The hottest month of the year in Seattle is August, with an average high of 77☏ and low of 58☏. The warm season lasts for 2.8 months, from June 21 to September 13, with an average daily high temperature above 72☏. Click on each chart for more information. That number represented an all-time record for rainfall in the region over that three-month period (known more formally as meteorological fall).ColdcoolcomfortablewarmcoolcoldJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNowNow75%75%28%28%clearovercastprecipitation: 7.7 inprecipitation: 7.7 in0.6 in0.6 inmuggy: 0%muggy: 0%0%0%drydrytourism score: 7.3tourism score: 7.30.10.1 In the town of Sumas, Washington, it’s estimated that 75% of homes suffered water damage from flooding, with many parts of the region finding themselves almost completely underwater.īy the end of the month, Sea-Tac Airport - where the NWS measures rain for the Seattle area - had officially recorded over 19 inches of rain between September and November, over half of which fell in the latter month. In mid-November, torrential rain submerged several areas across Skagit and Whatcom counties. Not long after that, temperatures plummeted to 36 degrees, which was also the first new record low in October in nearly two decades. The previous record was 43.5 degrees (high of 54 degrees and low of 33 degrees) set on Oct. The following month, Seattle experienced the coldest average temperature the city had ever seen in the first two weeks of October at 43 degrees for a single day. Over that weekend, Seattle experienced 86% of its total average September rainfall in just three days. That broke an 11-year-old record for the day. The Puget Sound region then shifted into extreme wet weather conditions, with 0.81 inches of rain falling on Sept. A second heat wave arrived in that same month, with temperatures at the time ranging into the low 90s alongside poor air quality brought on by wildfire smoke. That trend persisted into August, when the Seattle area went 51 straight days without any measurable rainfall, falling just short of the 55-day record set in 2017. In Winthrop, residents sandwiched between a pair of large fires to its eastern and western edges were experiencing the worst measured air quality on the entire planet. That also led to communities in Okanogan County experiencing the worst air quality they’ve ever seen in 15 years of available data. July was an alarming month for all of Washington, with an unprecedented drought and windy weather fueling some of the worst wildfires the state has ever seen.īy the end of July, Washington had already hit an all-time record for the number of fires for a single season, nearly doubling the 10-year average for that period of time.
July wildfires and a near-record dry streak 9, 1981Įlsewhere, Washington reached its highest ever recorded temperature in the state’s history during that period as well, topping out at 118 degrees at two National Weather Service Stations near Forks and Silver Creek.
Seattle (Sea-Tac) 108 degrees, previously 104 on June 27, 2021.That saw an historic heat wave shatter records across Western Washington, with most major areas experiencing their hottest ever days during that period.
June may have started with rainy weather, but scorching temperatures won out as the headline of the month when it was all said and done.
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