ degree summer days in the Sac valley.

Right now it's 60 degrees and (of course) raining. A long-sleeve day (mine got rolled up tho - too warm) An umbrella maybe but a jacket for this would be overkill.

I s'pose you would be bundled up in a muffler and furs?

Both days in Seattle were record temperatures for this time of year. Thursday was the highest temp for this time of year since official records began. It hit the mid 90's in Skagit but there are no official records for Skagit.

"Friday's high of 89 degrees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport broke a 33-year-old record. Thursday's high - also 89 degrees - broke a 58-year-old record. Official temperature records date to the mid-1940s"

If you just want to bitch about Seattle, how about the $1bn of public money we have spend on sports stadiums in the past decade?

It's in the high 80s in Austin, to go into the 90s this coming week.....

Hey, please be careful when you bash Seattle in particular and Washington in general. It is a wonderful place. The only problem is all those darned Californicators who have migrated north and warped the political landscape. And as to bashing the French, please go right ahead. I remember when my wheeler-dealer cousin was negotiating a big deal with the head of a French conglomerate. He was hosting the fellow in his own home on the St. Croix River. My cousin's young son almost ruined the deal by coming up to the Frenchman and saying that he knew how to speak French. Filled with admiration for such a discerning young man, the Frenchie asked the boy to say something in French. He did. "Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit..."

I remember more than one occasion over the years where it actually hit 100 in Seattle. Mid 90s is hot, but not unheard of. Drudge apparently didn't read that article very well himself---his headline was very misleading.

So it is the first-ever heat advisory because Seattle couldn't have received one before!

Congratulations on your reading comprehension Paul.

I live in Western Washington and 87 is a heatwave here. Yup, that's whiney. But I've lived all over the country so it doesn't bother me. I KNOW they are trying to play up the global warming crap.

Once it was a beautiful warm (80's) day in April and I was washing my car. Someone walked by and I said "Beautiful day." She gave me a dark look and said, "yes, but this global warming is worrying." I just looked at her and said "Oh Shut UP!"

Marko:

So, everyone that sneered at the EUroweenies for letting their old folks die during the heatwave last year need to suck it up and not gripe about perceived nannyism when warnings like the one mentioned above saves lives. It's called a public service announcement.

Well, the big difference being that your grandma didn't die, because your parents cared enough to check. The Franch had been warned...they just couldn't take time off from their 30 day holiday to verify whether their parents were handling the heat ok.

Yeah. My disdain of frogystan is safely intact.

Consider this . . .

My mom called my grandmother (both live in Newberg, just outside of Portland) to see if she wanted dad to bring over some food on Friday. Grandma was totally out of it. When dad went to her trailer the temperature was 92 deg inside and she was nearly dead. It just snuck up on her - she hates TV and doesn't get the newspaper, had no idea it was going to get that hot BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE FREAKING DESERT SW. If they had not bothered to take food over, I truly believe she would be dead.

So, everyone that sneered at the EUroweenies for letting their old folks die during the heatwave last year need to suck it up and not gripe about perceived nannyism when warnings like the one mentioned above saves lives. It's called a public service announcement.

Oh, and by the way, not everyone in this wide world of ours is a sneering young hipster blogger.

They've declared a drought up here every single summer for as long as I can remember, seriously.

>> indicates a higher possibility that people will get sick or die <<

There is a 100% chance that people will get sick or die.

This is "make sure we look like we're doing something so we keep our funding."

From the WAPO web page

"Seattle is among the cities added this year to the weather service's excessive heat program. A heat advisory means conditions could lead to heat stress in some people and a warning indicates a higher possibility that people will get sick or die."

So it is the first-ever heat advisory because Seattle couldn't have received one before! The implication in the article is that it has never been this hot in Seattle before (at least during recorded history). I don't live in Seattle, but I'm guessing this is not the first time it was this warm there.

I actually picked this up off... DUmmyland, which may have been before or after Drudge linked it.

I could care less about this story, I just wanted a chance to bash Seattle/Washington.

Why does this get your panties in a wad? You are taking issue with the fact Seattle has had a run of dry winters and warm weather?

The point of the advisory is clearly stated in the AP article:

"Danny Mercer, a forecaster in the National Weather Service's Seattle office, said the idea is to warn the elderly, the young, the ill and those with heart conditions of the potential dangers of activity in the heat in a region that doesn't see much of it."

And you have a problem with that?

I'm sure if LA or Arizona broke a record for cold winter temps, AP would run a story about it as well. And this was only headlines on Drudge, not in any Seattle papers I saw. Maybe it was a slow news day for him.

The doomsayers might want to consider this information, cribbed from the blog site of Jim Miller: http://www.seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/

"Climatologist George H. Taylor has some for the Pacific Northwest. He has some nice graphs showing the effects of "urban heat islands", and makes this significant point:

The warmest decade in the last century in Oregon, according to rural station records, was the 1930s. The last several decades have indeed seen a warming, but current temperatures remain below those reported 70 years ago. What's more, one must use temperature data with great caution in order to avoid contamination caused by land use changes, including the urban heat island effect."

I think this an attempt by the media to create more anxiety regarding their baby... global warming. Every year it gets into the 90s here in the Pacific NW. It's not unusal at all. I also saw that headline on Drudge and scratched my head. I live in Portland, and yes, it was hot yesterday (we had 95 degress), but nothing worth creating a headline over.

Odd, very odd.