Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Good evening all! There’s a lot of buzz regarding Friday’s storm, so I thought I’d write a quick update clarifying some of the potential impacts of the storm and how the forecast has changed since yesterday. Models continue to show a very strong but weakening cyclone arriving from the west on Friday, bringing heavy rain […]
Remember all that talk about “Snowmageddon 2019” for Portland, with multiple heavy snows for Puget Sound and the Willamette Valley this week? Well, I hate to break it to you folks, but snowmageddon ain’t happenin’ this year, at least for NW Oregon and SW Washington. Parts of Western Washington still look to receive a healthy […]
So far this autumn, most of our precipitation has come in the form of scattered showers as opposed to stratiform rain. That isn’t to say that these showers haven’t been heavy at times… I was biking back home from work on Wednesday, September 12 this past month and got stuck in lock-step with a very […]
We all remember the “Ides of October” windstorm on October 15, 2016. The one that sprung out of Supertyphoon Songda and was feared to be a historic Pacific Northwest windstorm that would long be remembered. Models were originally showing a major windstorm that would pack 100+ mph gusts to the coast and 80 mph winds […]
