Weather Models Are Finally Up!

FINALLY, after several days of coding and several months of troubleshooting, WeatherTogether has its own model charts! Before I go any further, I have to thank Quinn Abrahams-Vaughn for writing some html and javascript pages to get me started with model visualization and Derek Hodges for his guidance on shell scripting and crontabs to automatically […]

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More Thunderstorms Tonight

Saturday, August 10, 2013 3:49 P.M. Good afternoon everybody! Hopefully most of you experienced that absolutely incredible lightning show last night. Thankfully, if you missed it, we’ve got another one stepping up to the plate. First off, let’s look at the radar. Thunderstorms are currently firing up across the area, with some particularly strong ones […]

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Progress in Numerical Weather Prediction

Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:38 P.M. Cliff Mass – Retrieved from UW Atmospheric Sciences Website Many of you are familiar with Cliff Mass, an atmospheric sciences professor at the UW who has a weather blog (cliffmass.blogspot.com) and a weekly weather discussion slot on KPLU. He is very active in the public scope and gives many […]

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Watching the Satellite

Monday, December 3, 2012 10:36 A.M. 10:00 am PST Mon 03 Dec 2012 – UW West Coast 4km water vapor satellite Good morning everybody, I hope you are all having a nice first week of December. It was pretty rainy last night, but we’ll be heading into some calmer weather soon. However, we’ve got a […]

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I Am Actually Looking At Weather Models

Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:52 P.M. I’m a weather fanatic, and most of you know that. But during the last 80 days, I’ve been out of touch with my meteorological side. Back in September, if you asked me what the weather was going to be a week from now, I would have no clue. All […]

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Inconsistencies in the Models

Monday, January 9, 2011 11:06 A.M. As I sit in the Ocean Sciences building waiting for my “Climatic Extremes” class, I can’t help but wish for more exciting weather around here. Thankfully, some of the models are giving me some hope that we could see change, but other models give us weather that is even […]

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Tropical Moisture – A Weather Model’s Worst Enemy

September 21, 2010 5:43 P.M. Hey guys, I have some breaking news! Ok, just kidding, it’s not really breaking news. The weather models are acting up (I wish they weren’t, THAT would be breaking news!). Tropical systems are being entrained in the westerly flow. This doesn’t necessarily mean we will have a big storm (although […]

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