Published: Saturday, July 16, 2011
Summer's sun still elusive, but the berries are ripe for picking
Forecasters say it will be a while longer before true summer weather arrives.
Are we halfway through July already? It sure doesn't feel like it.
Meteorologists expected the weather to rebound by now and treat us to those perfectly sunny days that make summer in Western Washington worth the wait.
Keep waiting, said Art Gaebel at the National Weather Service in Seattle.
"Everybody this time of year expects to see a sunrise and a sunset, but not yet," he said. "Hopefully, the summer kicks in here sometime soon."
It won't happen this weekend.
A cold front scheduled to come through the region late Friday was expected to bring some showers this morning. Cloudy skies with temperatures reaching into mid- to upper-60s are expected the rest of the day, Gaebel said.
Sunday temperatures are forecast to be in the lower 70s, but Gaebel said he couldn't rule out showers.
The normal day's high for the first half of July is 72 degrees.
That hasn't been the norm this month: Only five days reached 70, said meteorologist Ricardo Humphreys. He tallied the average temperature so far at just under 60. That's about 3 degrees under normal. The measurements were taken at Paine Field.
Next week's forecast is still up in the air, but those magical, all-the-way-sunny days are unlikely, Gaebel said.
"If you want summer weather, head to the Midwest. You'd be pressing 100 degrees," he said.
Dianna Biringer of Biringer Farm near Arlington hopes the weekend is at least on the dry and sunny side: The farm's annual Red Rooster Days are today and Sunday.
The farm's famous strawberry crop was late this year, but it's finally here. "The strawberries are laying heavy on the vines, and the raspberries are coming on," Biringer said. "We just need people to come and pick them."
The farm had to get workers out of the fields on a few occasions because the rain was too heavy, she said. Many people still braved the weather and picked berries in the mud.
Katya Yefimova: 425-339-3452; kyefimova@heraldnet.com.
Meteorologists expected the weather to rebound by now and treat us to those perfectly sunny days that make summer in Western Washington worth the wait.
Keep waiting, said Art Gaebel at the National Weather Service in Seattle.
"Everybody this time of year expects to see a sunrise and a sunset, but not yet," he said. "Hopefully, the summer kicks in here sometime soon."
It won't happen this weekend.
A cold front scheduled to come through the region late Friday was expected to bring some showers this morning. Cloudy skies with temperatures reaching into mid- to upper-60s are expected the rest of the day, Gaebel said.
Sunday temperatures are forecast to be in the lower 70s, but Gaebel said he couldn't rule out showers.
The normal day's high for the first half of July is 72 degrees.
That hasn't been the norm this month: Only five days reached 70, said meteorologist Ricardo Humphreys. He tallied the average temperature so far at just under 60. That's about 3 degrees under normal. The measurements were taken at Paine Field.
Next week's forecast is still up in the air, but those magical, all-the-way-sunny days are unlikely, Gaebel said.
"If you want summer weather, head to the Midwest. You'd be pressing 100 degrees," he said.
Dianna Biringer of Biringer Farm near Arlington hopes the weekend is at least on the dry and sunny side: The farm's annual Red Rooster Days are today and Sunday.
The farm's famous strawberry crop was late this year, but it's finally here. "The strawberries are laying heavy on the vines, and the raspberries are coming on," Biringer said. "We just need people to come and pick them."
The farm had to get workers out of the fields on a few occasions because the rain was too heavy, she said. Many people still braved the weather and picked berries in the mud.
Katya Yefimova: 425-339-3452; kyefimova@heraldnet.com.
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