Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
This will just be a quickie, as I’m getting up early tomorrow to go skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows. But after getting scattered, non-sticking snow showers for much of the day, the Portland metro area is finally seeing a decent shot of lowland snow as a weak band of showers swings through the area! Here’s […]
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 […]
Sunday, December 16, 2012 2:40 P.M. Hi everybody! It’s great to be back! I survived finals, although I sustained some serious injuries during the battle. Oh well, I’ll recover from them soon enough. We’ve got a lot to talk about. First off, we have a fairly large storm swinging through our area tonight. Take a […]
Saturday, September 24, 2011 9:47 A.M. This will be quick… I have people to meet and places to go! UW game at 12:30 by the way, go Huskies! Anyway, today will be warm and humid* as we have that warm southerly flow. We could see those thunderstorms in the Cascades, although it looks like we […]
October 27, 2010 1:59 P.M. Look at that storm!!! Now, many of you may have heard about the huge storm in the Midwest. There has been a lot of talk about it being the strongest extratropical storm on record on the contiguous 48 states. The media generally says it is. However, many of the local […]
