Weather Eye: Vancouver should see its highest-ever temperatures today
By Patrick Timm
Published: June 27, 2021, 6:04am
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Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at ptimmwriter@gmail.com.
We entered this excessive heat wave as forecasted by the computer models several days ago. I haven’t seen so many models all being so agreeable. We have never experienced such high temperatures here, and the records go back to the late 1800s.
As I write this column Saturday afternoon, Vancouver had reached 107 degrees as of 5 p.m., making it our warmest June day ever.
Our all-time record high is 108 degrees in July 2009. I believe we will easily surpass that early this afternoon.
We could see 113 to 115 degrees today. Please be careful.
The excessive heat warning was extended clear to the ocean beaches today for temperatures between 90 and 100 degrees, thanks to those offshore easterly winds.
The heat will be short-lived at the coast, as west winds slowly cool things down later in the day.
I gave you many temperature records the other day, but on Saturday, our 107-degree high here in Vancouver broke the old record for the date of 101 degrees in 2006.
We also tied the overnight warmest low temperature early Saturday at 67 degrees. That record was set in 2015.
Vancouver wasn’t the only place in Western Washington where it was extremely hot. As of 5 p.m., Seattle had reached 101 degrees, just shy of its all-time high of 103 degrees on July 29, 2009 — the same day we reached 108 degrees.
If you think a predicted high of 113 to 115 degrees is crazy for Vancouver, 113 degrees was predicted for Seattle on Monday. I had to pinch myself while writing this column to see if I was really here.
East of the Cascades, it was hot as well.
The Tri-Cities area hit 110 degrees. It reached 109 degrees in Troutdale, east of Vancouver. I had several emails from readers saying their thermometers had reached 108 to 111 degrees.
Hot weather extends into the foreseeable future. We’ll stay at 90 degrees or higher all week.
We’ll chat again on Tuesday, when we’ll enjoy highs in the mid-90s.
Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. ptimmwriter@gmail.com
