Wednesday, December 7, 20111:05 P.M. The weather around here for the past ten days has been incredibly boring. I’d venture to say it has been even more boring than hundreds of left turns on the Nascar track. Sorry Nascar fans. But there is some good news! The models have been moving toward a pattern change […]
Air Quality
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 10:10 A.M. This has to be a lightning quick post, but that is ok because there is not much going on weather-wise right now. Take a look at the webcam above looking downtown. Look at all that gross haze! Ugh… I hate that type of weather. Thankfully, you can escape this […]
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A Huge Inversion
Monday, December 5, 2011 10:20 A.M. Hi everybody. Sorry for not writing the past few days, my computer has been at the shop and I haven’t had access to one. I am writing this post at the library and I need to be sitting down in a class in nine minutes, so this will be […]
High Pressure, Inversions, and Fog
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:59 P.M. Photo Credit: Kevin Ebi @ Living Wilderness The next week or beyond will be very boring and uneventful for meteorologists. The culprit? A HUGE ridge of high pressure off the Eastern Pacific. Take a look at the current atmospheric configuration from tonight’s 00z UW WRF-GFS run. Valid 10:00 pm […]
What a Convergence Zone!
Monday, November 28, 2011 4:22 P.M. 05:31 pm PST Sun 27 Nov 2011 Sorry for the lack of posts over the Thanksgiving weekend, I was at home and the internet there is dreadfully slow… so slow that it is impractical to use. And forget about using blogger… Last night, we saw an incredibly well-defined convergence […]
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A Difficult Forecast
Monday, November 6, 2011 12:55 P.M. Forecasting is generally a low-stress profession, but there are times when you know everybody is watching your every keystroke, and this is one of those times. The models look a little bit warmer today, but not much. I seriously doubt that we will see lowland snow with this […]
A Little Bit of Mountain Snow, and Possible Excitement in the Extended?
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 11:20 A.M. Valid 05:00 pm PDT Thu, 03 Nov 2011 – 36hr Fcst – UW 4km 12z WRF-GFS 24-hour snowfall The Northeast got walloped by snowfall this past weekend, but we will soon see our first pass-level snowfall event in the mountains! There will be no power outages to millions of […]
Change is in the Air
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:41 P.M. Yesterday, I wrote about the variability of autumn weather in the Pacific Northwest and how we can see big changes in short periods of time. Today, we didn’t see a monumental change in the weather, but it definitely wasn’t like yesterday. As I was walking back from the IMA […]
Nice for now, but Rain is on the way
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 5:09 P.M. Today was my first day of college, and also my first day of Atmospheric Sciences 101. That’s right, the legendary Clifford Mass taught me about meteorology. I learned some cool things, like what a Stevenson Screen is. If you want to find out what one is, you should take […]
Not Much to Talk About
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:29 P.M. Not much to talk about today… there is an unstable air mass over the area, although most of the activity is over Vancouver Island. There may be an isolated thunderstorm over northern Washington. The atmosphere will stabilize over the next couple days, and Thursday in particular will be a […]
