Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
After so many busted snow forecasts this month, I’ll admit that I’m a little gun-shy writing this post. But now that all global models show a snowstorm affecting at least some part of the Willamette Valley Sunday night into Monday, I can remain silent no longer. It now looks likely that heavy snow will fall […]
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 […]
Snow is in the forecast once again, and this time, Portland should get more than an inch. But before I dive into the snow potential this weekend, let me first touch on the surprise snow that Portland saw Monday night/Tuesday morning. I have to admit, I was pretty jealous when I saw the surprise snowmaggeddon […]
WOW! What was expected to be nothing more than a few scattered snow showers for Western Washington ended up being a bona-fide blizzard for the Northern Interior and a major lowland snowstorm for most locations north of Olympia. I was actually up in Seattle for the weekend doing some recording with my funk band Circular […]
By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard of the infamous “polar vortex.” While this term has been in the meteorological literature since 1853, it sprung into the vernacular during the 2013-2014 winter, which featured repeated arctic outbreaks that punished the Midwest and Northeast with record low temperatures. The first “Sharknado” movie was released in the […]
I’m back! My sincere apologies for being AWOL the last month. I have, however, been working hard on WeatherTogether’s weather models, though I’m having some connectivity issues uploading them to the site since I’ve reformatted my code to download more, but smaller grib files for my plots (grib files are the files with the raw […]
As expected, the innocuous, non-sticking snow that was so persistent yesterday quickly ballooned into a full-fledged, crippling lowland snow event last night as heavy band of snow pushed through the Portland metro area. I was out and about with some friends, and it was refreshing to see very few cars out on the roads, as […]
Another day, another poorly-forecast lowland snow event. Our low-pressure system was stronger and faster than modeled, and as a result, it generated more and heavier precipitation than expected. Yesterday’s runs only had a light rain/snow mix at the coast at this morning, but the heavier-than-expected precipitation helped lower snow levels down to the surface there, […]
We probably ended up with approximately an inch of snow at our place in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Northeast Portland from yesterday’s late-season snowstorm. Fellow WeatherTogether blogger Jeff Taylor ended up with 3.3 inches in Happy Valley at 600 feet, and the weather at Boring, OR (7 miles NW of Sandy, OR at 655′) was […]
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 […]
