Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Today’s weather pattern is a real treat to look at on satellite. We have marginally unstable air moving inland, and this air is just unstable enough to give crustal clear, bluebird skies over the ocean but heavy thundershowers over land. Why is this? The Pacific Ocean is only in the mid-50s, and the air over […]
There’s a saying on the myriad of online Pacific Northwest weather Facebook groups and forums. When it looks like our snow chances are over for the winter, it’s time to ‘stick a Fork in it.’ Here are just a few common derivatives of the “Fork” analogy. It’s Fork time Fork it Don’t Fork it yet, […]
I have a somewhat bad habit of overusing alliteration in my titles and posts, and this post marks the second consecutive post I’ve made a tongue-twisting title revolving around spring. But when you realize how many weather words begin with the letter s… supercell, sleet/snow/slush, all the stratus clouds, and even Sharknados 1-4 (rumor has it […]
Hi everybody! I apologize for the delay in posts over the past several days – I have been working very hard on my Grads scripts and have been trying to figure out how to get them online! For those who don’t know, Grads is a programming language used to plotted gridded datasets such as those […]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:28 P.M. Last night, I went walking with some friends around the UW campus just to get a breath of fresh air and get some relief from the plethora of work thrust upon us by our most excellent professors. I knew that showers were in the forecast, but I failed to […]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:28 P.M. Hey everybody! Look at the radar! As you can see, heavy post-frontal showers are swinging through the region after a warm front passed through today. This radar image provides a good example of what orographic enhancement is. Look at the Cascades. There are much more showers around them than […]
November 20, 2009 3:44 P.M. Hey everybody! Many of my devoted Garfield High School following saw me in the Messenger, the school newspaper today. I’m truly humbled to have had such a great article written about me and to have been given the chance to show something I have started with the rest of the […]
October 17, 2009 9:06 P.M. Hello everybody. I’m actually switching from facebook groups to blogger because I can post pictures on blogger. Still, I’ll have them up on facebook, but I’ll let everybody know that I am on blogger now as well via a message. Both of these pictures are from Cliff Mass’ blog… I […]
