2005 Weather Stats For Wa, Or and Ca
Washington State
Seattle-Tacoma Aeroport
Yearly Rain 35.33 ins, Highest Temp 89.7, Lowest Temp 23.2
West Seattle
Yearly Rain 28.63 ins, Highest Temp 93.4, Lowest Temp 22.3
Bellevue
Yearly Rain 36.28 ins, Highest Temp 96.8, Lowest Temp 22.1
Kirkland
Yearly Rain 36.11 ins, Highest Temp 95.7, Lowest Temp 21.0
Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
Yearly Rain 24.46 ins, Highest Temp 91.5, Lowest Temp 27.5
Fremont Neighbourhood (Where I live and have a Vantage Pro Station on the roof of my house)
Yearly Rain 26.24 ins, Highest Temp 94.8, Lowest Temp 29.8
Olympia
Yearly Rain 47.13 ins, Highest Temp 96.4, Lowest Temp 21.9
Wenatchee
Yearly Rain 5.05
Sequim
Yearly Rain 9.62, Highest Temp 82.3, Lowest Temp 23.1
Tacoma
Yearly Rain 37.21, Highest Temp 94.2, Lowest Temp 13.6
Oregon
Portland
Yearly Rain 36.09, Highest Temp 96.1, Lowest Temp 24.0
Salem
Yearly Rain 38.46, Highest Temp 100.9, Lowest Temp 19.2
Eugene
Yearly Rain 34.67, Highest Temp 95.6, Lowest temp 22.2
Astoria
Yearly Rain 69.69, Highest Temp 86.6, Lowest Temp 29.4
Medford
Yearly Rain 22.73, Highest Temp 106.4, Lowest Temp 18.4
Brookings
Yearly Rain 49.32, Highest Temp 83.0, Lowest Temp 32.8
Corvallis
Yearly Rain 46.27, Highest Temp 99.7, Lowest Temp 18.4
California
San Francisco Aeroport
Yearly Rain 26.99
Noe Valley in the City (San Francisco)
Yearly Rain 21.13, Highest Temp 92.1, Lowest Temp 38.8
Santa Barbara
Yearly Rain 26.68, Highest Temp 96.9, Lowest Temp 36.8
Downtown Los Angeles
Yearly Rain 26.61, Highest Temp 99.3, Lowest Temp 41.3
Sacramento
Yearly Rain 32.26, Highest Temp 103.5, Lowest Temp 30.0
Redding
Yearly Rain 39.21, Highest Temp 110.5, Lowest Temp 21.8
Eureka
Yearly Rain 50.08, Highest Temp 79.7, Lowest Temp 28.0
Crescent City
Yearly Rain 67.95, Highest Temp 81.2, Lowest Temp 30.2
San Diego
Yearly Rain 13.99, Highest Temp 89.6, Lowest Temp 35.4
Palm Springs
Yearly Rain 9.20, Highest Temp 119.6, Lowest Temp 28.4
The following thread was started by Alain (Alon) Lucier in Seattle on December 31, 2005 at 10:50 pm PST
Lots of interesting nubers in there. Eureka, CA with more rain anually than Oly, WA was surprising and good 'ol Sequim with less than 10" per.
The above followup was added by BryceS on January 01, 2006 at 1:01 am PST.
2005 Weather Stats for BC and Upper Washington State
Ladner/Delta BC
Yearly Rain 29.06 ins or 738.1 mm, Highest Temp 88.3 F or 31.3 C, Lowest Temp 18.1 F or -7.7 C
Langley BC
Yearly Rain 51.06 ins or 1296.9 mm, Highest Temp 90.1 F or 32.3 C, Lowest Temp 15.2 F or -9.3 C
Victoria, Glanford BC
Yearly Rain 29.61 ins or 752.1 mm, Highest Temp 91.1F or 32.8 C, Lowest Temp 9.7 F or -12.4 C
Victoria, Hillside
Yearly Rain 19.46 ins or 494.3 mm, Highest Temp 89.3 F or 31.8 C, Lowest Temp 22.2 F or -5.1 C
I can't find any weather spotters for Victoria Harbour that is very mild. Can someone verify that -12.4 temp for Glanford in Victoria. I'm not sure where that is.
