Tuesday, January 19, 2016 1:42 pm Average precipitation anomalies from El Niño events. Credit: NOAA For winter-weather lovers and skiers in the Pacific Northwest, an El Niño forecast sounds like a death sentence. Such a forecast conjures up visions of no major windstorms, hardly any lowland snow, below-average snow in the mountains, and a “death […]
Gigantic Pattern Change
Saturday, December 26, 2015 9:46 pm Hi everybody! I got back in Seattle late on the 22nd, and now that I’ve gotten through Christmas, I’m excited to start blogging again once more. We recently had a major, prolonged snow-producing pattern for our region. I actually went up to Snoqualmie Pass today for a job interview […]
An Overview of Hurricane Patricia And Its Relationship To El Nino
Saturday, October 24, 2015 8:09 pm Visible satellite image of Hurricane Patricia at record intensity approaching the Western Mexico Coast. Taken October 23, 2015. Credit: NASA Terra/MODIS Satellite Patricia was the deepest cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Deeper than Wilma, deeper than Katrina, deeper than Camille, and far deeper than Sandy (all these storms […]
What Was the 1997-1998 El Niño Like?
Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:01 pm Beach erosion by Pacifica, California due to storms during the 1997-1998 El Niño event. Credit: USGS With all of this talk about the “Godzilla” El Niño of 2015, it’s important to remember that an event of this magnitude is not unprecedented. Back during the 1997-1998 winter, we saw the largest El Niño on […]
The Tragedy of Climate Misinformation
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:52 pm Albuquerque Tea Party, April 2009 Global warming deniers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are quite bold in their statements, denying any reasonable scientific claim, and instead claiming that global warming is a ‘socialist scam.’ Others are more subtle, claiming that evidence […]
My Fall Forecast
Sunday, September 13, 2015 5:19 pm If you ask an astronomer when summer ends, they’ll tell you “September 23.” That is the date of the autumnal equinox, the date when the day and night are approximately equal in length (the day is always a couple minutes longer because the sun does not set all at […]
An El Niño For California!
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 10:14 am Last year, climatologists were warning us that we could have one of the biggest El Niños in history, perhaps one even rivaling the legendary El Niño of 1997-1998. Those forecasts never verified, but you wouldn’t know that by our weather this past winter. El Niño winters are generally warmer and […]
Why Do People Deny Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:27 am Why do people deny global warming? While it is a hypothesis and not a scientific law, this hypothesis has verified since the dawn of the industrial revolution, with the Earth warming nearly 1 degree Celsius since then. Take a look at the picture below, which shows the increase in […]
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My Winter Weather Outlook
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:02 pm Hey everybody, I actually just produced a winter weather outlook for WeatherOn, and you can find it here. Long story short, our weak El Nino played a major role in my forecast, and the previous existence of the “Blob” did to a lesser extent. Snow in Eugene Enjoy! Charlie
Is El Nino Making A Comeback?
Friday, October 10, 2014 5:08 pm After a return to neutral conditions over the summer, we will likely see weak El Nino conditions for the 2014-2015 winter. At least that’s my prediction. And I will tell you why. There’s a wonderful, wonderful website hosted by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center that you can […]