Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
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, […]
Tonight’s model runs are in, and every model has shifted the plume of moisture I was talking about in last night’s blog slightly further north. Now, it appears as though Portland will be too warm for snow, while Seattle will see several inches of extremely wet, gloppy snow that may have trouble sticking at the […]
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 1:41 am Yesterday, I wrote about the Eastern third of the country and how much of that region was profoundly affected by a major blizzard that halted over 13,000 flights and caused 3 billion dollars in damage. Now, the weather action has shifted back to our neck of the woods, and […]
Friday, February 21, 2014 1:19 p.m. Heads or tails? With the European model saying essentially no snow, the NAM (one American model) giving snow to the foothills and places to the far north, and the GFS (the premier American model) giving 3-8 inches of snow everywhere, you might as well flip a coin at this […]
Monday, January 7, 2013 10:13 A.M. It’s refreshing to finally have another decent storm roll through the area. As I have stated many times on this blog, I vehemently dislike boring winter weather. Today’s the first day of winter quarter at the UW, and weather-wise, it’s off to a stellar start. We’ll see about otherwise… […]
February 28, 2012 12:03 P.M. Hi everybody! Once again, I’m sorry for the sporadic forecasts, I have a pretty heavy class load this quarter. But I do have about 15 minutes until my next class, so I can write a short blog post here to keep you up to date on the current weather situation. […]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:50 A.M. Hello everybody! It snowed last night and most places in Washington are still seeing snow right now! The models this morning actually came more in line with what I was predicting last night and are now predicting more snow for the Puget Sound lowlands. A couple more inches will […]
Monday, October 31, 2011 11:42 P.M. The East Coast commonly gets these strong storms called Nor’Easters, which are named such because they skirt along the northeast coast from a southwesterly direction, traveling to the northeast as they strengthen. This particular Nor’Easter was unique – it brought heavy snow to the Northeast before Halloween! New York […]
Tuesday February 22, 2011 11:46 P.M. Yay! I’m back on this blog. In retrospect I should have put an update that I just needed to take a break from it to work on some academic and college stuff and get all that stuff up and running, but now I am on mid-winter break. And of […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:05 P.M. Hey everybody! I am now a second semester senior, so I’m sure you know what that means. It means, of course, that I will be writing a lot more weather forecasts because I now have some additional time to do so! I want to thank everybody who has been […]
