Still seems like summer
A man walks his dog near City Beach in Coeur d'Alene on Monday evening.
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COEUR d'ALENE — Usually by late September, it's cold, cloudy and all signs of summer have been washed away by rain in Coeur d'Alene.
Not so this year.
Tuesday's 90 degrees set an all-time high for Sept. 27, breaking the previous high of 89 set in 1967.
"It's very rare to have 90 degrees this late in the season," said Coeur d'Alene Climatologist Cliff Harris.
For all of August and September, it has rained a mere .30 of an inch, well below the normal of 2.93 inches.
A high-pressure ridge stuck over North Idaho is pulling up the heat from California.
A few drops might fall tonight and Thursday, but that's a big maybe.
"That's the only rain I see. We are just bone dry," Harris said. "We're lucky we haven't had a major fire."
He is sticking to his prediction that current conditions won't change to the more customary cold and wet until about Oct. 10, or perhaps not until late October.