The last several days in The Dalles, I’ve noticed the feeling that we’ve moved past the “peak” of our summer season. We’ve had a few nights with low temps in the 50s now. That always seems to start at some point in either the middle or late part of August. The heat hasn’t been too bad for the past week, but that may only have been because of thick smoke. Temps last week were slated to touch the low 100s…
(sorry, I don’t have a good fresh photo of the red smoky sun!) As you can probably tell, it’s been a very tough summer for much of the Western U.S., and even parts of Canada. So far there have been five big wildfires within local range of The Dalles, burning well over 100,000 acres. Multiple conflagrations of historic magnitude, have blazed throughout Northern California. Now we are seeing haze from fires in British Columbia and Alberta, brought into Washington &…
Well…here we are again folks, in the middle of heatwave #3. Weather models the past couple weeks have really struggled with the long-range forecast. Back during our lengthy late July inferno, there was a strong signal that we would have a mild-to-cool pattern for the first 7-10 days of August. But instead, yesterday Tuesday it was 106 degrees F outside in The Dalles! There’s also a lot of haze outside from wildfires in California and southern Oregon. Most of it…
Good morning! I imagine many of us in the Pacific Northwest are feeling refreshed and relieved today; the big heat wave that dominated all of late July is finally over! Yesterday August 1, the last of the hot air was on its way out of The Dalles; we had one final “hot” day with a high temp of 97. Put it all together, and since July 22 we have had: 11 consecutive days with max temps at/above 95F; 10 of…