The Seattle metropolitan area - which includes King and Snohomish counties - showed a 3.2% unemployment rate, an increase from 2.6% in May 2022. In contrast, Yakima County, in south-central Washington, reported the highest unemployment rate among metropolitan areas at 4.2%, a drop from 5.6% in May 2022. The state posted a 3.3% unemployment rate in May, compared to 3.8% in May 2022, according to the figures released Tuesday.Īmong the state’s metropolitan areas, Walla Walla, which includes the southeast counties of Walla Walla and Columbia, reported the lowest unemployment rate at 2.9%, a drop from 4.2% in May 2022. The Washington State Department of Agriculture recently completed a second round of pesticide treatment in the affected areas this spring.ĭespite low unemployment and solid job growth in May throughout the state and most counties, new figures from the Washington Employment Security Department point to slowing economic activity. Salp also outlined several ways Yakima Valley residents can assist the agency in its capture and eradication effort, including reporting sightings online, installing traps on their property and allowing WSDA to spray on their property. Public engagement specialist Karla Salp wrote on the WSDA blog that the Department has set traps in areas near the high school in Grandview where the beetle was detected, in anticipation of thousands of additional beetles emerging there. Tens of thousands of beetles have been spotted in Sunnyside, Grandview and Wapato, and the state has started a yard debris quarantine program along with other measures in a multiyear effort to eradicate these beetles. The Japanese beetle’s presence in the Central Washington county has grown since then. It was first spotted in Sunnyside in 2020. The beetle, which is not established in Washington, can feed on 300 different plants, creating concern that it could negatively impact several of Washington’s top agricultural commodities, such as cherries and hops. The Washington State Department of Agriculture has spotted the first adult Japanese beetle of this year in Yakima County on Tuesday.
Wolf says rivers have been steadily rising since the warm temperatures began, and forecasters are watching for floods this week in nearby Idaho. Water rushing into rivers causes them to run faster and higher hiking or skiing in melting snow comes with a greater avalanche risk and lakes and streams are still cool enough to cause hypothermia. The National Weather Service issued some safety warnings for recreationists who spend time near water or melting snow. The average spring temperature for early May in Seattle is 63 to 64 degrees. The Service is also expecting temperatures in the 70s in the Seattle area on Tuesday and Wednesday. The National Weather Service temperature outlook for May, June and July suggests hotter-than-average temperatures across the state, including Western Washington.
But yes, this was still pretty warm for early in the season,” Wolf says. “The temperatures themselves weren’t abnormally hot by summer standards, where we often are in the 90s every day, or for several days.
The weather this past weekend was 15-20 degrees hotter than average. The Inland Northwest experienced a colder-than-normal April, with temperatures 2 to 6 degrees cooler than average. Spokane had seen its first day at or above 70 degrees only a few days earlier, April 26, when temperatures reached 71. It’s uncommon to see such high temperatures in Spokane after such a cool spring, Wolf says. The Spokane forecast surprised local forecasters like Jeremy Wolf of the National Weather Service in Spokane. (Records have been kept in the Spokane area since 1881.) On Sunday, Spokane tied its hottest April 30 on record: 82 degrees Fahrenheit at Spokane International Airport, tied with that date in 1981. Eastern Washington cities are historically hotter and drier than their Western peers, but this year, some Eastern cities have been getting hotter sooner.
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