Favorite Posts By Year

Here are some of my favorite blog posts over the last few years!

2017

September

• Hurricane Irma – History, Current Status, and Future Impacts
• Worst is Over for Eagle Creek Fire, But Incoming Thunderstorms Could Start New Blazes

August

• Harvey: Worst-Case Scenario Comes to Fruition
• Totality 2017: A Life-Changing Experience

June

• How to read Surface Station Models
• The Different Types of Fog

May

• Day 6: A Stunning Shelf Cloud and Our First Tornado
• Reviewing Our Thursday Thunderstorms

March

• Does The Equinox have Equal Lengths of Day and Night?
• Trump Administration Proposes Massive Cuts to NOAA
• March: A Surprisingly Snowy Month For The Mountains

February

• Could El Nino Return This Summer?

January

• Historical Snowstorm Now Occurring In Portland
• The Model Giveth, The Model Taketh Away

2016

December

• Thursday Looking a Little Snowy for Some, Downright Nasty For Others

November

• NOAA Launches the GOES-R Satellite

October

• Tornadoes, Flooding, and Wind, Oh My!
• How To Stay Safe During Pacific Northwest Windstorms

September

• U.S. and China Pledge to Ratify Paris Climate Agreement

August

• Is There Life on Proxima Centuari b?

July

• Unseasonably Cool

June

• The Marine Pushes Of Summer
• Amazing Sunrises and Sunsets To Start The Week
• My Big Halibut

May

• A New Climate Change Movement

April

• The Demise of The West Antarctic Ice Sheet

March

• Sneezing Up A Storm
• Sunday Windstorm Review

February

• Everything You Need To Know About Gravitational Waves
• Global Warming: Too Little Action, Too Much Reaction

January

• A Review of the Massive Storm Back East

2015

November

• Why Did Yemen And Socotra Just Get Hit By Consecutive Tropical Cyclones?

October

• What Was The 1997-1998 El Nino Like?

September

• A Megathrust Earthquake and Tsunami Off Chile!
• The Most Intense Summer Storm On Record

June

• The Nepal Earthquake Part 2: Earthquake Types

May

• The Nepal Earthquake Part 1: Plate Tectonics

April

• The Future of The Earth

March

• Thermonuclear Energy

2014

December

• A Review of the Windstorm

November

• Crazy Snow In Buffalo
• A Historic Storm

September

• Autumn Has Arrived

July

• Relief In Site for Firefighters

May

• Global Warming – The Three Societies

March

• The Oso, Washington Landslide

February

• Snow Updates for 2/8/2014

January

• Cascade Concrete
• Don’t Mess With the Polar Vortex – The Midwest Arctic Outbreak and Climate Change

2013

December

• Snow on Friday and Another LAWES Scale Revision
• ATMOS 301 (FINAL) -Radiation and Climate
• ATMOS 301 (FINAL) – Numerical Weather Prediction
• ATMOS 301 (Final) – The Dynamics of Atmospheric Wind Flows
• ATMOS 301 (Final) – Deep Convection and Thunderstorms

November

• The Landfall of Super Typhoon Haiyan
• ATMOS 301: Thermodynamics of Moist Air
• ATMOS 301: Dry Adiabatic Processes
• ATMOS 301: The First Law of Thermodynamics
• ATMOS 301: The Hydrostatic Equation

October

• ATMOS 301: Equation of State
• ATMOS 301: Troughs, Ridges, Waves, and Fronts
• ATMOS 301: Surface Station Models
• ATMOS 301: Composition and Fundamental Physics

September

• Biblical Rainfall Amounts in Colorado
• First Big Storm of the Season

August

• The Graceful Apocalypse: Part 2 – Synopsis, Repercussions, and Explanations
• The Graceful Apocalypse: Part 1 – Basic Thunderstorm Knowledge
• Perseids Meteor Shower
• Marine Pushes and Visibility

July

• Hawaii Day 4 (Micronesia Day 21): Volcano National Park
• Hawaii Day 3 (Micronesia Day 20): Sea to Sky

June

• Micronesia: Day 5 – Nan Madol Ruins
• Micronesia: Day 3 (Mangroves)

May

• Digging for Ducks

April

• Working Together to Forecast the Weather Better

March

• Where’s Credible Climate Information? 

2012

November

• The Misrepresentation of Science in the Public Domain

October

• A Record-Breaking Storm (Hurricane Sandy)
• Terrible Tempest the Twelfth

September

• A Record Low for Arctic Sea Ice
• El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – For Dummies

April

• Accuweather’s 25-Day Forecast

January

• Ice Storm Warning
• Small Changes, Big Effects

2011

December

• Stonehenge
• A Record Day at Sea-Tac

November

• A Response to the Deniers of Anthropogenic Global Warming

October

• Mt. Rainier Weather
• Different Types of Fog
• Autumn in the Pacific Northwest
• The Vostok, Antarctica Ice Cores

September

• Green Flash
• Tropical vs. Extratropical Cyclones

August

• Mirages!

May

• Tornadoes of 2011

March

• Nuclear Energy

January

• Our Dilemma

2010

November

• Yes, I Failed!

October

• Putting That Big Midwest Storm in Perspective

April

• Storm on the Way

January

• Why Are We Warmer and Drier than Normal During El Nino Years?

2009

December

• Here Comes the Cold (dadadada) + What’s Up With Probcast?

November

• Olympics About To Be Hammered… and More Snow for the Cascades
• Woohoo!

October

• First Post

Facebook Posts

August

• August 2009

July

• July 2009

June

• June 2009

May

• February-May 2009 (Sporadic Forecasts)

January

• January 2009

2008

December

• December 2008 (Lots of Snow Discussions!)

October

• October 2008

September

• September 2008

May

• May 2008

April

• April 2008
• Memorable Weather Experiences