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 […]
Monday, October 10, 2011 9:34 A.M. Don’t you just love these National Weather Service graphics? It’s hard to find one single graphic that has so many explanations and a model picture, but the NWS issues them when there is some sort of significant weather occurring. Pretty awesome!!! Over the next few days, we will get […]
Friday, May 27, 2011 10:16 A.M. First off, as an addition to my last blog post, I thought I’d mention that Seattle gets tornadoes too, but they are very weak and are not part of supercell thunderstorms. Instead, they are called “cold-core” funnel clouds and come from localized areas of circulation within a thunderstorm. I […]
November 5, 20097:39 P.M. Hello fellow weather enthusiasts. Right now, the front is coming ashore, but we still have a steady rain and will have it until at least midnight, where it will then begin to taper off. I want to talk about the future though after giving such a thorough talk on this current […]
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 […]
