Sand Point is aneighborhood inSeattle, Washington, United States, named after and consisting mostly of theSand Point peninsula that juts intoLake Washington, which is itself largely given over toMagnuson Park. Its southern boundary can be said to be N.E. 65th Street, beyond which areWindermere andHawthorne Hills; its northern boundary, N.E. 95th Street, beyond which isLake City. The western limit of the neighborhood, beyond which areView Ridge andWedgwood, is not fixed and can be said to be anywhere up the hill that extends west from Sand Point Way N.E. as far as 35th Avenue N.E. It is also the former home of Seattle Naval Air Station.
Sand Point Airfield was the endpoint of thefirst aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924. The historic flight helped convince Congress to develop Sand Point as anaval air station.[1]The station ceased operations in 1970.[2]
47°40′57.5″N122°15′16″W / 47.682639°N 122.25444°W /47.682639; -122.25444
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to theKöppen Climate Classification system, Sand Point has awarm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.[3]
| Climate data for Sand Point, Seattle | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 64 (18) | 66 (19) | 78 (26) | 83 (28) | 90 (32) | 96 (36) | 105 (41) | 98 (37) | 94 (34) | 87 (31) | 76 (24) | 62 (17) | 105 (41) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 47.4 (8.6) | 49.8 (9.9) | 53.9 (12.2) | 58.8 (14.9) | 65.3 (18.5) | 70.2 (21.2) | 76.5 (24.7) | 77.0 (25.0) | 71.3 (21.8) | 60.5 (15.8) | 51.9 (11.1) | 46.5 (8.1) | 60.8 (16.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 37.2 (2.9) | 37.0 (2.8) | 39.2 (4.0) | 42.8 (6.0) | 48.3 (9.1) | 52.7 (11.5) | 56.5 (13.6) | 57.1 (13.9) | 53.2 (11.8) | 46.7 (8.2) | 40.9 (4.9) | 37.0 (2.8) | 45.7 (7.6) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −4 (−20) | −1 (−18) | 7 (−14) | 25 (−4) | 33 (1) | 38 (3) | 43 (6) | 47 (8) | 34 (1) | 28 (−2) | 13 (−11) | 10 (−12) | −4 (−20) |
| Averageprecipitation inches (mm) | 5.14 (131) | 3.54 (90) | 3.86 (98) | 2.98 (76) | 2.16 (55) | 1.57 (40) | 0.78 (20) | 1.00 (25) | 1.74 (44) | 3.65 (93) | 5.85 (149) | 5.55 (141) | 37.82 (961) |
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