Seattle makes ‘draft day’ trade with Los Angeles for… weekend sunshine?!?
Scott Sistek 
ECMWF 500 mb heights anomaly chart showing a low pressure are heading into Southern California this weekend.
This just in to Emerald City Weather Blog HQ. Sources tell me Seattle and Los Angeles have completed a trade here on NFL Draft night:
Seattle gets:
- Sunshine for this weekend
- Pleasantly warm temperatures
Los Angeles gets:
- Clouds to plug in gaps in its traditionally poor sky coverage
- Rain at times on Saturday with options for showers to linger into Sunday
- Three options to trade rain back to Seattle for sunshine during the 2028 Summer Olympics
ECWB Instant Trade Grades:
Seattle sun fans: A+. Rain fans: C (at least it’s not hot)
Los Angeles: D-, though their weather GM insists this is a trade for the future.
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Seriously though, this week’s forecast is for the Seattle sun fans.
And while there is no way to really quantify it, you could probably declare this is about to be the most pleasant week of weather in Seattle history. And if nothing else, any other arguments anyone might present as other weeks to claim the throne, you could reasonably defend this week as a tie.
We’ve hit the sweet spot balance between hot and cool with highs generally in the mid-upper 60s for the next seven days.
There are some very minor bobbles out there early next week that might knock us down into the low 60s for highs; there may be some extra clouds and a few mountain showers on Sunday and Monday as a distant weak system sends its outer fringes our way; and then there are a couple days later in the period we might nudge to 70.
Splitting hairs.
Walk your dogs any time of the day. Go for that hike. Tend that garden. Mow that lawn… wait, scratch that last one, who wants to spend precious outside time on that?
You can even… GASP!… Wash. Your. Car. And be safe from the “but it’ll make it rain the next day” jinx. (Besides if it did, you can now safely blame me with that last sentence on the Mother Nature Jinx Scale.)
Meanwhile, a weak, but more organized low pressure center will meander into Southern California Saturday, bringing clouds and showers along with cool temperatures. Angelenos are going to wake up and suddenly have a distinct but temporary urge for coffee, flannel and an aversion to jaywalk. An eerie silence will befall the land by lack of horn honking on the freeways, which will become mysteriously gridlocked because…oh wait, that happens anyway.
But don’t fret about our southern neighbors stealing our proverbial thunder for too long; their rain will scoot outta there Sunday and they’ll resume their horn-honking, flip-flop and sunglasses avocado-toast-eating lifestyle soon enough….
For now…
If Super El Niño becomes a thing this winter with its more traditional southerly rain track, Seattle and Los Angeles may find themselves as more frequent weather trading partners.
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