Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Cathlamet, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Clatskanie, OR, 10 miles southeast of Cathlamet at 22 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 76°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 46°F and 33°F. December is the wettest at 9.4 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.6 inches; the year adds up to 54.7 inches over 115 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 70 nights a year. Snowfall averages 2.3 inches a year, most of it in December. That 54.7 inches is more than at 65 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (76%). Longview, 18 miles east, has its own station (Longview, WA): 48.0 inches a year, 6.7 less than here, and an August average high of 80°F against 76°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Longview, WA, 20 miles east, averaged 72°F in August and 42°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Astoria tide gauge, 20 miles from Cathlamet, has fallen 0.06 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1925 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 0.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 16 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Cathlamet's ZIP code 98612 have filed 27 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1996, and were paid $398,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 37% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Washington cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 33 have fewer than Cathlamet.