Tuesday, July 19, 2011

With autumn closing in, Seattle's already experienced 78 minutes of summer

Seattle: Home of the 78-minute summer | Seattle News
The mission: Find out how many minutes it's been at 80 degrees or warmer this year-- what I would call a true warm summer day in Seattle.

The answer: 78 minutes.

Or, breaking it down: 12 minutes on July 2, and 66 minutes on July 6.
... Seattle (at Sea-Tac) does average 25 days a year at 80 or warmer.
....
It turns out, we've had a whopping 18 hours and 48 minutes of temperatures above 75 this summer -- hey, it's more than 2/3rd of a day!

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