Cliff Mass Weather Blog

 If you asked Google AI where the best weather in the U.S. will be, the answer will warm your heart:

 Late June or early July is the traditional start time for the North American (or Southwest) Monsoon, during which moisture streams northward from Mexico into the southwestern U.S., bringing substantial showers to Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and sometimes Oregon, Idaho, and eastern Washington.

See the schematic below.  Suc...

One of the reasons Northwest weather is so temperate in summer is the cool coastal waters off our coast.

And this year, we start the summer with surface waters cooler than normal.

 The  Chelan Hills fire, reported to have been started by some irresponsible fireworks Saturday morning, has now spread to over 10,000 acres (see map below).

Walking my dog yesterday, I ran into a neighbor who asked whether July 4th temperatures in our area had changed much under global warming. 

I promised to run the numbers... and here are the results.  

Be prepared to be surprised 😀.

Starting at Olympia, on the western side of the state, there is almost no trend in July 4 daily average t...