Summer Starts After the 4th of July
When I first arrived to this area in the spring of 1995, we had a common saying at the office: Summer doesn’t start until after the 4th of July. Blue-tarp camping was common on the Memorial Day weekend, and even the Independence Day holiday was no guarantee of warm weather. In fact the National Weather Service in Seattle had determined that summer didn’t start there until July 12. But in the last 10 years, we’ve had some rather hot Junes, calling our phrase into question. However, 2024 has followed the old script. June was far from a summer month. After yesterday’s storms, the rainfall for June in Deer Park was exactly normal; 1.90”. And the average temperature was also, exactly normal. You don’t often see such a “normal” month. I’m guessing some if not most of you felt that this June was colder than normal. But not so. Probably demonstrating that our memories are short. This June was cooler than the previous 3 years, but the same as 2020. Here’s the weather map from Monday morning