I’ve always enjoyed science communication and meteorology, and I first began writing weather blogs in high school to provide forecasts and other weather/science related articles for my classmates and friends. The idea for WeatherTogether came from my desire to create an online blogging community where weather enthusiasts and professional meteorologists could collaborate and reach a wider audience. Since its founding in 2016, WeatherTogether contributors have written over 10,000 unique blogs on weather and science topics, and our blogging community spans across the United States and Europe. I’ve also been interested in weather data visualization and post-processing, and I’ve created a suite of model charts to accompany the WeatherTogether blogs. These models are a nice visual accompaniment to our blogs and help us explain our analyses and forecasts.
I studied atmospheric science at the University of Washington, and since graduating, I’ve spent most of my professional career as a meteorologist in the energy sector – first at Avangrid Renewables as a wind energy meteorologist, and then at Portland General Electric, where I provided weather analytics/forecasts for power traders and worked on many exciting projects with PGE’s power operations and wildfire mitigation departments. Since autumn 2021, I have worked as an electricity trader for Puget Sound Energy, where I purchase/sell electricity to other utilities and power producers, bid power into wholesale energy markets, and schedule the operation of different power plants to economically and reliably balance PSE’s power supply with PSE’s system demand. Additionally, I continue to provide weather and analyses to other groups on the energy trading floor to help them plan their position for the week ahead and hedge weather-related risk many months ahead of time.
In my free time, I love to go hiking, skiing, and fishing around the Pacific Northwest, and I play saxophone and am active on the Seattle and Portland jazz scenes. You can often find me in my funk band, Circular Reasoning, at a bar, club, music venue, or eating establishment near you.
I hope you enjoy this website and find it informative. You can always reach me at charlie@weathertogether.net.