Summer 2015 Hottest On Record For Seattle; Average High 80F; Historic Avg. High 73F
This might be the ultimate statistic to show just how hot a summer it's been in Seattle this year: In typical summers, Seattle gets a handful of 80 degree days a year (25 to be exact -- OK, so they're big hands). This summer? It was the average high temperature.
In about as big a surprise as Kanye West doing something zany at the MTV Video Music Awards, Seattle has officially notched its hottest summer on record. (Yes, technically there are still three weeks in summer by our calendar, what with that whole autumnal equinox and all, but "meteorological summer" runs June 1-Aug. 31. Meteorological fall is Sept. 1-Nov. 30; winter is Dec. 1-Feb. 28, spring is March 1-May 31). And by all measures, it wasn't even close.
It is indeed the first summer ever here that averaged a high temperature over 80 degrees, checking in at 80.2. (The fact that 47 of the 92 days this summer were above 80 might have had something to do with it*.) Second place on the hottest average high temperature? WAY down the chart at 77.6 degrees, set both in 1961 and 1958.
Our average summer high is 73.4. Beating a statistic averaged over three months by over 2 1/2 degrees is like winning the Super Bowl over the AFC champion by 36 points (wink).
EDIT
http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/Its-officially-Seattles-hottest-summer-on-record-averaging-80-degrees--323557951.html
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When you are used to walking around with just a long sleeved shirt, maybe a sleeveless best, and jeans in 60 degree weather, perfectly comfortable, anything over 75 feels hot, and over 80, uncomfortable.
Been there, done that.
but now, must laff at myself, now that I am down here in the humid hot Southern summer, because last night I felt "airish"..( a bit chilly) when the house temp dipped to ...73.