Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:40 p.m. It almost sounds like it could be a Dr. Seuss poem. Troughs, ridges, waves and fronts. Ditches, mountains, surfboards, and stunts. Anyway, this will be the last of my “light duty” reviews/online lectures/blogs. The next section will be on gas laws and atmospheric thermodynamics. I’ll try and write them […]
Dreadfully Hot
Friday, May 10, 2013 1:42 A.M. Good morning everybody! The weather outside today is wonderful… much better than that dreadful weather we had Monday. “Dreadful?,” you might ask? Dreadful. At least for me. At some time during autumn 2012, I decided that I was no longer going to wear shorts (excepting formal occasions, like weddings […]
A Taste of Summer
Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:28 A.M. Long Beach, California – Taken April 3, 2013 using a Nikon D3000. Photo credit: Michael Trofimov. Hey everybody. Sorry for leaving you guys hanging for a couple days, midterms called. I think I had a false sense of this quarter being easy just because I have relatively more time […]
Sooooo close!!!
Monday, September 10, 2012 8:18 P.M. .01 inches. The smallest measurable amount of precipitation possible. And that is what ruined our dry streak of 48 days. I was actually thinking that Seattle might make it through this front without getting any rain. I was outside from 5 P.M. to 9 P.M. that night walking and […]
A Record Day at Sea-Tac
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 […]
High Pressure, Inversions, and Fog
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:59 P.M. Photo Credit: Kevin Ebi @ Living Wilderness The next week or beyond will be very boring and uneventful for meteorologists. The culprit? A HUGE ridge of high pressure off the Eastern Pacific. Take a look at the current atmospheric configuration from tonight’s 00z UW WRF-GFS run. Valid 10:00 pm […]
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What a Convergence Zone!
Monday, November 28, 2011 4:22 P.M. 05:31 pm PST Sun 27 Nov 2011 Sorry for the lack of posts over the Thanksgiving weekend, I was at home and the internet there is dreadfully slow… so slow that it is impractical to use. And forget about using blogger… Last night, we saw an incredibly well-defined convergence […]
Mostly Dry This Week, Wet Next Week, and Watermelons
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:57 P.M. Painting or time-lapse photo? Autumn officially begins 2:05 A.M. PDT Friday, September 23, but we’ll still have some nice weather for the next week or so. Looking at the models and National Weather Service discussions today, it seems as though we won’t be quite as sunny as we previously […]
Getting warmer next week!
Sunday, September 18, 2011 8:30 P.M. Summer is back! Hi everybody! I have some good news for you sun lovers. It looks like we have a warm week on tap. Remember that powerful wave I was talking about? As expected, the situation changed, and now it is heading north of us as a strong upper […]
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Pattern Change!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:38 P.M. Hi everybody! I slacked off on writing my weather blog this summer, but now I am back and I will resume a regular schedule. Thank you Nicholas Efthimiadis for the friendly reminder to stop being so lazy! In all honesty though, there wasn’t much to write home about this […]
