Wednesday, September 3, 2014 2:14 pm I’ve been wondering when we’d get a “zone to end all zones,” and this is the best one since the morning of December 18, 2008. I don’t think anything can top that one… I got 4-6 inches of snow and school was canceled. Our house also almost got struck […]
First Big Storm of the Season
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 8:49 p.m. I remember when the above picture went viral all over the internet last year. I took one look at it and knew that it was fake; the cloud in the back is a LP (low-precipitation) supercell thunderstorm, and New York was not in an atmospheric configuration that would allow […]
A Solid Day of Rain
Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:48 p.m. We got a quarter of an inch earlier this month, but we got nothing in July, and I don’t recall it raining very hard in June either. I was in Micronesia and it was plenty rainy there, but I don’t recall hearing of any torrential rains in Seattle. And […]
The Graceful Apocalypse: Part 2 – Synopsis, Repercussions, and Explanations
Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:38 P.M. Hey everybody. Sorry for not posting for a while… I had a seizure several nights back and screwed up my sleeping schedule, so I’ve just been really unorganized for the last few days. I’m totally fine now. Regular readers of this blog know I have epilepsy, and I talk […]
Back to the Status Quo
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:28 P.M. Mr. Krupp on the left, and his alter-ego Captain Underpants on the right. Retrieved from the Captain Underpants Wikia Page. I don’t know how many of you read the Captain Underpants books, but I grew up with them. They were based on the premise of Mr. Krupp, an extraordinarily […]
Red Flag Warnings and Flash Flood Watches
Friday, August 9, 2013 1:35 P.M. Flash Flood in Gobi, Mongolia in 2004 – Uploaded by Wikimedia User QFL247 It would seem as though the current watches and warnings posted around Washington contradict each other. How can you be at risk of forest fires and flash floods at the same time? Rain mitigates the damage done by fires, […]
An Electrical Storm
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:26 P.M. It’s all a matter of perspective. I had a long, meaningful conversation with a girl last night. It wasn’t under starlight, it was under partly cloudy skies. But hey, those were just as cool. She asked me why I wished for bad weather. I was confused; I never wish […]
“Unsettled” Weather
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:12 P.M. I was looking through the UW 12z extended WRF-GFS, and in one of the model frames, I saw an “unsettled” pattern. Meteorologists always talk about unsettled weather. But what does unsettled weather really mean? “Unsettled” weather does NOT refer to nice weather. Most of you knew that, but I […]
