If it wasn’t record-breaking heat Thursday, it sure felt like it, with top temperatures in three North Olympic Peninsula cities competing for records set in 1989.
But that won’t last, a National Weather Service forecaster said.
After a very slight chance of showers this morning, the area will cool back to the normal mid-60s today, predicted meteorologist Dennis D’Amico of the National Weather Service office in Seattle.
Port Townsend was a couple of degrees shy of its record heat at 82 degrees. The record of 84 degrees was set in 1989, D’Amico said.
The hottest city on the Peninsula on Thursday was Forks, which recorded a top temperature of 90, the hottest June 4 since 1989.
“It really was quite warm out there,” said D’Amico, adding that the average for the day is 64 degrees.
Sequim also tied its record, with 85 degrees. Like Forks, its record for June 4 was set in 1989.
Port Angeles recorded 83 degrees on Thursday — one degree over the 82 degrees recorded on June 4, 2003.
Since Port Angeles’ official records date back only to 2000, the weather service does not consider the records sufficient to permit it to refer to record temperatures.
“For their very short record history, it was the warmest it has been,” D’Amico said.
A heat advisory was issued for the Puget Sound area and the east side of the Kitsap Peninsula on Thursday. The area was expected to cool off today.
Across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Victoria broke its temperature record for the third day in a row Thursday.
According to the Victoria Times Colonist, the temperature Thursday was 84 degrees, surpassing the date’s previous record of 83 degrees.
D’Amico said that showers would probably be south of the Peninsula.
Chances for showers are likely on Saturday, D’Amico said. Temperatures are expected to remain in the mid-60s — for a while, he added.
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Reporter Paige Dickerson can be reached at 360-417-3535 or at paige.dickerson@peninsuladailynews.com.
