There is a reason many folks like coastal living. There’s fresh air, sounds of the crashing surf and cool temperatures. Most residents of the coast did not like Friday’s weather. It was 95 degrees on the northern tip of Long Beach Peninsula at Ocean Park, 100 degrees at Long Beach and 98 degrees across the Columbia in Astoria, Ore. Let’s not forget Seaside, Ore., at 100 degrees. So many high-temperature records have been broken around the Pacific Northwest.
With temperatures that hot right down to the water’s edge, there is no relief other than cold-water ankle wading. Flocks of valley residents made their way westward to the beaches over the weekend to escape the heat. Saturday’s weather at the beach featured temperatures some 30 to 40 degrees cooler than on Friday.
Inland residents had another scorcher before the cool-down today. The intense thermal low moved east of the Cascades late Saturday, allowing the cooler ocean air to filter inland.
Vancouver set another record high Saturday. As of 5 p.m., it was 98 degrees, surpassing the record of 96 degrees in 1951. Friday’s high of 99 degrees broke the Aug. 19 record high of 98 degrees in 2009. Remember Aug. 19 last year? The high was 97 degrees.
