Ready for some warmer weather? Whatcom County forecast calls for temperatures in the 80s
In what meteorologists are calling a “weather whiplash,” Whatcom County and the rest of Western Washington could see the first temperatures in the 80s later this week.
Skies will turn mostly sunny on Wednesday and Thursday, with an abrupt rise in temperature, on the heels of a late-season atmospheric river of storms that dropped more about half an entire June’s worth of rain in four days.
“Friday and Saturday are currently look like the warmest days of the long term, with temperatures expected to climb into the upper 70s to low 80s across the area. Heat risk is generally expected to remain in the minor category for the majority of Western Washington for now,” meteorologist Jacob DeFlitch said online.
Forecasters had been concerned about a prolonged heat wave with temperatures closer to 90 degrees this weekend.
But that threat seems to have eased because low pressure will be moving over the area and lowering temperatures to more seasonable levels starting Sunday and continuing into next week.
It’s unclear if fair skies will remain in the long term or if the “June gloom” will return.
An extended Northwest forecast calls for above-normal temperatures and below-normal rainfall through the rest of the month.
Normal temperatures for June in Bellingham and lowland Whatcom County include highs in the upper 60s and lows in the low 50s.
Average high temperatures in May were 2 degrees below normal, and June opened with average temperatures 8 degrees below normal.
