Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
The next two weeks look unseasonably calm. We’ll see a moderate system swing through on Friday, but other than that, our weather looks warmer and drier-than-average for the next 10 days as a strong, broad ridge of high pressure builds across the Western US. Given the boring weather ahead, I thought I’d do a quick […]
By now, many of us have heard of the term “bomb cyclone.” Just like “polar vortex,” “bomb cyclone”/”bombogenesis”/”meteorological bomb” (and many other bomb-related derivatives) has actually been in the meteorological literature for decades, first entering the vernacular in the Bergen School in the 40s and 50s to describe the explosively-developing cyclones over the North Atlantic. […]
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, […]
WOW! What was expected to be nothing more than a few scattered snow showers for Western Washington ended up being a bona-fide blizzard for the Northern Interior and a major lowland snowstorm for most locations north of Olympia. I was actually up in Seattle for the weekend doing some recording with my funk band Circular […]
Monday, January 25, 2016 1:24 pm A car submerged in snow. Photo taken 23 January 2016. Credit: Wikimedia User Aude Last week in Seattle was pretty stormy, capped off by a very wet Thursday storm that set daily rainfall records throughout Western Washington and major avalanche danger on the Cascades. However, this storm was just […]
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:50 am I think of my commitment to school like a sinusoidal function – specifically, a sine wave shifted 90 degrees to the right so that it becomes a cosine wave. I tend to start off school hot. I’m well rested from summer, and I can’t wait to get back into […]
Sunday, November 9, 2014 5:04 pm Every once in a while, a storm so unbelievably massive, so breathtakingly powerful, and so horrendously destructive appears in the models that you literally go into cardiac arrest. This is one of those storms. I’ve seen many crazy, crazy storms in the models. I’ve seen gigantic 930 hPa “bombs” […]
Monday, October 29, 2012 3:06 P.M. 19 years old, and Spongebob is still my favorite cartoon. It seems like everywhere I go, people are talking about Hurricane Sandy. Most of what I’m seeing are Facebook posts from people on the West Coast praying for the health and safety of those affected by this massive storm. […]
Monday, December 19, 2011 3:55 P.M. Santa Fe – December 19, 2011 – Photo Credit: AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Dean Hanson I’ve been trying to find creative things to write about on this blog, but I haven’t had the creativity because of finals week, and I haven’t found anything interesting about the weather either. The […]
Sunday, November 6, 2011 7:13 P.M. Seattle, November 22, 2010 Now, I don’t want people to get too excited, but take a look at what the NWS said at the end of their forecast discussion this afternoon. LONG TERM… CONFIDENCE IN THIS PERIOD REMAINED SOMEWHAT LOW DUE TO DIFFERENCES IN THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS. IT […]
