Most Cloudy Starts In 9 Years!

By Rod Hill on 2010-08-06

With all the complaining about our cloudy starts this summer, I went to the record book and looked at July 1st - August 5th going back to the year 2000.  Here is what I found: This year 20 of the 36 days had morning clouds over Portland. That works out to be 55% of the time.  The average number of cloudy starts dating back to 2000 is 13 days.  So this year, we have had an extra week of cloudy mornings.  20 cloudy mornings is the most since 2001 had 22 days through the same period.  Here are the last five year:  

July - August 5th 2010:  20 days

                       2009:  13

                       2008:  12

                       2007:  14

                       2006:  13