Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
7am Sunday As you’ve probably heard by now, the Pacific Northwest will experience a significant, prolonged heat wave this week. Excessive Heat Watches are currently in effect for the Willamette Valley, Northeast Oregon, and nearly all of Central/Eastern Washington, and the hot weather is expected to persist throughout the week before a very gradual cooling […]
In my AP European History class back in high school, I remember being astounded by some of the suffixes that the kings and queens had. With a name like Louis XVI, is it any surprise that the French rose up and demanded a change in government? In the spirit of European monarchies, we have our […]
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 […]
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 […]
