L.A. crowned with having most boring week of weather... ever
If you're a fan of weather, you've probably seen the hilarious movie "L.A. Story" where Steve Martin plays the role of a TV weatherman in Los Angeles. One of his running gags is that the weather in L.A. is so steady, that he can just tape the weather forecast days in advance.
This past week, the actual TV weathermen there could have just followed suit.
UW Research Meteorologist Mark Albright has looked up some of the weather in late July in the city of Angels, and at least for LAX Airport, you couldn't be more consistent:
July 22: High: 70. Low 63. Wind West (270 degrees), highest average 16 mph, peak gust 22 mph.
July 23: High: 70. Low 60. Wind West (260 degrees), highest average 17 mph, peak gust 24 mph.
July 24: High: 70. Low 60. Wind West (280 degrees), highest average 17 mph, peak gust 22 mph.
July 25: High: 70. Low 61. Wind West (270 degrees), highest average 17 mph, peak gust 23 mph.
July 26: High: 70. Low 60. Wind West (270 degrees), highest average 18 mph, peak gust 23 mph.
July 27: High: 70. Low 60. Wind West (270 degrees), highest average 17 mph, peak gust 21 mph.
July 28: High: 70. Low 61. Wind West (260 degrees), highest average 16 mph, peak gust 21 mph.
Seven consecutive days with the same high temperature? Even in steady Seattle in the winter, I don't think I've ever seen that kind of consistency.
But not to worry. The weather folks had their challenge back on the 29th when... the temperature went up one degree:
July 29: High: 71. Low 60. Wind West (270 degrees), highest average 16 mph, peak gust 22 mph.
July 30: High: 71. Low 62. Wind West (260 degrees), highest average 13 mph, peak gust 18 mph.
This incredible consistency is courtesy of a persistent marine flow, which has kept a stubborn cloud layer over the airport that hasn't budged in... nine days now. And it looks like as of this writing, they're about to make it 10 as so far, July 31 is on pace with all the other dates.
But it's not just the airport locked into such consistency. The high every day at their downtown L.A. location from July 22-30 has ranged between...76 and 80 with five of those days 78 or 79.
How long will it go? Quite a while, it seems. The seven day forecast from the National Weather Service office shows highs at LAX expected to remain between 70 and 73 through next Monday.
So, L.A. weather forecasters, just bring in a few extra ties this week, record a few shows, and perhaps take the rest of the week off?
Scott Sistek. Great spin doctor for seattle weather. 70 in LA is "boring" while cloudy 10 months a year in seattle is not. Lol. I have never heard the term "Sun Breaks" anywhere. Heck. I can be a Meteorologist in seattle, all I need to say is "today, there is gonna be a great chance of drizzle(100%) and a stronger pour in the mountains. with a little bit of "Sun Break" in the afternoon but don't count on it" then I can get paid $85,000 a year by KOMO.
Seattle fanatics response: Yeah but statistically there is more rain in New York, Chicago blah blah blah.
Seattle fanatic response 2: If you don't like the weather then get out of MY seattle! (like they own city)
Seattle fanatic response 3: "what seattle freeze? I never experience it."
There's people in Phoenix right now that would kill for this kind of boring weather.
OMG our weather sucks, and I'm going to do nothing but whine about it and give people who don't have a problem with it a hard time!!!
It's surprising when the sun is out when I wake up.. instant good mood. But these non-stop clouds.. gawd... get RID of them!
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Looks like the Blue Angels will be performing their 'Low-shows' (again) this year due to the cloud cover....
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I've figured a few things out about the Puget Sound weather (and the people regarding the weather:)
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There is an odd game people do when they live here, regarding the weather. If it's miserable here, like these non-existent summers, you see this "well, at LEAST it's not 110!" Or "at least we're not in _____, where they're having tornadoes (or insert any other extreme weather here _______ " Â Â Here's the thing. If you have to compare your weather to extreme weather somewhere else to justify where you live, your weather sucks. Â And, contrary to what you believe, there actually ARE places in the US where you have neither 57 minutes of 80 degree temps each summer, nor 112 degree heat waves, or tornadoes. Try comparing 9 months of gloom and drizzle to somewhere with good weather. Â
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And the infamous "well, it's never USUALLY like this." Â This one is a famous line that I hear often when new people move here and ask about the bad weather (like Juneuary.) Â This line is the fall-back line to make excuses for the fact that the weather here really does suck 90% of the time. I've lived here 9 years, and guess what? It usually IS like this. Â What happens is that I think that they are drawing upon the few years (every 7 years or so) when the weather actually resembles something normal (even for this area.) There is a fluke every so often where you actually get sun in October, and in June. Â So they hold out hope, and try to make people feel better who become disillusioned.Â
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And the absolute most common. Â When you talk about the area, and the many problems (whether it's crime, weather, pollution, health issues,) you MUST say (and I'm pretty sure it's a law) Â FIRST "well, it's REALLY a beautiful place...." Â That must preface everything you say negative. Seriously. Â It's like that comedian said once "Living in Seattle is like having a super model for a girlfriend, but she's always sick."Â
 @DT this is the most beautiful thing I have ever read. Thank you. Thank you.
