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I thought Washington did not have humidity. I was hoping to get away from it when we move there.
Not midwest style humidity, and rarely ever day after day of humid weather. Yesterday and Sunday afternoon got muggy-ish: over seventy and intermittant showers, and no wind at all. We have intermittant showers and no wind quite often, it's just usually under 50F! The relative humidity meter in my office has gone above 33% for the first time in... forever, so long I was sure it was broken... to a magnificent 44%, with the window wide open. What's really rare is humid nights, and it takes a monster of a heat wave for nighttime temps to stay above 70F, speaking in out-of-town terms. Anywhere with lots of pavement stays hotter at night.
Some places are more humid: the Willamette Valley for notable instance, and some places like Pe Ell and Cinnibar which sit in closed basin valleys get hotter and more humid under very specific weather conditions.
Of course the real fun about living on the wet side is that the topography leads to some whacky microclimates: my house is 10 degrees colder in winter, on average over 25 years and 5 degrees warmer in summer, ditto, than my cousin's place twenty feet above me and a hundred feet away, and both of our places get around five inches a year less rain than my sister's place, which is 1.2 miles away as the crow flies. Even worse, we are all colder/hotter/much, much wetter than the official weather station at the Olympia Airport, which is five miles away but in a little pocket rain shadow of the Black Hills, which top out below 3000 ft (useful to remember that our plateau is at 200 ft or so). The airport gets just under 40 inches of rain a year; The Evergreen State College, ten miles north and in the opposite of a rain shadow, gets 60.
Remember that when you look for a farm, here. Look for oak and avoid cedar. Get a topo map and check to see that you're not in a closed basin (my winter lows are because I'm in a stagnant air trap). Avoid the north side of hills.
Thanks for the very good info.
I thought Washington did not have humidity. I was hoping to get away from it when we move there.
Not midwest style humidity, and rarely ever day after day of humid weather. Yesterday and Sunday afternoon got muggy-ish: over seventy and intermittant showers, and no wind at all. We have intermittant showers and no wind quite often, it's just usually under 50F! The relative humidity meter in my office has gone above 33% for the first time in... forever, so long I was sure it was broken... to a magnificent 44%, with the window wide open. What's really rare is humid nights, and it takes a monster of a heat wave for nighttime temps to stay above 70F, speaking in out-of-town terms. Anywhere with lots of pavement stays hotter at night.
Some places are more humid: the Willamette Valley for notable instance, and some places like Pe Ell and Cinnibar which sit in closed basin valleys get hotter and more humid under very specific weather conditions.
Of course the real fun about living on the wet side is that the topography leads to some whacky microclimates: my house is 10 degrees colder in winter, on average over 25 years and 5 degrees warmer in summer, ditto, than my cousin's place twenty feet above me and a hundred feet away, and both of our places get around five inches a year less rain than my sister's place, which is 1.2 miles away as the crow flies. Even worse, we are all colder/hotter/much, much wetter than the official weather station at the Olympia Airport, which is five miles away but in a little pocket rain shadow of the Black Hills, which top out below 3000 ft (useful to remember that our plateau is at 200 ft or so). The airport gets just under 40 inches of rain a year; The Evergreen State College, ten miles north and in the opposite of a rain shadow, gets 60.
Remember that when you look for a farm, here. Look for oak and avoid cedar. Get a topo map and check to see that you're not in a closed basin (my winter lows are because I'm in a stagnant air trap). Avoid the north side of hills.
Thanks for the very good info.
