Puget Sound region about to experience incredibly early heat wave
Jun 3, 2016, 11:56 AM | Updated: 7:57 pm
The Olson Kundig architecture firm will place a giant ice cube in Seattle's Occidental Park this September. (AP)
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The unseasonably hot weather expected in the Puget Sound region this weekend is part of an unusual heatwave in the Pacific Northwest.
The National Weather Service reports the “very hot” weather will be part of a heatwave that, at least for Oregon, will be “one of the earliest heatwaves of this magnitude.”
“Several record high temperatures will be approached or broken this weekend,” the Weather Service reports. “This could be the earliest 100 degree occurrence at some locations.”
An Excessive Heat Watch will be upgraded to an Excessive Heat Warning from 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 p.m. Sunday for areas of Oregon and, quite possibly, the southern foothills of the Cascades in Washington.
Temperatures on Saturday are likely to reach into the mid-80s to the low 90s around Puget Sound, according to the Weather Service. Temperatures on Sunday will be “even hotter.” Morning temperatures will only fall to the low 60s around Seattle.
For those that enjoy the kind of heat we will experience Sunday, KIRO 7’s Nick Allard says to head on to downtown Seattle or east. Otherwise, hide until next week.
Allard says things begin to cool off — if you can call low- to mid-80s cooling off — on Monday. It will be in the 70s Tuesday.
“It’s practically going to snow on Monday,” Allard quipped.
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