Floods in the Pacific Northwest

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Many people would be surprised to find out that the Pacific Northwest gets some of the biggest floods in the world. The reason why it is not common knowledge is because the places that flood are usually sparsely populated (like Snoqualmie or Concrete) or have no people at all (like many […]

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A Wet Weekend

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 I’ve been watching the weekend forecast with some interest, because it is looking more and more like we might get quite a bit of rain out of these storms. The maps above show the expected 24 hour rainfall from 5 P.M. Friday to 5 P.M. Saturday (top) and that time Saturday […]

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Wet and Warm

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:37 P.M. Hey everybody. Just a brief update now… I have to catch the bus soon… but we saw some pretty heavy rain amounts here as a Pineapple Express was stalled over the area. Amounts of an inch, higher south, were common in the Puget Sound area, while places in the […]

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Wet but Calm

November 25, 2009 5:35 P.M. Hey guys! Thanksgiving is less than a day away! I am soooooooo excited. Man… I haven’t tasted that creamy mash potatoes that melt in your mouth infused with a concoction of gravy and stuffing for over a year. And the turkey… I just took a look at it. It’s huge. […]

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Olympics about to be hammered… and more snow for the Cascades

November 18, 2009 3:47 P.M. Hello everybody! The rain from the approaching front has started falling around the sound, and, as I and every single news station around Seattle has been forecasting, this storm is going to be a wet one. Take a look at the precipitation graphic for the next 24 hours (ending at […]

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More Rain and Wind

November 17, 2009 9:08 P.M. I tend to either get a lot of things accomplished during the month of November or not very many things at all. The distinction between the two lies in one thing; weather. When it’s sunny outside, I just want to go outside and play, or I can’t concentrate because I’m […]

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Updated Pineapple Express Forecast + Snow to Surprisingly Low Elevations

November 14, 2009 9:54 A.M. In a previous post I mentioned the possibility for snow at some of the higher elevations. And guess what? We saw some! Look at this picture from North Bend by Kathy Hyland from KOMO4 News. North Bend is at an elevation of approximately 1,000 feet, and they saw sticking snow. […]

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Flooding Next Week?

November 10, 2009 9:53 P.M. November is a unique month in that the weather changes very rapidly throughout the course of it. The beginning of November is not notoriously stormy; yes, it is usually moderately wet, but there are stormier periods of the year. By the end of November, though, we have reached the stormiest […]

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Flooding Thursday into Friday

October 27, 2009 3:07 P.M. I hinted at flooding at the middle of this week in one of my posts last week. Then, that same storm transitioned from a minor windstorm to a major windstorm with heavy rain and flooding to practically nothing. Now, we are back with the idea of flooding, with some wind […]

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Flooding?

October 21, 2009 3:38 P.M. Looking at the weather models this afternoon, I noticed that we could see our first flooding event of the season next week if the situation shown by the models comes true. Let’s take a look at the furthest time frame the extended WRF-GFS model from the UW goes out. This […]

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