Zizzling - yes we reached 103F

If we thought Monday was "Zcorching", today and possibly even tomorrow will have even more of it.

Walked the dog last night just after midnihgt. Temperature was more a night in Dallas than here in the PNW. Only missing was the sound of nightly crickets. As it was for us, it was dead silent (nice) and it seemed like most people really had not only tucked in, but also zoomed out. The heat can do that to some.

This morning it was already past 85F when jumping out of bed around 8.30 AM. At noon it passed 95F and if all goes well, we'll set a new Seattle record if we hit 101F out at SeaTac.

After airing the house out over night (or rather, letting cooler air in), house is now boarded up and we'll do OK even without any A/C or large fans. Sort of reminds of Dallas where I normally never turned on the A/C, until the cat really needed it (and then put the A/C at 85F just to keep the humidty down inside). Compare that to one of my bosses who kept his house at 65F in the Texas summer...

UPDATE:
As predicted, at 2.53 PM this afternoon the old "all-time-high" record at Seatac (100F) was broken and a new offical high-temp of 103F was recorded later in the afternoon around 5 PM. Pretty cool!

Even at past 11PM, it is still above 90F outside - that is RARE, since it under a normal year barely ever hits 90F as the high temp of a day. But, we are not complaining. Fans are humming slowly to bring in the (now) cooler night air.

Some of today's temperatures in the PNW:
Vancouver, WA: 107
Kelso: 106
Portland: 106 (all-time record: 107)
Chehalis: 106
Renton: 105
Tacoma: 104
Olympia: 104 (ties all-time record)
Shelton: 104
Seattle (Sea-Tac): 103 (all-time record)
Seattle (Boeing Fld): 103
Gig Harbor: 103
Arlington: 102
Bremerton: 102
North Bend: 102
Everett: 100
Friday Harbor: 97
Bellingham: 96
Port Angeles: 92
Forks: 83
Hoquiam: 77