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Looking at the last 50 years of data and it's pretty clear Seattle is warming up: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Decades/USA/WA/Seattle/temperature-aver
by bentcorner 5y ago
Looking at the last 50 years of data and it's pretty clear Seattle is warming up: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Decades/USA/WA/Seattle/temperature-average-by-decade-seattle.php https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Decades/USA/WA/Seattl...
Whether this is due to climate change, urban development or something else entirely could certainly be explained in more depth, but the trend is there.
- BB212 5y agoThat link is better than the headline because it is averaging hundreds of days for each data point. A four day heat wave is not very compelling data on its own.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoGoing back further, you can find 100 degrees in mid July of 1941: https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/WA/Seattle/extreme-annual-seattle-high-temperature.php https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/WA/Seattle... Though, that was before Sea-Tac was the official weather station: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/heres-why-seattles-weather-records-are-taken-at-seatac-airport/281-d587a9bd-a4b6-4915-8856-12b8b2e2618f https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/heres-why-s...