Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
I had originally planned to work on this post last night during the Seahawks/49ers game, but there simply weren’t any boring parts where I could divert my attention from the game and to my computer. From start to finish, it was one of the best football games I’ve ever seen, period. I’m thankful that the Seahawks […]
This will be a quick post (spoiler alert: it’s not), as my work starts relatively early (4am!) and sleep is one of those things in life you don’t want to skimp on. But I felt obligated to at least give you a brief warning about the cold, windy weather on tap for tomorrow morning so […]
This will be a relatively brief post because it’s a sunny, warm autumn weekend in the Pacific Northwest, and I don’t want to spend too much time inside on such a rare occasion! Let’s start with some obligatory eye-candy from the GOES-17. Besides being a huge asset to the scientific community, the GOES-17 has been […]
Early autumn is usually pretty tranquil for the Pacific Northwest. The semi-permanent ridge of high pressure in the Eastern Pacific that keeps us so dry and mild through the summer is usually still robust enough to keep the storm track to our north, and any storms that do impact our area are generally pretty wimpy, […]
There’s a saying on the myriad of online Pacific Northwest weather Facebook groups and forums. When it looks like our snow chances are over for the winter, it’s time to ‘stick a Fork in it.’ Here are just a few common derivatives of the “Fork” analogy. It’s Fork time Fork it Don’t Fork it yet, […]
There is a chance of a dusting of snow across the Portland metro area tomorrow morning. Accumulations, if any, should remain under half an inch, and I doubt the morning commute will be affected, though you never know with Portland drivers. Still, it’s pretty insane that we are even talking about snow this late in […]
Well, it happened. A truly epic late-season snowstorm walloped the Southern Willamette Valley Sunday night and Monday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people and bringing over a foot of snow to Eugene and over twice that to Bend. Even Portland saw flurries for much of the day, with locations above 500 feet […]
After so many busted snow forecasts this month, I’ll admit that I’m a little gun-shy writing this post. But now that all global models show a snowstorm affecting at least some part of the Willamette Valley Sunday night into Monday, I can remain silent no longer. It now looks likely that heavy snow will fall […]
Remember all that talk about “Snowmageddon 2019” for Portland, with multiple heavy snows for Puget Sound and the Willamette Valley this week? Well, I hate to break it to you folks, but snowmageddon ain’t happenin’ this year, at least for NW Oregon and SW Washington. Parts of Western Washington still look to receive a healthy […]
Parts of NE Portland and Clark County have seen a few inches of snowfall so far tonight, but most of the Portland metro area below 500-1000 feet has been stuck with plain ol’ boring rain. However, downtown Portland and even the SW metro area will see a trace to two inches of snow by tomorrow […]
