Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Good news, winter weather lovers. Snow is returning to the Cascades, and it’s doing so in a big way. Snow will start impacting the Olympics and Coast Mountains of British Columbia early Tuesday morning as a wet cold front swings through the area. Snow levels will hover around 3-4000 feet, but all the passes – […]
After the warmest first half of November on record, snow has finally reached the Cascade passes. An upper-level trough directed cool, unstable air into our region last night, giving us showers (particularly in the mountains) and a Puget Sound Convergence Zone that enhanced snowfall around Stevens Pass. Over the past 24 hours, Snoqualmie Pass has […]
It’s been 211 days since we last saw snow at Snoqualmie Pass. And while we are not going to see snow there today or tomorrow, forecast models are finally showing accumulating snow down to pass level in the extended. And I could not be more happy! We’ve seen incredibly warm temperatures recently due to a […]
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 10:15 pm Hey everybody. Sorry for being absent for over a week. It’s been a crazy past eight days here in Charlie-town, and when you add that to the extraordinarily boring weather we’ve had, you nearly almost always end up with a blog drought. Thankfully, the drought ends now, as the […]
Monday, February 23, 2015 11:50 p.m. When I was walking home from school today, I stopped at a viewpoint right above my house to take a quick glance at the Cascades, curious to see how white they where. I knew how atrocious this winter had been in the snow department, so I wasn’t very optimistic, […]
Sunday, December 23, 2012 10:46 P.M. First off, let me apologize for not being more punctual when it comes to posting on this blog. I had three pretty rough finals in two days, and the evening after my last final, I had a seizure (which may have been related to the stress… who knows), so […]
Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:33 A.M. I’ve yet to go skiing this year (I know, it’s pretty bad), but I’m honestly going to try to make an effort to go up this weekend. We are seeing some incredible amounts of snowfall in the mountains for late March. In fact, as of March 25, we were […]
February 28, 2012 12:03 P.M. Hi everybody! Once again, I’m sorry for the sporadic forecasts, I have a pretty heavy class load this quarter. But I do have about 15 minutes until my next class, so I can write a short blog post here to keep you up to date on the current weather situation. […]
Thursday, January 19, 5:20 P.M. Hi everybody, this is just a quick update… the snow has stuck around longer than forecast, and freezing rain has mainly impacted areas south of Seattle, sparing the Seattle area itself. The snow has been going on all day here, and I’d say UW got about 2 inches out of […]
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 […]
