Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Monday, October 5, 2015 2:49 pm The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to flooding. I believe that Washington has had the most federal disaster declarations of any state, which may be surprise you due to our seemingly-mundane weather. But we get these massive floods from time to time, and we also have a tendency to get […]
Friday, November 21, 2014 9:58 pm We have a bad habit of making a big deal out of the white stuff in Seattle, and it seems to get worse with each passing ‘blizzard.’ It’s all too predictable; the chains on buses strike sparks with the ground as the snow that was seemingly ‘promised’ by the […]
Monday, December 19, 2011 3:55 P.M. Santa Fe – December 19, 2011 – Photo Credit: AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Dean Hanson I’ve been trying to find creative things to write about on this blog, but I haven’t had the creativity because of finals week, and I haven’t found anything interesting about the weather either. The […]
Monday, October 31, 2011 11:42 P.M. The East Coast commonly gets these strong storms called Nor’Easters, which are named such because they skirt along the northeast coast from a southwesterly direction, traveling to the northeast as they strengthen. This particular Nor’Easter was unique – it brought heavy snow to the Northeast before Halloween! New York […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 6:24 P.M. While the eastern half of the country is getting clobbered this winter, we have actually had a pretty tranquil and quiet winter, especially for a La Nina year. Sure, we’ve had some close calls (models were calling for 3 feet of snow in Seattle a couple weeks ago) but […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:05 P.M. Hey everybody! I am now a second semester senior, so I’m sure you know what that means. It means, of course, that I will be writing a lot more weather forecasts because I now have some additional time to do so! I want to thank everybody who has been […]
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 […]