Ballenas Island BC
Yearly Rain 30.62 ins or 777.7 mm, Highest Temp 95.9 F or 35.5 C, Lowest Temp 22.9 F or -5.1 C
Campbell River, Race Point BC
Yearly Rain 43.80 ins or 1112.5 mm, Highest Temp 87.7 F or 30.9 C, Lowest Temp 32.0 F or 0.0 C
Tsawwassen/Delta BC
Yearly Rain 27.08 ins or 687.8 mm, Highest Temp 88.3 F or 31.3 C, Lowest Temp 25.5 F or -3.6 C
White Rock/South Surry BC
Yearly Rain 36.52 ins or 927.6 mm, Highest Temp 86.7 F or 16.7 C, Lowest Temp 30.4 F or -8.5 C
Orcas Island/Eastsound Washington
Yearly Rain 16.90 in or 429.3 mm, Highest Temp 88.0 F or 31.1 C, Lowest Temp 26.6 F or -3.0 C
Roche Harbour, Washington
Yearly Rain 25.38 ins or 644.7 mm, Highest Temp 83.3 F or 28.5 C, Lowest Temp 26.6 F or -3.0 C
Anacortes, Washington
Yearly Rain 24.53 ins or 623.1 mm, Highest Temp 83.2 F or 28.4 C, Lowest Temp 22.8 F or -5.1 C
I can't find any weather spotters for Vancouver, North Vancouver or West Vancouver
The above followup was added by Alain (Alon) Lucier in Seattle on January 01, 2006 at 3:35 am PST.
From my Vantage Pro station (I am not a Weather Spotter) . . .
Yearly rain - 3442 mm (135.5 inches)
Yearly low - 2.0C (28.4F)
Yearly high - 29.3C (85F)
The above followup was added by Brian, Tofino, BC on January 01, 2006 at 8:17 am PST.
Glanford low temps reported by the personal weather stations were inconsistent with other Victoria areas during the coldspell in January 2004. The low that station reported was 7°C lower than my lowest temp in Sidney.
Glanford is located by on the map at the number 6.
The above followup was added by Brad, Sidney on January 01, 2006 at 8:18 am PST.
Hi Alain.
The temperature at my house varies quite a bit from the inland stations in Bremerton, give or take a couple of degrees. I wanted to know if these Vantage Pro Weather Stations keep the days highs and lows and other data automatically to look up later, or do have to document the readings dayly? I would love to buy one of these devices, but at about $600.00 I would be dissapointed to find it didn't keep the data for the year, for a quick and easy look. I am gone most of the winter so this would be of paramount importance, if this tool would be worth anything to me at all. Thanks,
-Brian
The above followup was added by Brian on January 01, 2006 at 9:24 am PST.
I have vantage pro at my house in newport hills, which includes software to store all this data on P.C.. My data is uploaded to NWS and weatherunderground, so I can see current and past weather obs at my house from anywhere in the world. I highly recommend davis vantage pro 2 with fan aspirated thermometer. This is not cheap, but the biggest cost is the high speed internet to upload the data, not the weather station. Look at my data at http://www.weatherunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KWABELLE4 to see what you can do. I personally recommend not putting the thermometer on the roof, as this is not a very accurate reflection of temperature (hot air off roof in summer days; at nite, air closer to the surface is considerably cooler than the air at the top of a roof, with radiation off the roof also helping to artifactually warm the temps). I have my anemometer on a 10 foot pipe attached to my chimney for maximum exposure (world meteorology standards call for anemometer at 10 meters AGL). I have fan aspirated thermometer attached to outbuilding (shed) pretty close to 2 meters (which i believe is the standard). One should stick to these guidelines as much as possible. With vantage pro these are solar powered and wireless.
