WeatherWatcher: One cold day in exchange for more sun

• Forecast
• Last week's highlights
• July in review
• Last week's daily high temperatures
• Last week's data

Forecast Monday - Sunday: weather looks to be very much the same. Some morning clouds breaking to afternoon sun with highs ranging from the mid 70's to the low 80's. Most people dream of summer weather like this.

Last week's highlights: Wednesday afternoon as we had a low pressure system approach the state it triggered a fairly large thunderstorm over the west Cascades foot hills. As the storm grew and moved north it drifted a little bit over Puget Sound giving everyone from Seattle to Everett a sideswipe hit of the storm with a little rainfall. Although the gauge was not tipped at my weather station, places north and east got a bit more rainfall out of the storm. Friday we had what most people are calling our first measurable rainfall in over 30 days, however since the Shoreline station picked up some rain on July 17th, I'm going to say we were not as dry as Sea-Tac. We received 0.17 inches of rain on Friday, not quite a quarter inch, but enough to water everything. Friday was also more like a fall day, with a high temperature of 59°F.

July in review:  This year July was dry, sunny but very average in temperature. As far as July weather goes around this area I would have to say it wasn't very abnormal at all, with the slight exception of the slightly warmer than normal start near the beginning of the month. You can see in the graphs below that we had measurable rainfall July 17th. We had a warm spike at the beginning of July and a smaller warm spike around the 15th, but otherwise ran very typical for this time of year temperature wise. Also the third graph is the average daily barometer readings, very stable this time of year.

Daily Average Temperature 2013 compared to station normal for July.

Daily high temperatures:

Saturday: 80.7°F

Sunday: 74.5°F

Monday: 77.9°F

Tuesday: 79.7°F

Wednesday: 70.2°F

Thursday: 67.5°F

Friday: 59.4°F

Last week's data:

High temperature: 80.7°F (Saturday)

Low temperature: 51.6°F (Saturday)

Rainiest day: 0.17 inches (Friday)

Total rainfall: 0.17 inches

Warmest day: 64.4°F (Saturday)

Coldest day: 58.6°F (Friday)

Average temperature: 61.9°F (Station average for this week is 64.2°F) 2.3°F colder than normal.

Warmest and coldest days are based on average temperature of the entire day, starting at midnight. All other averages are based on the whole week, starting Saturday morning at midnight. All weather data unless otherwise noted is sourced from Carl's weather station located in the Echo Lake neighborhood of Shoreline, Washington. For up to the minute weather conditions and historic data, as well as links to weather information and resources, check out my page .

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