Freeland, Washington

... Record high temperature set at Seattle WA WFO...

a record high temperature of 86 degrees was set at Seattle WA WFO
today. This breaks the old record of 79 set in 2007.

... Washington precipitation summary for the month of June...


June was very dry for most of Washington... especially the west side.

For western Washington... the percentage of normal precipitation

Ranged from just 18 for the Puget Sound lowlands to 52 for the west

Cascade foothills. The greatest amount of precipitation reported at

Climate stations for the foothills and mountains... coasts... and

Interior lowlands was 2.85 inches at Cedar Lake... 1.99 inches at

Grayland... and 1.26 inches at Battle Ground respectively.


For eastern Washington... the percentage of normal precipitation

Ranged from 43 for the Okanogan region to 117 for the northeast

Region. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded at climate

Stations for the mountains and lowlands was 1.20 inches at Pullman

And 2.35 inches at Republic respectively.


The outlook for July and beyond... the outlook for the next two weeks

Is for near normal precipitation. For the entire month of July the

Outlook is for greater chance of below normal precipitation. The

Outlook for the period July through September is for below normal

Precipitation except for the northwest corner which is for greater

Chance of below normal precipitation.


The Table below gives precipitation figures as a percent of normal

For regions of Washington. The current water year began 1 October

2008 and ends 30 September 2009.


                            June water year past 3 past 12

                            2009 to date months months

Western Washington

coast 34 84 86 85

Olympics 36 66 67 67

northwest interior 23 100 96 99

Puget Sound lowlands 18 90 109 91

southwest interior 33 86 99 85

west foothills Cascades 52 95 96 95

Cascades 41 93 99 93


Eastern Washington

east slopes Cascades 66 92 99 89

Okanogan 43 73 57 72

Central Basin 76 93 76 87

northeast 117 94 84 90

Palouse and Blue Mountains 93 120 107 112




The Table below expresses precipitation in inches and as a percent of

Normal for a variety of locations around the state. Occasionally

Missing data at a site are estimated using observed data from

Surrounding stations.


                  June 2009 water year to date past 12 months

                  inches pct inches pct inches pct


Quillayute 1.02 29 71.32 77 81.41 80

Hoquiam 0.33 14 53.13 84 57.49 84

Bellingham 0.40 21 27.21 89 31.02 89

Seattle 0.18 12 31.01 92 35.14 95

Olympia 0.22 12 39.05 83 41.60 82

Longview 1.17 52 42.04 94 45.83 93


Concrete 1.09 36 60.50 94 66.84 94

Snoqualmie Falls 1.97 67 49.39 89 56.59 92

Randle 1.48 53 59.12 106 63.06 103

Diablo dam 0.83 33 56.88 79 63.63 81

Stampede Pass 1.95 49 80.25 106 86.65 103

Paradise* 1.62 41 103.53 93 110.02 92


Winthrop 0.76 72 11.10 86 11.74 78

Stehekin* 0.60 66 33.73 100 35.77 99

Leavenworth* 0.56 66 21.88 94 23.25 93

Mount Adams 0.87 82 30.30 74 31.51 73

Wenatchee* 0.52 76 6.94 87 7.24 79

Yakima 0.52 84 6.26 86 6.82 83


Coulee dam* 0.40 43 6.99 74 7.67 69

Lind* 0.44 76 7.97 93 8.55 86

Republic 2.35 134 13.50 99 16.59 98

Spokane 1.18 100 13.96 96 15.07 90

Pullman 1.20 92 20.67 112 22.59 108

Dayton* 0.98 93 20.33 118 21.43 110


* = estimated