Summer by the minute(s)

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Summer by the minute(s)</h1>
                <h2><p>Seattle has been enjoying a lot of real summer weather: Meteorologist Scott Sistek reports on Komonews.com that the city (based on measurements made at the UW) has had just under 10,000 minutes this summer where the temp was 80 degrees or higher. We're at 9,979</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Seattle has been enjoying a lot of real summer weather: Meteorologist Scott Sistek <a href="http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/Seattle-Home-of-10000-minutes-of-summer-warmth-almost-272987631.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">reports on Komonews.com</a> that the city (based on measurements made at the UW) has had just under 10,000 minutes this summer where the temp was 80 degrees or higher. We're at 9,979 minutes (or 166-plus hours; 6.9 days), and there's a good chance we will top 10K. Sistek came up with his fun idea of charting the minutes during chilly, rainy 2011, when we entered August with less than a full hour of 80-degree temps. — J.C.</p>
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Seattle has been enjoying a lot of real summer weather: Meteorologist Scott Sistek reports on Komonews.com that the city (based on measurements made at the UW) has had just under 10,000 minutes this summer where the temp was 80 degrees or higher. We're at 9,979 minutes (or 166-plus hours; 6.9 days), and there's a good chance we will top 10K. Sistek came up with his fun idea of charting the minutes during chilly, rainy 2011, when we entered August with less than a full hour of 80-degree temps. — J.C.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi