Dreadfully Hot

Friday, May 10, 2013 1:42 A.M. Good morning everybody! The weather outside today is wonderful… much better than that dreadful weather we had Monday. “Dreadful?,” you might ask? Dreadful. At least for me. At some time during autumn 2012, I decided that I was no longer going to wear shorts (excepting formal occasions, like weddings […]

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Sunshine As Far As The Models Can Calculate

Saturday, September 15, 2012 9:56 P.M. If you don’t recognize this sun, you obviously missed out on some great children’s ‘tele’vision shows Folks, I have never seen Seattle be as dry for as long as it has been this past year. And although I’m only 19 years old, I bet many older folks can’t remember […]

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It’s Thursday, Thursday.

Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:43 A.M. Yes, it may not be Friday, and the weekend may actually be two days away, but I’m still pretty darn excited. Besides it being Easter Sunday, which is always in style, the weather is expected to be nicer than it has been in a while. It certainly won’t be hot […]

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New Quarter, Old Weather

Monday, March 26, 2012 10:34 A.M. UW Quad: 3/22/2012 UW Quad: 3/24/2012 Both of these photos were taken from http://seattlejapanesegardencommunityblog.blogspot.com/. It’s a new quarter at UW. It’s springtime in the northern hemisphere. The cherry blossons in the Quad are blooming. And, as of 10:47 A.M., the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up precisely 129.00 points. Everything […]

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Inconsistencies in the Models

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 […]

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High Pressure, Inversions, and Fog

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:59 P.M. Photo Credit: Kevin Ebi @ Living Wilderness The next week or beyond will be very boring and uneventful for meteorologists. The culprit? A HUGE ridge of high pressure off the Eastern Pacific. Take a look at the current atmospheric configuration from tonight’s 00z UW WRF-GFS run. Valid 10:00 pm […]

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