Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Saturday’s rain was refreshing, wasn’t it? Some spots saw far more rain than forecast as a weak upper-level low slowly drifted southeastward from the Olympic Peninsula through the Willamette Valley and into Central Oregon, while other spots saw hardly any rain at all. This was particularly true for the Puget Sound region, where a local […]
Saturday, August 6, 2011 12:52 A.M. (up late) When storms come our way, I usually look at multiple weather models, because they all show different outcomes from the same set of present conditions. Sometimes these different outcomes are pretty similar, and other times, they are completely out of sync. When there is an especially tricky […]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:50 P.M. Hey everybody! So I have some absolutely fantastic news for skiers and snowboarders! For the first time in a really, REALLY long time, it looks as though we could get into a snowier pattern for the Cascades. Why are we going to see snow later on there as opposed […]
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 5:50 P.M. I said in yesterday’s post that El Nino brings warmer and drier than normal weather to the Pacific Northwest. But I realized that I did not explain why. You see, what El Nino does is amplify the jet stream. You would think that this would give us more rain, […]
