Climate & Weather Information

(1943). Past Weather Olympia, WA [Photograph]. NOAA. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/past-weather/Olympia,%20WA

(1952). Past Weather Olympia, WA [Photograph]. NOAA. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/past-weather/Olympia,%20WA

(2024). Past Weather Olympia, WA [Photograph]. NOAA. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/past-weather/Olympia,%20WA

I pulled these three images from the NOAA's website: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/past-weather/Olympia,%20WA

These findings were for the Olympic Forest which is the closest recorded climate and weather information this website had to the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. The first photo shows location, the Olympic Forest is the light blue dot, and Nisqually is just to the right of it. The second photo is temperature data from 1952 and the third photo shows the climatologic data for May 2024 in that area. You'll see we had one day colder than normal coming in at 31 degrees F. Then two higher than average, hot days coming in at 88 degrees F. The data isn't out for June since we aren't' done for the month but I know we will have some record hot days again showing up. This correlates with our reservoirs of water supply being heavily impacted that flows down from our mountains such as Mount Rainer into the Nisqually River and Puget Sound. On April 16, 2024, Washington issued a statewide drought declaration. Certain areas were impacted more than others; i.e. Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett didn't have limitations. Unlike Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater (basically the Thurston County area where my place of study resides.

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(2021). Annual Weather Averages Near NIsqually [Photograph]. Timeanddate. https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@5804787/climate

Time and Date is where I found this average for the Nisqually, WA area from 1992-20221. Climate & Weather Averages in Nisqually, Washington, USA (timeanddate.com)

It provides the averages but not necessarily what dates belong to what temperatures. It did, however, provide a comprehensive overview of our hottest yearly months. So, if you want to know trends this website could be useful.

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(2024). Nisqually Weather [Photograph]. Worldweatheronline. https://www.worldweatheronline.com/nisqually-weather/washington/us.aspx?day=20&tp=1

I pulled this image from the World Weather Online website. You can go to the hourly tab and look up the weather updates before heading there that day.

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