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KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | As US sizzles in summer heat, Seattle shivers

SEATTLE (AP) - Since summer started a month ago, cloudy and cool weather have been prominent in Western Washington.

University of Washington professor of atmospheric sciences Cliff Mass says the unusual cloud coverage over Western Washington is coming from a trough that has been consistently sitting on the eastern Pacific.

He says the result has been the inverse of July's usual pattern. Instead of wet and cool at the beginning of the month, those days came in the middle of the month. He says the last week of July and the beginning of August are typically the driest weeks of the year.

He adds the forecast calls for a dry and warm weekend, then back to clouds.

But he says there are signs the trough is weakening.

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When fall arrived, the East, Midwest, South East, and of course, the South West had warm-summer like temperatures, and it’s still occurring. But here in the Northwest, our fall arrived with cool temperatures and rain. And it’s been like that for weeks now. We haven’t had a decent sunny, warm day for a long time. October is here and it’s only going to get colder and colder. I heard it may continue raining as system after system moves in all the way until the end of October. And of course, we all know it’s just going to get rainier and snowy as winter arrives all the way until late spring–May. Does this make you jealous, angry, sad or what? What if our summer is just like this years? Hardly a summer with overcast and rainy conditions…

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