Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
On Friday, Seattle was cut off from the north, the south, and the east due to flooding from the Chehalis River inundating I-5, extreme amounts of snow in the Washington passes, and all roads out of Vancouver BC being closed due to heavy snowfall. None of these individual events are unprecedented – the Chehalis spilled […]
Early autumn is usually pretty tranquil for the Pacific Northwest. The semi-permanent ridge of high pressure in the Eastern Pacific that keeps us so dry and mild through the summer is usually still robust enough to keep the storm track to our north, and any storms that do impact our area are generally pretty wimpy, […]
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 […]
