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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Your Seattle Independence Day Forecast

Posted by on Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:02 AM

Cliff Mass: "FINALLY, True Summer Begins" (he has not yet weighed in on DOOM).

And for Seattle, from the newly spruced up National Weather Service:

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(They had a link to leave a comment—mine was going to be "Your suns need to be more GOLDEN, Uncle Sam!"—but then it said the comment period had ended. Booooooo.)

 

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Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 1
Pasco having a real summer:

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/99…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://www.you-read-it-here-first.com on July 3, 2012 at 9:26 AM
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Highs in 70's??!! I want to go to there! Lake Michigan is ready to start boiling any day now!
Posted by Scott in Chi-town on July 3, 2012 at 9:36 AM
biffp 3
Cliff said that La Nina was gone this year (after two years in a row). Was he wrong about that or is this the normal Seattle weather pattern?
Posted by biffp on July 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM
4
Summer been pretty good so far in the 70s and high 60s. Sure overcast some days but much better than heat that can kill you.
Posted by Seattle14 on July 3, 2012 at 10:38 AM
internet_jen 5
Back in March I put in for the last two weeks of July off work. Heck Yes!
Posted by internet_jen on July 3, 2012 at 10:40 AM
6
@ 1 Damn they got a heat wave going on with the temps in the 90s. I prefer doesn't get above 80-85 so I love summer's in seattle.
Posted by Democrat1234 on July 3, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In 7
This is appropriate: http://imgur.com/gallery/zWjii
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on July 3, 2012 at 11:15 AM
biffp 8
Only in Seattle is July 4 considered early in the summer. Back East, July 4 is well into summer.
Posted by biffp on July 3, 2012 at 11:42 AM
gloomy gus 9
rilly, @8?
Posted by gloomy gus on July 3, 2012 at 12:09 PM
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@ 8 Depends on who you ask in seattle for a lot of us summer starts in june when it reaches the mid 60s.
Posted by Democrat1234 on July 3, 2012 at 2:30 PM
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yes well in novosibersk summe ris thirty degrees, right?

folks, here in seattle we're a full forty degrees less than big bad Back East. or Down South. forty degrees~ ! like it, hate it, suffer it revel in it, it's a huge difference. it's like saying "oh in michigan they have real winter, zero degrees in january!" and some yahoo from seattle goes "well we have a real winter too, it's forty degrees, brrrrr!"

fact is the seasons and lcimate and geography here match the local personality: cool, wet, and remote. When we sing "hot time in the summer time" or "hot time, summer in the city, back a my neck getting good and gritty" no we ain't singing about no fucking sixty degrees jack, more like 95, warm enough to stip down to tank top and short shorts and women showing lots of body and jumping in the ocean because you have to because it's hot out and letting the sun roast your skin on the saltaire beach and going out at night when you can screw outdoors and you don't have to wear a goddamn fucking goretex jacket to do it in. being naked in the dunes on the beach, running in the water at midnight for a fun dip, going to the club and dancing all night working up a sweat, having it be 90 still at midnight, now that's summer. this here? this here? this is fucking junetember weather, seriously sixty degrees to us from back east is like mid fucking october, good footbal weather because you don't start sweating right away you have to work up to it take off your windbreaker then you might not even sweat. this is octobtemperature. it's not summer. there is no summer here. summer never comes.
Posted by not gritty, not hot on July 3, 2012 at 8:53 PM

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