Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Back in November, the United States launched the GOES-R (now called the GOES-16), a revolutionary new satellite that would replace one of the current GOES satellites and usher in the next era in geostationary satellite technology. After several months of testing, we finally have our first test images from the satellite, and they are absolutely incredible. […]
Earlier this month, a revolutionary new weather weather satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral. The satellite, the GOES-R, is the first unit of the next series of four geostationary satellites (GOES-R, S, T, and U). The GOES-R will replace the current GOES (Geostationary Operational Satellite System) satellites (GOES 13, 14, and 15) and offers […]
Mt. Rainier has a habit of creating its own weather. At 14,411 feet tall, it is the second-tallest peak in the lower-48 states, and it is more prominent than K2, the second tallest peak in the WORLD. And when the light winds of summer give way to the powerful atmospheric rivers that define our storm […]
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, a paper was published in Nature announcing the discovery of Proxima Centauri b (also known as Proxima b), a new, potentially habitable planet orbiting our closest extrasolar star, Proxima Centauri. Not since Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet” status by some grumpy astronomers has there been so much buzz in […]
Good evening everybody! Today was beautiful! Most locations around Western Washington got into the upper 70s to lower 80s, and some areas east of the crest got much warmer! The Dalles was 96 degrees at 5 pm, but Buoy 46026 off the Columbia River was only 58. The Pacific Ocean sure cools things off! As […]
There’s a reason why very few people in the Pacific Northwest have air conditioning. For much of the summer, cool, marine air flows into Western Washington at night, keeping low temperatures in the 50s and preventing our residences from getting too hot. Of course, we have those periods in the summer when highs skyrocket into […]
Sunrise looking SE over Lake Washington from Seattle Sunset looking W over Clayoquot Sound from Tofino, B.C. In the Pacific Northwest, spectacular sunsets and sunrises are the norm. Some of the most amazing sunsets I have ever seen in my life have occurred while fishing off the coast of Vancouver Island, and some of the […]
Hello everybody, and welcome to weathertogether.net! Thank you so much for stopping by! I had wanted to develop a unique weather website for a while, but I was always intimidated by how good other websites looked, and I had no idea how to code. Still, I thought I’d give it a shot. Hopefully you can […]
It’s not often that I touch on non-science topics in this blog. But I have some thoughts about what’s been happening this political season, and I thought I’d share them here. I’m not a political scientist, and I admittedly don’t know as much about our government as I should. What I do know, however, is […]
Credit: NASA AQUA Satellite, ~2pm on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016 Yesterday was definitely a crazy day for weather! For much of the day, a pretty strong Puget Sound Convergence Zone set up shop in the Northern and Central Puget Sound regions, waxing and waning in intensity and shifting northward and southward as the […]
