A 2005 satellite image of Cascadia. We live in a landscape that is wedded to the ocean. |
Daily average temperature dating back to 1987 from NOAA's Cape Elizabeth buoy. This year's data are bolded in green. |
By the way, I'm assuming that odd spike in the red line around the 270th day of the year is spurious...haven't checked that out yet...but based on how it looks compared to the rest of the record I don't think it is real.
The Cape Elizabeth buoy is some distance off-shore. Is this warmth evident closer to the coast? It appears so. Here are temperature data form the tide gauge in La Push. While this is a much shorter record, dating back to only 2005, it also appears as if some new temperature records were set at La Push in the middle of July:
Daily average temperature dating back to 2005 from NOAA's tide gauge in La Push, Washington. This year's data are bolded in blue. |
This does appear to possibly be something not affecting the inland sea. Here is the same plot from Friday Harbor:
Daily average temperature dating back to 1992 from NOAA's tide gauge in Friday Harbor. This year's data are bolded in red. |
It is warm...the most recent observations from Friday Harbor are almost 14C, or almost 57F (yes, that is warm for the inland sea)...but nowhere near the record highs set in the summer of 1997 (the light blue line in the plot above).
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