Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Lynden, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Clearbrook, WA, 6 miles east of Lynden at 64 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 76°F and low of 51°F; December is the coolest, at 43°F and 32°F. November is the wettest at 7.1 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 1.5 inches; the year adds up to 50.0 inches over 110 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 2 days a year, almost all from July. Lows fall below freezing on about 58 nights a year. Snowfall averages 10.8 inches a year, most of it in January. That 50.0 inches is more than at 61 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (71%). Custer, 8 miles west, has its own station (Blaine, WA): 41.8 inches a year, 8.2 less than here, and a July average high of 73°F against 76°F.

Sea level at the Cherry Point tide gauge, 15 miles from Lynden, has fallen 0.02 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1973 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 0.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 17 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Lynden's ZIP code 98264 have filed 49 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $1.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2021, with 11. 33% 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, 61 have fewer than Lynden.