Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
The next two weeks look unseasonably calm. We’ll see a moderate system swing through on Friday, but other than that, our weather looks warmer and drier-than-average for the next 10 days as a strong, broad ridge of high pressure builds across the Western US. Given the boring weather ahead, I thought I’d do a quick […]
Early spring is upon us! I went hiking on Friday in Forest Park with fellow WeatherTogether blogger (and music buddy… he’s a great sax/french horn player!) Karl Bonner ahead of the cold front that swept through later that evening, and we had a great time looking at the budding flora, most of which had not […]
It’s been a tough winter for snow-lovers living in the Puget Sound region. It’s not because we haven’t seen any snow – we saw a widespread snowstorm December 8-9 that dropped an inch of snow at Sea-Tac, and a persistent but highly localized convergence zone over South Seattle delivered another 3 inches to Sea-Tac in […]
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 6:15 pm It was a bad week for the snow-lovers of the Pacific Northwest. Over the past couple days, we’ve had very moist and relatively mild flow coming into our region from the WSW. The result? Heavy rains on the Olympics and Northern Cascades, with much lighter precipitation in the Seattle […]
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 1:41 am Yesterday, I wrote about the Eastern third of the country and how much of that region was profoundly affected by a major blizzard that halted over 13,000 flights and caused 3 billion dollars in damage. Now, the weather action has shifted back to our neck of the woods, and […]
Monday, February 24, 2014 10:54 p.m. 99 closures of Snoqualmie Pass, 99-minute lift-lines. Take one down, pass it around, 98 closures of Snoqualmie Pass. That’s certainly what it’s felt like for most of this month. We have been battered again and again by storm after storm, and our once measly snowfall, which was below 50% […]
