Tuesday, January 19, 2016 1:42 pm Average precipitation anomalies from El Niño events. Credit: NOAA For winter-weather lovers and skiers in the Pacific Northwest, an El Niño forecast sounds like a death sentence. Such a forecast conjures up visions of no major windstorms, hardly any lowland snow, below-average snow in the mountains, and a “death […]
Sunday Surprise!
Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:03 P.M. 01:24 am PDT Sun 07 Apr 2013 – Langley Hill Radar Last night, a surprisingly powerful storm rolled through the area. It’s a shame that the brunt of it came while most people were sleeping, as I’m always down to watch a good storm, but I can get a […]
Storm Update
Saturday, September 17, 2011 7:30 P.M. It looks as if the rain has spread in much earlier than I anticipated, so I am shifting rain totals higher amounts (up to a half inch in the lowlands) and am expecting the rain to stop and shift to showers Sunday morning. I guess the model I looked […]
Yes, I failed!!!
Monday, November 22, 2010 6:22 P.M. WOOHOO!!! I can’t believe this is happening. Winter storm warning and 2 inches of snow and counting! The models predicted zip. Cliff Mass predicted zip. Scott Sistek predicted pretty much nil. I gave you a 5% chance of snow. The National Weather Service was just ignoring the models and […]
Snow chances today and tomorrow
Sunday, November 21, 2010 12:28 P.M. Hey guys. Some of you saw some snow flurries this morning. Some of you did not. It depends on where you live and your elevation. I say some flurries but no accumulation. It was pretty though. Let’s discuss snow probabilities. I read Cliff Mass’ blog the other night and […]
So… What Happened?
November 22, 2009 10:59 A.M. Good morning everybody. Many of you guys weren’t up late at night like me, but if you were, I’m sure you’d be asking the same question… “where is the wind?” Well, the surface low, instead of taking a track towards the central Washington coast like the models showed, took a […]
Quick Update – Winds not looking as strong
November 16, 2009 8:41 P.M. I didn’t blurt it out yesterday (maybe I should have), but I was a little skeptical about the forecast when they called for a major windstorm in the Puget Sound region. First of all, the models were not locking on any one situation. Second, there looked to be another low […]