Wednesday, January 27, 2016 1:41 am Yesterday, I wrote about the Eastern third of the country and how much of that region was profoundly affected by a major blizzard that halted over 13,000 flights and caused 3 billion dollars in damage. Now, the weather action has shifted back to our neck of the woods, and […]
Tons Of Rain!
Thursday, January 21, 2016 5:45 p.m. It’s been pretty wet today. I could explain it with satellite imagery, models, maps, and all that jazz (and I will), but all you really needed to do was to go outside and look at the size of the puddles, both on the road and off it. There was […]
Torrential Rain In the Olympics, Drizzle In Everett, And Inadequate Rainshadow Communication
Friday, November 13, 2015 12:57 pm Credit: PRISM Group and Oregon Climate Service. Retrieved from Reddit (yup!) One of the most fascinating things about Pacific Northwest weather is how much our local terrain influences our climate. Just in the state of Washington, we have two mountain ranges that get gobs of snow, a massive ocean off our […]
The Moisture Train Of Doom
Thursday, November 12, 2015 9:53 am Everybody talks about atmospheric rivers. Atmospheric river here, atmospheric river there. And while the “atmospheric river” term is certainly useful and is used in scientific literature, it also comes across as a bit of a euphemism. It sounds so nice and tranquil, like a stream flowing through the heavens, […]
The First Flooding of The Season!
Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:59 pm Record flooding in Mt. Rainer National Park, November 2006. Credit: National Park Service For some reason, the weather always seems to get dramatically stormier as soon as we switch from October into November. The weather could be fine for trick-or-treating, and then whammo! November rolls around, and there are more fallen […]
Historic Flooding in South Carolina
Monday, October 5, 2015 2:49 pm The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to flooding. I believe that Washington has had the most federal disaster declarations of any state, which may be surprise you due to our seemingly-mundane weather. But we get these massive floods from time to time, and we also have a tendency to get […]
Heavy Rains Friday
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:18 pm Hello everybody! I have a day off from my counselor duties at Hidden Valley Camp so I thought I’d go ahead and write a blog about the upcoming rains later this week. We could get dumped on Friday, but there’s still a lot of uncertainty. The weather down here […]
A Good Soaking
Monday, March 3, 2014 9:57 p.m. I don’t want to say winter is over. Heck, Snoqualmie pass was closed from North Bend to Ellensburg today, which I believe is a 70 mile stretch or so. Bellingham got clobbered with snow twice in the past two weeks. But, we face an unfortunate reality – it is […]
The Storm Is Upon Us
Friday, January 10, 2014 7:35 p.m. It’s been eons.Ok, maybe we still have the same continents now as we did when it last rained, but it’s been at least a month since we saw ourselves a good, old-fashioned Pacific Northwest extratropical cyclone. This baby’s gonna bring our “trifecta” of rain, wind, and mountain snow. We may even end up […]
Umbrella Treason
Monday, November 18, 2013 12:47 p.m. Replace “Capt. John Brown” with “Umbrella,” and you’re set. It’s not like the umbrellas have any choice. Seattlites are not supposed to have umbrellas, let alone use them. Hoodies, ponchos, rainboots, and the like are tolerable, but umbrellas are unofficially forbidden. So imagine my surprise when I walked outside my […]