The above followup was added by PeterB on January 01, 2006 at 9:58 am PST.
see foto
The above followup was added by PeterB on January 01, 2006 at 11:10 am PST.
fan aspirated unit attached to shed
separating thermometer from anemometer requires simple purchase of additional transmitter. sorry for the large size of the photos
The above followup was added by PeterB on January 01, 2006 at 11:12 am PST.
I wonder where the 28F as a low in Eureka was taken? NOAA has a low in Eureka as 31F. This reading of 31F as the lowest temp is the same low I recorded on my digital gauge. I can't imagine that it had gotten down to 28F on woodly island in the middle of the bay where the NOAA weather station is. matt
The above followup was added by matt on January 01, 2006 at 11:51 am PST.
Peter:
After reading ypour message above, I setup a station with Wunderground. My link is attached below. I have had my Vantage Pro for two years, but I just got high speed internet in the last week. So, I was not able to take advantage of these sites up until now. I work away from home. It will be great to check up on local conditions during the week.
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IBRITISH26
The above followup was added by Brian, Tofino, BC on January 01, 2006 at 11:54 am PST.
I was down in Eureka on a tugboat, and it sure was 28F right on the water at the wood mill south of the Old Downtown Eureka. All the docks were covered with frost, and I was close to falling down a couple of times. I called Ian Barclay how cold it was, but I don't think he was too suprised. I saw damaged Canna's from frost in more than on yard. The strange thing is that Corral trees were in full bloom, with no sign on damage, even on the flowers.
-Brian
The above followup was added by Brian on January 01, 2006 at 12:38 am PST.
Stats for 2005
Low for Glanford Victoria was -4.5c
My area's data 3Km southwest from verterans memorial parkway.
Lowest temperature recorded in Jan05 was -4.9c
Highest temperature Aug04 2005 was 36.3c
The above followup was added by CJW on January 01, 2006 at 6:35 pm PST.
Hey I would love to see your local averages per year.
It would be interesting to see if there is an difference in compairing different locations.
The above followup was added by CJW on January 01, 2006 at 6:44 pm PST.
Brian, I hope you had your warm socks on. It's very possible that the 28F you experienced on the tug boat was for real. Microclimates are always intereseting to compare even w/in specific climate zones. matt
The above followup was added by matt on January 01, 2006 at 7:15 pm PST.
Hi Matt.
The other thing that was different is they said it was the first night in quite some time that the bar coming into the bay was calm. The nights had been very clear according to the people I talked to, and the cold was radiation frost plain and simple. Even though there was frost at the docks starting at about 9pm, it did little to no damage to anything I looked at, except some Cannas. The following day I had to go shopping, and it was beautiful weather. That is why you are in an exceptional place to garden. Frost in short duration, and a complete warmup the next day. If we had the daily warmups, even during some of our most extreme winters, that alone would make one heck of a difference on what could survive here. Looks like they are doing some nice things with the old downtown. Hope next time I am there I will have time to hit one of the restaraunts there. Take care.
-Brian
The above followup was added by Brian on January 01, 2006 at 8:17 pm PST.
SATURNA ISLAND BC 2005
Average Maximum temperature
Average minimum temperature
Average temperature
Extreme maximum temperature
Extreme minimum temperature
Total precipitation (mm)
J 7.9C 4.4C 6.2C 15.4C -2.1C 51.6
F 9.7C 4.9C 7.3C 19.9C 2.0C 36.4
M 13.1C 7.7C 10.4C 23.4C 5.0C 51.6
A 15.0C 8.7C 11.9C 21.1C 5.7C 20.4
M 18.8C 12.0C 15.4C 27.3C 9.8C 24.6
J 20.1C 12.8C 16.5C 24.5C 11.1C 28.4
J 23.6C 14.8C 19.2C 28.7C 12.2C 13.4
A 24.1C 14.7C 19.4C 28.1C 13.3C 17.0
S 19.4C 12.7C 16.0C 23.6C 10.2C 14.8
O 14.7C 10.7C 12.7C 17.1C 7.8C 63.6
N 9.5C 6.3C 7.9C 12.9C 2.5C 72.6
D 8.5C 6.0C 7.3C 15.0C 1.0C 66.0
Y 15.4C 9.6C 12.5C 28.7C -2.1C 460.4
The above followup was added by Mark on January 01, 2006 at 8:31 pm PST.
