Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
It now appears as though Portland will experience a significant winter storm tomorrow, with gusty winds, a few inches of snow, and a changeover to sleet and freezing rain in the evening. Over Seattle, I believe we could see a trace to two inches of snow Thursday night before precipitation changes to rain early Friday morning, […]
There’s a reason why very few people in the Pacific Northwest have air conditioning. For much of the summer, cool, marine air flows into Western Washington at night, keeping low temperatures in the 50s and preventing our residences from getting too hot. Of course, we have those periods in the summer when highs skyrocket into […]
Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:10 pm Image taken at approximately 12:00 pm 1/28/2016 Credit: NASA Terra MODIS Satellite Apart from an extremely rainy morning for many folks, today ended up being a pretty nice day. Our atmospheric river that had been giving us so much rain, wind, and warm temperatures finally sagged to our south […]
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 2:14 pm I’ve been wondering when we’d get a “zone to end all zones,” and this is the best one since the morning of December 18, 2008. I don’t think anything can top that one… I got 4-6 inches of snow and school was canceled. Our house also almost got struck […]
Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:03 p.m. We “only” reached 70 degrees today. At 6 degrees below average for a high temperature, it’s fairly cool, but not extraordinarily so. The last time we didn’t hit 70 was on July 24th, meaning it’s been nearly a month of consecutive 70 degree-or-higher days, with some days much higher […]
Saturday, November 23, 2013 5:43 pm This picture was taken at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last November by YouNews contributer Jilma V.Diaz-Demangue and was retrieved with permission from KOMO’s website. Isn’t that a beautiful picture above? It looks to be some sort of Japanese Maple leaf. I have one of those trees in my backyard, and […]
Friday, August 9, 2013 3:20 P.M. In many parts of the country, air conditioning is necessary during the summer months. Even in places with high and low temperatures similar to us (usually places that are close to the Canadian border, such as International Falls, Minnesota and Portland, Maine) generally have higher relative humidities. And Chicago? […]
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:30 P.M. I don’t own an umbrella. I don’t own rain boots.The only thing that I need to protect me from the elements is my skin. It’s worked out pretty well so far. But today, when I walked out of a physics lab, I saw looked out the window and saw […]
Friday, October 19, 2012 11:03 A.M. Happy Friday everyone!!! Everybody talks about the Sequim rain shadow is the driest place in Western Washington, and for good reason. It is. They only get around 16 inches of rain each year, as they are northeast of the Olympics, and since the winter flow is generally from the […]
Sunday April 1, 2012 6:24 P.M. Waterspout over the Florida Keys. Retrieved from NOAA. When I was looking at the radar today, I definitely noticed some rather heavy rain showers. I have a house in Cultus Bay on South Whidbey Island, so I wasn’t too surprised when my neighbor called me to tell me the […]
