Seattle, are you rethinking your lack of AC yet?

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Marissa Brent-Tookey

Marissa Brent-Tookey Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Seattle, are you rethinking your lack of AC yet?</h1>
                <h2><p>This year has broken temperature records so many days and months in a row, it's hardly a surprise to learn that the hot, dry weather will is projected through at least next autumn. Scott Sistek of the KOMO News weather blog attempts to answer everyone's burning</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/marissa-brent-tookey-crosscut-com/">Marissa Brent-Tookey</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Jan 12, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>This year has broken temperature records so many days and months in a row, it's hardly a surprise to learn that the hot, dry weather will is projected through at least next autumn. Scott Sistek of the <a href="http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/Seattle-warm-stretch-to-last-into-October--2016-315989291.html?mobile=y&clmob=y&c=n&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">KOMO News weather blog</a> attempts to answer everyone's burning question: "Why, WHY, WHY!?!?! is this all happening?" by breaking down <a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">NOAA's forecast maps with color-coded regions</a> through October 2016. They're orange for hotter than average, blue for colder than average. Brown for dry, green for wet. And the Pacific Northwest is consistently orange and brown, while the south is more blue and green than one might expect.</p>
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This year has broken temperature records so many days and months in a row, it's hardly a surprise to learn that the hot, dry weather will is projected through at least next autumn. Scott Sistek of the KOMO News weather blog attempts to answer everyone's burning question: "Why, WHY, WHY!?!?! is this all happening?" by breaking down NOAA's forecast maps with color-coded regions through October 2016. They're orange for hotter than average, blue for colder than average. Brown for dry, green for wet. And the Pacific Northwest is consistently orange and brown, while the south is more blue and green than one might expect.

By Marissa Brent-Tookey

Marissa Brent-Tookey is an editorial intern at Crosscut. She holds a B.A. in French from Seattle University and now studies film production at Shoreline Community College. In addition to crewing a doz