Recap of Today, a Chance of Thunderstorms Saturday, and a Comparison of Satellite Images

Lightning Bolt

Friday, April 5, 2013 12:20 P.M. Thunderstorms in Seattle are very rare. Seattle doesn’t tend to get much in the way of ‘severe’ weather, where ‘severe’ is defined to be tornadoes/hail/rain/wind etc. from strong thunderstorms. When we do get thunderstorms though, it’s always fun to see, and we get occasional storms that drift westward over the […]

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If You Can Hear Thunder, Does That Mean There is Lightning?

Friends say the darndest things… I don’t have the same “drive” to update my blog in the summer as I do in the winter. You’ve probably noticed. But folks, this last week has been pretty amazing. I can’t recall ever seeing a week with as much thunderstorms in the lowlands as this one. And while […]

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It’s Thursday, Thursday.

Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:43 A.M. Yes, it may not be Friday, and the weekend may actually be two days away, but I’m still pretty darn excited. Besides it being Easter Sunday, which is always in style, the weather is expected to be nicer than it has been in a while. It certainly won’t be hot […]

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Morning Update

Saturday, September 24, 2011 9:47 A.M. This will be quick… I have people to meet and places to go! UW game at 12:30 by the way, go Huskies! Anyway, today will be warm and humid* as we have that warm southerly flow. We could see those thunderstorms in the Cascades, although it looks like we […]

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Weekend and Next Week

Friday, September 23, 2011 7:16 P.M. Hi everybody. As expected, the forecast for Monday has changed… again. I’m going to refrain from posting too much detail about it as it will probably change again. The models usually have a pretty hard time during the fall! Meanwhile, we had a nice warm day today. I said […]

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A Late-Night Update

Monday, March 7, 2011 2:41 A.M. Hey everybody, I can’t fall asleep, so what better thing to do than write a weather forecast? Sounds like a plan to me. We have been seeing cooler than normal weather for spring, which is actually very typical weather. What I have noticed is that spring weather is usually […]

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I’m back!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 12:38 P.M. Hey everybody! After a long break from this website due to an extremely hectic schedule, school is officially out, and I have no reason at all to not be writing these forecasts. We have a lot to talk about. The last day we got to 75 degrees was September […]

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Thunderstorms and a Frank Discussion on Hail vs. Snow

November 6, 2009 5:48 P.M. All I can say is WOW!!! Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last 20 hours or so you have no doubt noticed the intense precipitation that has been bombarding the area in the form of heavy showers and thunderstorms. The radar image above was shot at 11:40 P.M. […]

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