Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Greenbank, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Port Townsend, WA, 9 miles west of Greenbank at 100 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 73°F and low of 54°F; December is the coolest, at 45°F and 38°F. December is the wettest at 2.6 inches of precipitation on average and August the driest at 0.5 inches; the year adds up to 19.0 inches over 60 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 1 days a year. Lows fall below freezing on about 14 nights a year. Snowfall averages 0.6 inches a year, most of it in December. That 19.0 inches is more than at 33 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (38%). Langley, 7 miles southeast, has its own station (Everett Snohomish Airport, WA): 33.4 inches a year, 14.4 more than here, and the same August average high, 73°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Townsend, WA, 9 miles west, averaged 53°F in August and 46°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Port Townsend tide gauge, 9 miles from Greenbank, has risen 0.72 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 34 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Greenbank's ZIP code 98253 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1997, and were paid $290,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 7% 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, 15 have fewer than Greenbank.