Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
New model runs are coming in as we speak, and they show a similar scenario for late New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day. Next week still looks like the coldest in several years, and there is low confidence in a moderate-to-major snowstorm on Friday, with model solutions agreeing on bringing a system into the area while […]
I must admit, it’s a little difficult coming up with varying titles for your blogs when you are simply blogging about the same thing. It’s not as difficult as forecasting snow in Seattle, but it’s definitely up there. Models are still adamant with a major pattern change beginning Saturday evening as a deep upper-level-low drops […]
Well, another day has passed, and my confidence is building that we will see a major and prolonged arctic outbreak for the first half of January. We’ve got a lot to talk about, so let’s get right to it. In my blog post last night, I talked about a massive ridge of high pressure centered […]
After two weeks of subfreezing temperatures, snowfall, and even sleet and freezing rain for folks living in Bellingham and near the Columbia River Gorge, a major pattern change towards warmer and wetter weather is in store for us. Although I like the cold (and LOVE the snow that sometimes comes with it), I’m excited to transition back to a much more active pattern that promises to bring gobs of snow to the mountains, heavy rain to the lowlands, and blustery winds just about everywhere.
Anybody missing the heat? If so, I’ve got some good news for you! It’s coming back! Now, before you start researching air conditioners online, know that this will not be a “heat wave” like the ones we saw to finish off our August. Rather, it will be a “warm wave,” with high temperatures in the 70s […]
Tuesday, February 4, 2016 4:25 pm A dreary afternoon at Cannon Beach, OR. Credit: Surflook Surf Cams Today was one of the grayer days I have witnessed in my 23 years upon this Earth. The skies were gray, the lake looked gray… heck, even my countenance looked gray. It wasn’t sunny enough brighten my mood, but […]
Saturday, December 26, 2015 9:46 pm Hi everybody! I got back in Seattle late on the 22nd, and now that I’ve gotten through Christmas, I’m excited to start blogging again once more. We recently had a major, prolonged snow-producing pattern for our region. I actually went up to Snoqualmie Pass today for a job interview […]
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 […]
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 6:02 pm A view of foggy Snoqualmie Pass from Chair 2, Alpental. Credit: ME! When I talk about snow in the Cascades, I often tend to focus on Snoqualmie Pass. This is probably because this is where I have skied most of my life (particularly Alpental), but Snoqualmie Pass is also […]
Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:59 pm Record flooding in Mt. Rainer National Park, November 2006. Credit: National Park Service For some reason, the weather always seems to get dramatically stormier as soon as we switch from October into November. The weather could be fine for trick-or-treating, and then whammo! November rolls around, and there are more fallen […]
