Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Hi everybody! I’m back home in Seattle for the holidays, and while it’s great to see my family, dog, and friends, a very large part of me wishes I was still in Portland. While we’ve had a cool, cloudy, and relatively non-eventful weather day, the entire Willamette Valley is under a Winter Storm Warning for […]
It now appears as though Portland will experience a significant winter storm tomorrow, with gusty winds, a few inches of snow, and a changeover to sleet and freezing rain in the evening. Over Seattle, I believe we could see a trace to two inches of snow Thursday night before precipitation changes to rain early Friday morning, […]
Good evening everybody! I hope ya’ll are having a great Sunday thus far. I know I have. Why, you ask? It’s been snowing like crazy in the mountains. Stevens Pass reports 20 inches of new snow over the past 24 hours, while Snoqualmie pass reports 19. All of this has made for some very dicey […]
It has been 735 days since we saw snow in Sea-Tac Airport. Since our last snow, same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, Donald Trump became president, CO2 levels permanently passed the 400 ppm threshold, and Michael Phelps won five more gold medals. There is a chance our snow-less streak could finally come to an end this week. But […]
Monday, November 23, 2015 1:19 pm Well, I got pretty busy this past week and the weekend after putting off all my work to deal with that windstorm. It wasn’t quite as big as I thought it was going to be, but it was still pretty windy around the area with 45-70 mph gusts throughout […]
Monday, November 10, 2014 12:39 pm I think the above meme explains all you really need to know about the weather this coming week. But I shall oblige your curiosity and explain the meteorological situation that has led us to our first real chill of the winter. First, let’s learn what a “polar vortex” is. […]
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 12:14 a.m. I don’t know how many of you watched the Packers-49ers game on Sunday, but it looked absolutely frigid. The grass was brown. The surface temperature was 3 or 4 degrees. Green Bay actually got down to -18 that day, which is a record. That’ll freeze cheese. My cousin Colleen […]
Monday, October 15, 2012 10:42 A.M. Folks, let me just start out by saying that the Seahawks game yesterday was incredible. Especially since I would have lost all my hair had the Hawks come up short to the Patriots via a bet with a New Englander. Now, normally, I wouldn’t care about losing my hair […]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:39 A.M. Valid 04:00 pm PST Wed, 18 Jan 2012 – 36hr Fcst – UW 4km 12z WRF-GFS 24-hour snowfall As I was looking over the models and the spread in forecasts being made by different people and organizations, I was thinking about some changes that should be implemented in UWs […]
Thursday, December 1, 2011 12:42 P.M. Sound like you? Actually, all of us have been under a lot of pressure lately. While the weather outside seems mundane (and believe me, it is), Sea-Tac has seen the highest pressure readings since observations began there in 1948 over the past 12 hours. The below figures show the […]
