<h1 class="Headline">Wednesday Seattle's Hottest Day On Record</h1>
<div><span class="updated">Updated: 6:41 am PDT July 30, 2009</span></div>
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<div class="StoryBody"><strong class="Dateline">SEATTLE -- </strong>The National Weather Service reported Sea-Tac Airport reaching 103 degrees, making it the hottest day in the history of local weather records.</div>
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<div>The official low at Sea-Tac was 71 degrees Wednesday morning, making it the warmest low temperature on record. The old all-time record warm low of 69 degrees was set back on Sept. 2, 1974.<br><br><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/16/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted Moffett</b> <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<h2>El Niño Arrives; Expected to Persist through Winter 2009-10</h2>
<p>July 9, 2009 </p>
<p>NOAA scientists today announced the arrival of El Niño, a climate phenomenon with a significant influence on global weather, ocean conditions and marine fisheries. El Niño, the periodic warming of central and eastern tropical Pacific waters, occurs on average every two to five years and typically lasts about 12 months. </p>
<p><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090709_elnino.html" target="_blank">http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090709_elnino.html</a></p></div>
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<div>My comment:</div>
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<div>This may result in next winter being drier than the past few winters for the Northwest US. As temperatures are predicted to hit the upper 90s F. the next few days in Moscow, this news may be unseasonal; but the arrival of an El Nino event is significant if you worry about plans for the snow removal budget in North Idaho. Also, El Nino may have more immediate effects on US weather in other areas, and of course globally. Caps as appearing on NOAA website below (no intent to yell):</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/fxus05.html" target="_blank">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/fxus05.html</a></div>
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<div>SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#ssts" target="_blank">(SSTS)</a> IN THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN ARE NOW WELL ABOVE NORMAL AND <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#cpc" target="_blank">CPC</a> HAS DECLARED AN <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#el+nino" target="_blank">EL NINO</a> IN EFFECT. WATER TEMPERATURES ARE WELL ABOVE NORMAL IN THE UPPER 200 METERS OF THE TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, MAKING IT LIKELY THAT ABOVE NORMAL <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#ssts" target="_blank">SSTS</a> WILL CONTINUE INTO THE REST OF SUMMER, FALL AND WINTER. THE CFS MODEL CORRECTLY ANTICIPATED THIS RAPID TRANSITION IN ITS FORECASTS FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS, AND ITS CURRENT FORECAST SHOWS <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#sst" target="_blank">SST</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#anomalies" target="_blank">ANOMALIES</a> APPROACHING 2 KELVIN IN THE COMING FEW MONTHS, SUGGESTING THAT MODERATE <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#el+nino" target="_blank">EL NINO</a> CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR. </div>
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<div>THE TEMPERATURE OUTLOOK FOR ASO 2009 CALLS FOR AN ENHANCED LIKELIHOOD OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE SOUTH FROM ARIZONA TO FLORIDA. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE FAVORED IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND. CHANCES FOR BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE ENHANCED IN THE MIDWEST AND UPPER PLAINS. ELSEWHERE, EQUAL CHANCES OF BELOW, NEAR, AND ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE PREDICTED. <br>
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<div>A <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#trend" target="_blank">TREND</a>-RELATED DRY FORECAST IS <br>INDICATED FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. </div>
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<div>BELOW MEDIAN PRECIPITATION IS <br>FAVORED IN <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/seasglossary.html#el+nino" target="_blank">EL NINO</a> WINTERS FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND PARTS OF THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEYS. </div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div></blockquote></div><br>