Updated Jul 9, 2009 - 2:52 pm
Puget Sound poised for extremely dry summer
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A research scientist with the university's Climate Impacts Group, Phil Mote, says the last significant rain in most of the region was May 19. The 46-day period from then to the Fourth of July was the driest on record at four Western Washington weather stations. Only .18 inch of rain was reported in the period at Sea-Tac Airport.
UW atmospheric sciences professor Cliff Mass says by the later portion of July the probability of precipitation plummets to around 10 percent in the lowlands. He says on his blog that the Northwest lowlands are some of the driest locations in the entire U.S. in July and August.
The driest day of the year is July 29.
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