Remember the way global warming works.
- If it’s a record hot temperature, it’s proof of global warming.
- If it’s a record cold temperature, it’s just weather.
#convenient
SEATTLE — Heat records were broken for the second day in a row Wednesday in some western Washington locales, including in the Seattle area.
The temperature hit 95 degrees around 3:15 p.m. at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to the National
Weather Service in Seattle. The previous record there for June 12 was 85 degrees, set in 1999.
This is the first day this year the temperature at Sea-Tac has reached 90 degrees.
If it had warmed up just 2 degrees more, Wednesday would have been the hottest June day ever recorded at Sea-Tac.The weather service recorded 96 degrees there in 1955, 1995 and 2017.
Records were also set in other parts of western Washington. Olympia notched 93 degrees, beating out its previous record of 86 degrees, set in 2002. Bellingham and Hoquiam saw highs of 85 and 84, respectively, one degree higher than their previous records set around two decades ago.
Seattle area swelters under record heat wave
SEATTLE – Heat records were broken for the second day in a row Wednesday in some western Washington locales, including in the Seattle area. The temperature hit 95 degrees around 3:15 p.m. at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.