The deck was already stacked against us to begin with.
Heading into the holiday respite, Seattle’s numbers weren’t pretty: 10 Memorial Day weekends since 2000 had featured rain on at least one of the days from Friday to Monday.
Make that 11.
Seattleites spent the majority of the long weekend with an umbrella in hand, victims of persistent low pressure that brought measurable rainfall to the city Friday, Sunday and, naturally, much of today. Fortunately, the widespread moisture associated with the current system has moved off to our north, leaving most of the region with just scattered showers as we head into prime barbecuing hours.
Tomorrow promises to be better from start to finish, with no big rainmaker in the cards. Temperatures will also warm up a couple notches, nudging toward the 65-degree mark in most spots. However, isolated showers will still dot the region—especially later in the afternoon.
It’s back to full-on rain Wednesday as another area of low pressure crashes onshore near Astoria. This will send a batch of moisture rolling up the I-5 corridor, with rain reaching the Seattle area shortly before noon. The second half of the day should be pretty wet for late May, with up to a third of an inch of rain from downtown Seattle northward, and half an inch further south into Pierce and Thurston counties. High temperatures will struggle to hit 60.
Things lighten up on Thursday as the front shuffles eastward, leaving us with just on-and-off showers and mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures will again top off several degrees cooler than normal, only rising into the upper 50s and lower 60s.
Our ace in the hole finally arrives on Friday as an upper-level ridge scoots over the Northwest, squelching the shower activity and nosing temperatures into the upper 60s—right about normal for this time of year. On Saturday, we look to do even better, with partly sunny skies taking us near 70 degrees—a mark Seattle hasn’t hit since the midway point of the month.
Back when we were being dealt a better hand.
Is this an over soggy May? Or is it just me sick of this weather?
A bit of both–it’s been wetter than normal, but not by that much (through today, Seattle has had 0.41 inches more than average). I’m right there with you, though, on how annoyingly wet it’s been of late. I think the problem is that all of the rain this month has fallen in the past two weeks–with a sizeable chunk centered around Memorial Day weekend.
Thanks! So what’s the outlook this summer?
Probably a little warmer and drier than usual–I think we’ll see summer-like weather again in June, as opposed to having to wait until July like the past few years. Fingers crossed!