Wunderground.com-5/16/13, Christopher Burt
Map of U.S. and location of Quillayute (also known as La Push). The Airport servicing La Push is called the Quillayute Airport and where the weather observations are made. The village is set on a small peninsula that juts out into the frigid Pacific Ocean where the SST would be around 48° this time of year. One can imagine how unusual it is for this site to be one of the hottest in the country on any given day. Photo from AirPhotoNA.com
One of the hottest places in the country yesterday (May 5th) was Quillayute (La Push), Washington located near the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington where a record 88° was reported. This smashed their previous daily record by 15° (73° in 1994) and made it warmer than even Death Valley, California where it was 87° on Sunday.
The coast of northwestern Washington is one of the coolest summer locations in the U.S. with Quillayute being one of the few places in the contiguous U.S. to have never recorded 100° (their all-time high of 99° was set on August 9, 1981). At this time of the year the normal daily maximum temperature here should be just 58°.
Link: Wunderground.com
