Courtesy of the National Weather Service:

Let me just state this clearly for the IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU'RE A MONSTER AND THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE HERE AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND YOU SHOULD MOVE SO FAR AWAY LIKE TO ANOTHER PLANET OR TO HELL WHICH IS WHERE YOU DESERVE TO LIVE commenters: I love our new weather. Could be a little balmier at night, but, really, perfect. I met two nice older couples visiting from Alabama the other day, and they loved our new weather too. "It's like air conditioning!" they said in their indisputably great Alabama accents.

Meanwhile, over in the Weather Service's Area Forecast Discussion, where apparently commas are in dangerously short supply, one meteorologist Felton is shouting about our strange summer:

CLIMATE NOTE...THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE SO FAR THIS YEAR AT SEATTLE-TACOMA AIRPORT IS 84 DEGREES ON JULY 6TH. THERE HAVE ONLY BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE WEATHER RECORDS STARTED AT SEATTLE-TACOMA AIRPORT IN 1945 WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO DAYS WITH HIGHS 85 DEGREES OR GREATER FOR THE YEAR. THESE TWO YEARS WERE 1954 AND 1957.

IN THE PREVIOUS 66 YEARS OF RECORDS AT THE AIRPORT THERE HAVE BEEN 657 DAYS WITH HIGHS 85 DEGREES OR HIGHER. AN AVERAGE OF 10 A YEAR. THE RECORD FOR THE MOST NUMBER OF DAYS WITH HIGHS 85 DEGREES PLUS AT SEA-TAC AIRPORT IN A YEAR IS 22 SET IN IN 1967. IN 2009 THERE WERE 21 DAYS. THE RECORD FOR A MONTH IS 16 DAYS SET IN AUGUST 1967. OUT OF THE 657 DAYS WITH HIGHS 85 DEGREES OR MORE ONLY 142 DAYS ( 21.6 PERCENT ) HAVE OCCURRED AFTER AUGUST 15TH. THE BULK OF THE 85 DEGREE PLUS DAYS OCCUR BETWEEN JULY 16TH AND AUGUST 15TH...312 DAYS ( 47.5 PERCENT ). FELTON