Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Good evening everybody! I hope ya’ll are having a great Sunday thus far. I know I have. Why, you ask? It’s been snowing like crazy in the mountains. Stevens Pass reports 20 inches of new snow over the past 24 hours, while Snoqualmie pass reports 19. All of this has made for some very dicey […]
Snow is really coming down over the Cascades right now! Snoqualmie Pass is currently “chains required on all vehicles except all-wheel-drive,” and Stevens is only slightly better with chains required on trucks and traction tires required for all vehicles. And the top of Alpental looks downright stormy. As the radar below shows, a cold front […]
Well, the new model runs are in, so I thought I’d give another forecast on the snow (or lack thereof) expected for Monday morning. Each individual model has changed little over the past several runs, but the different models show vastly different scenarios. The American model (GFS) paints a couple inches on the higher hills […]
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 […]
Credit: NASA AQUA Satellite, ~2pm on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016 Yesterday was definitely a crazy day for weather! For much of the day, a pretty strong Puget Sound Convergence Zone set up shop in the Northern and Central Puget Sound regions, waxing and waning in intensity and shifting northward and southward as the […]
Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:10 pm Image taken at approximately 12:00 pm 1/28/2016 Credit: NASA Terra MODIS Satellite Apart from an extremely rainy morning for many folks, today ended up being a pretty nice day. Our atmospheric river that had been giving us so much rain, wind, and warm temperatures finally sagged to our south […]
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 2:14 pm I’ve been wondering when we’d get a “zone to end all zones,” and this is the best one since the morning of December 18, 2008. I don’t think anything can top that one… I got 4-6 inches of snow and school was canceled. Our house also almost got struck […]
Saturday, April 13, 2013 5:04 P.M. From Wednesday, April 10, 2013: “We’ll have some rain coming in Friday afternoon, but I’ll bet my life on having a strong convergence zone somewhere in the area Saturday afternoon due to a cool, moist, onshore flow splitting around the Olympics and converging somewhere along Puget Sound. If I’m still […]
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:30 P.M. I don’t own an umbrella. I don’t own rain boots.The only thing that I need to protect me from the elements is my skin. It’s worked out pretty well so far. But today, when I walked out of a physics lab, I saw looked out the window and saw […]
Sunday April 1, 2012 6:24 P.M. Waterspout over the Florida Keys. Retrieved from NOAA. When I was looking at the radar today, I definitely noticed some rather heavy rain showers. I have a house in Cultus Bay on South Whidbey Island, so I wasn’t too surprised when my neighbor called me to tell me the […]