It's been a pretty nice year overall.
Let's hope 2006 is another good one!
Average maximum temperature
Average minimum temperature
Average temperature
Extreme maximum temperature
Extreme minimum temperature
Total precipitation
J | 46.2F | 39.9F | 43.2F | 59.7F | 28.2F | 2.03"
F | 49.5F | 40.8F | 45.1F | 67.8F | 35.6F | 1.43"
M | 55.6F | 45.9F | 50.7F | 74.1F | 41.0F | 2.03"
A | 59.0F | 47.7F | 53.4F | 70.0F | 42.3F | 0.80"
M | 65.8F | 53.6F | 59.7F | 81.1F | 49.6F | 0.97"
J | 68.2F | 55.0F | 61.7F | 76.1F | 52.0F | 1.12"
J | 74.5F | 58.6F | 66.6F | 83.7F | 54.0F | 0.53"
A | 75.4F | 58.5F | 66.9F | 82.6F | 55.9F | 0.67"
S | 66.9F | 54.9F | 60.8F | 74.5F | 50.4F | 0.58"
O | 58.5F | 51.3F | 54.9F | 62.8F | 46.0F | 2.50"
N | 49.1F | 43.3F | 46.2F | 55.2F | 36.5F | 2.86"
D | 47.3F | 42.8F | 45.1F | 59.0F | 33.8F | 2.60"
Y | 59.7F | 49.3F | 54.5F | 83.7F | 28.2F | 18.13"
The above followup was added by Mark on January 01, 2006 at 9:21 pm PST.
I'm assuming they are from actual observations, not historical statistics?
You definitely had a warm year, assuming all the average-temperature stats are accurate for 2005.
The above followup was added by Eric, Eugene on January 02, 2006 at 2:45 pm PST.
I must be adding wrong but I come up with an average of 14.8c or 58.6F so WAY above the so called 10c or 50F normal for around here. Interesting that someone else has got a temp above 10c mark other than me !
My extreme low in January was 23.9F -4.5c
My extreme high in January was 64.3F ~18c
My average temperature for 2005 is 58.6F
The above followup was added by CJW on January 02, 2006 at 5:12 pm PST.
Hi Eric. The Saturna statistics were recorded in 2005 at the official Environment Canada weather station on the island. They should be very accurate. You can see data on-line at: http://www.climat.meteo.ec.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?timeframe=2&Prov=XX&StationID=96&Year=2005&Month=1&Day=1
The above followup was added by Mark on January 02, 2006 at 5:41 pm PST.
The highest temp. I recorded for 2005 was 30 C. on Aug. 4 and the coldest minimum temp. was on Jan.15 when the mercury bottomed out at -4.5 C. Precip. for the year was 37" inches.
The above followup was added by Joe, SSI on January 03, 2006 at 9:53 am PST.
Curious as to what 2005's average temp was in your area?
The above followup was added by CJW on January 03, 2006 at 4:11 pm PST.
Really I have never been bothered to figure out my averages. I'm more concerned about how cold it got. I don't even really care how warm it ever gets, but I do record it anyway. When I have time I'll figure out the averages for you. Cheers, Joe
The above followup was added by Joe, SSI on January 04, 2006 at 8:11 am PST.
Can someone teach me what Demimetric is, exactly?
I have the ATLAS OF OREGON which lists fairly low averages for the 1950-1980 period. Since then warmer temps have driven the average up.
I think Eugene got to 98F for a high and 20F for a low.
The above followup was added by Eric, Eugene on January 04, 2006 at 2:44 pm PST.
I am curious to see the changes in the yearly averages as this
is a good of change in climate.
I don't know about you but I am seeing an overall slow warming trend since I began recording weather data in 1998.
The above followup was added by CJW on January 04, 2006 at 10:22 pm PST.