 Seattle really sucks, I can't wait to move out of here... also check my comment above.Â
 @DT Wow this is so true!! Best and most realistic post I've ever read on this blog.
 @DT You my friend hit this Smack on the head! For all the gloomyness here all year around, folks look world wide to try to find something worse while trying to convince the natives this is great all year long.
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Where else can you find a place you can't see sunrise or sunset 90+% of the time but it's wonderful.
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lol, this is so true!!!Â
I would prefer to wake up to sunshine in the morning but I'm happy not to be waking up to rain.
More boring than ours? Wonder if that one writer is bored enough to write and trash us again after that article on our ice storm shutting us down.
@Zoso Dude, I would take LA's weather ANY day over ours. I totally agree with you. Man, waking up in the morning and seeing the sun out puts me in a great mood, but this cloudy weather every day is so frustrating
I think we've earned the "Most Pathetic Excuse for a Summer" award again this year. I especially like the way the marine layer has been burning off just ten minutes before sunset. That's a nice flourish.
Kind of like the universe giving us the finger to end our grey, miserable day.
and we were told this was going to be an above average summer too.
Last year we didn't make it to 90* and I doubt we will again this year.
On the positive side we are comfortable while the rest of the country is roasting.
 @mstipton Well, not really. Parts of the Country are roasting, but it doesn't mean that every place is bad this summer.  It's like having a terrible spouse who treats you badly, but you say to your friends "well, at least he's not in prison."  lol
@Fooey Patooey! yeah, like three years in a row now.
I am pretty bored with waking up to cloudy weather every morning that is supposed to clear up by afternoon and doesnt. For yet a 3rd year in a row, we are having another crappy summer. Im so tired of the summers that never happen
 @northwestsurfer You know, I've lived in places that had this kind of a summer pattern for a few months each year. And it was okay, because usually August- May was beautiful.  I can handle the beachy fog in the morning, but when you have 9 months of gray you expect to have at least 8 weeks of sunshine in the morning. Seriously, I find myself startled when I see sun coming into the kitchen in the morning when it happens... it's so WEIRD!Â
@DT I agree with you. But the weather the last few years has been prett crummy compared to when I moved here in 1997. Between then and say 2008, summers were warm, sunny, and occasionally we had a few 90 degree days or even a rare 100 degree day. It hasnt been the same though in the last few years.
@northwestsurfer It may be boring, but it is sooo good! We could be having the 100 degrees plus that the rest of the nation has had!
 @Rentonmark  @northwestsurfer Parts of the Nation have had 100 degrees. Contrary to what PNW people think, there are actually other parts of the Country than the South, and Arizona.  Seriously.  I don't mean to be snarky, but that is the standard response to justify living somewhere that seems to now have 11 months of gray skies each year. There are many other places in the Country that are not 100 degrees right now, nor cloudy 350 days a year. Â
 @Sewhappy  @DT  Not all of us that have lived here our entire lives are liking this weather.  Our summers take a while to come and when we finally do get them, I like them to actually feel like summer.  Most of the time we have great, very pleasant summers, but not recently.  I don't need 100 degrees or even 90 degrees on a regular basis to be happy and I don't think anyone else wants that either.  They and I just want a normal Seattle summer and this ain't it and hasn't been it for 3 years now.Folks should be allowed to complain about weather that hasn't even been normal for Seattle the past three years without being told to move or to stop whining.  Do you realize how many months in the last three years have been below normal temperature-wise around here?  Also, please don't assume you speak for every Seattle/western Washington native when it comes to what kind of weather we like.  You might like what we've gotten for the last 3 summers, but not everyone here, native to the area or not, does and I, at least, would appreciate it if you didn't assume that everyone was like you and found this weather enjoyable.Seriously people... just because we don't like how cool it has been here the past three summers, doesn't mean we're longing for the stifling heat that they're getting everywhere else.  We just don't want this.  I'll be happy as hell when it warms into the mid-80's this weekend.  That, to me, is summer.  I'm tired of seeing temperatures that barely climb into the 70's and marine layers that don't burn off until the middle of the afternoon.  I want a normal Seattle summer... nothing more, nothing less.
I've lived here my entire life (38 years) and our summers do suck.  I hate not being able to plan anything outside, because of the good chance of rain or it only being 65 degrees outside.   Â
I could deal with the cloudy/rainy winters we have if we could just get 2 months of consistent 80 degree days. Â
 @DT Please feel free to move, then. Those of us that have lived here our entire lives like the weather. If you don't, stop critisizing the rest of us and find someplace else to live. Blaming your bad mood on the weather is senseless, you are in charge of your mood, not the clouds.
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I'm from Arizona, I grew up there; 20 years. I moved here to the Seattle-Tacoma area in 1997 when I was stationed at Ft Lewis. I recall having consistently pleasant summers here back then, until a few years ago. I define pleasant as sunny, and warm, but not uncomfortable.
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@Rentonmark I would rather have 100 degrees and sunny, than perpetual cloudy weather and upper 60s; particularly when the forecast is sunshine and low to mid 70s.
I just watched the forecast this morning; its calling for mostly cloudy skies, upper to lower 70s, with rain on friday.