Monday, May 13, 2013 12:18 P.M. I’m a huge fan of streaks, particularly of sports and weather streaks. Whether it’s Brett Favre’s streak of 321 consecutive games started or Seattle’s recent streak of 48 dry days this past summer. Speaking of that dry streak we had, I was super frustrated when I learned that 0.01 […]
Die Another Day
Saturday, April 13, 2013 5:04 P.M. From Wednesday, April 10, 2013: “We’ll have some rain coming in Friday afternoon, but I’ll bet my life on having a strong convergence zone somewhere in the area Saturday afternoon due to a cool, moist, onshore flow splitting around the Olympics and converging somewhere along Puget Sound. If I’m still […]
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A Week of Reciprocals
Friday, January 25, 2013 12:32 A.M. Well, after one of the most horrendously academic stretches ever, I’m back to having some free time. Most people would consider this break in work I am experiencing relatively small compared to their schedules, but I consider it massive in depth, breadth, and lack of activity. (Although I have […]
If You Can Hear Thunder, Does That Mean There is Lightning?
Friends say the darndest things… I don’t have the same “drive” to update my blog in the summer as I do in the winter. You’ve probably noticed. But folks, this last week has been pretty amazing. I can’t recall ever seeing a week with as much thunderstorms in the lowlands as this one. And while […]
Puget Sound Waterspouts
Sunday April 1, 2012 6:24 P.M. Waterspout over the Florida Keys. Retrieved from NOAA. When I was looking at the radar today, I definitely noticed some rather heavy rain showers. I have a house in Cultus Bay on South Whidbey Island, so I wasn’t too surprised when my neighbor called me to tell me the […]
“Unsettled” Weather
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:12 P.M. I was looking through the UW 12z extended WRF-GFS, and in one of the model frames, I saw an “unsettled” pattern. Meteorologists always talk about unsettled weather. But what does unsettled weather really mean? “Unsettled” weather does NOT refer to nice weather. Most of you knew that, but I […]
A Rather Cool and Unsettled Pattern
Friday, May 27, 2011 10:16 A.M. First off, as an addition to my last blog post, I thought I’d mention that Seattle gets tornadoes too, but they are very weak and are not part of supercell thunderstorms. Instead, they are called “cold-core” funnel clouds and come from localized areas of circulation within a thunderstorm. I […]
Tornadoes of 2011
We have, as of May 24th, seen 1,208 tornadoes this year, and there was a significant tornado outbreak yesterday and another smaller one today. That is absolutely incredible. The average for the entire year in the U.S. is 1274, a record we will surely break. At this rate, it is also highly likely that we […]
Quick Update
May 25, 2011 5:58 P.M. Hi everybody, I actually wrote a segment on tornadoes a while back, but it is on my Garfield High School account at school and I keep spacing on bringing it home, but I’ll be sure to get it tomorrow. Expect a long lengthy segment on tornadoes this season tomorrow. I […]
A Late-Night Update
Monday, March 7, 2011 2:41 A.M. Hey everybody, I can’t fall asleep, so what better thing to do than write a weather forecast? Sounds like a plan to me. We have been seeing cooler than normal weather for spring, which is actually very typical weather. What I have noticed is that spring weather is usually […]
