Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
I’m writing from the front porch of an old fishing cabin in Sekiu, a small fishing village along the Strait of Juan de Fuca approximately 15 miles ESE of Cape Flattery. I’m being treated to an incredible – and unexpected – lightning show from some strong thunderstorms to our north over the Strait and Southern […]
Hi all, I’m back after a hiatus! We really haven’t had much to talk about and I’ve been busy spending lots of time with my family, so blogging and weather updates have fallen by the wayside. However, we’re expected to see what could be the strongest heat wave of 2020 this weekend, and such blistering […]
I’m committing one of the cardinal sins of weather blogging here: putting a high-impact, but uncertain, forecast in the title of a weather blog. I truly believe that this is an unethical practice, and that those who do it are trading a little part of their journalistic soul in exchange for a few more clicks. […]
What a wet weekend it has been! Many places across the I-5 corridor have picked up 0.25-0.75 inches of rain over the past 48 hours, but the Olympics and Coast Range have seen much more, with 1-2 inches common. Vancouver Island has been the wettest of all, with two stations on the Southern Vancouver Island […]
Howdy everybody! I’m back after a bit of a hiatus – with our boring weather of late and the first image ever taken of a black hole coming to light last month, I’ve been more focused on the cosmos than the clouds as of late. But with record-breaking temperatures on tap today through Saturday, I thought […]
Yes, you read that right. Unless something goes horribly awry (say, a massive brush fire right next to the weather station at Portland International Airport), next week will feature the hottest weather for Portland until at least mid-April 2019. After January 1, Portland’s record high doesn’t rise above 80 degrees until April 7, and at this point, […]
What a refreshing weekend! With a high of only 68 degrees, Sunday was Portland’s first sub-70 degree day since we hit 69 degrees on June 14. Our chill was brought to us via a deep upper-level trough arriving from the NW, and though we warmed up to 79 today as this trough passed east, Glacier […]
I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed our sudden switch to cooler weather on Saturday. I was in Seattle for a weekend of boat chores and band practice, but even more fun than pressure-washing our boat was having all my windows open Friday night and feeling a strong, westerly, marine breeze suck all […]
When most people think of the conditions needed for wildfires to grow, marine pushes aren’t the first thing to come to mind. Our famous summertime “natural air conditioning” brings a thick layer of morning clouds and keeps nighttime temperatures in 50s even in the heart of summer. But it also brings very windy conditions to […]
Sorry for such a hiatus on blogs pertaining to Pacific Northwest weather! I had a backlog of storm chasing blogs to finish up, but now that they have all finally been posted, it’s time to get back to talking about the weather in our neck of the woods. But before we focus on the Pacific […]
