Cooler, Dryer Pattern Continues for 2019 Summer

Summer is 2/3 of the way complete, but you wouldn’t know it across the Inland Northwest.  This summer won’t go down in the record books as being cool, but just not has hot as the past three to four years.  Marilyn Lohmann meteorologist with the National Weather Service says with a few exceptions, it’s been very dry, since late spring.

“We did have that round of thunderstorms that went through here about a week and a half ago.  If you were underneath one, and got rain, you got a lot of rain.  And that’s always good and adds up in the bucket but sometimes its not really useful because it does all come at one shot.”

Lohman noted that at this point, many weather stations around the region have recorded only half of the normal number of days with highs above 100 degrees.  She addded that’s a stark contrast to the extremely hot and dry summer of 2015.

If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com