Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:07 pm Edvard Munch’s The Scream As the picture above insinuates, the future is not good. Now, when I’m talking about the future, I’m not talking about 100 years from now (although that’s pretty bad too). I’m not even talking about 1,000 years from now. No, I’m talking in the realm of […]
Thermonuclear Energy
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:15 a.m. Back in high school, I wrote a post on nuclear energy. It was the most-read post for a long time on this blog. It has since fallen to 2nd place behind “Mt. Rainier Weather.” However, they are very close in views, so there are brief times when it reclaims […]
A Major Breakthrough in Numerical Weather Prediction for the United States
Monday, January 5, 2015 1:10 pm There is currently major flooding on the Tolt and Snoqualmie Rivers near Carnation, and I had just Google’d ‘NWS’ to get to the Seattle NWS homepage (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/ is too much work) when I stumbled upon a rather important headline. Retrieved from the original press release from NOAA. No hyperbole can […]
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Autumn Has Arrived
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:07 pm Good evening everybody, I just got back from my first day of school. I’m actually pretty exhausted, so this will be a quickie. Only nine more months to go… We officially had our Autumnal Equinox here in Seattle at 7:29 pm on Monday, September 22. I’m sure you all […]
A Convergence Zone to End All Convergence Zones
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 2:14 pm I’ve been wondering when we’d get a “zone to end all zones,” and this is the best one since the morning of December 18, 2008. I don’t think anything can top that one… I got 4-6 inches of snow and school was canceled. Our house also almost got struck […]
Bárðarbunga – Is a Major Volcanic Eruption In The Cards?
Thursday, August 22, 201411:05 p.m. Bárðarbunga releasing steam from beneath the Vatnajökull Glacier. Photo Credit: Oddur Sigurdsson, Iceland Geological Survey. It’s safe to say that Iceland’s remote Bárðarbunga volcano doesn’t look like a typical volcano. Even though it is 6,591 feet tall, it has all but been completely consumed by the massive Vatnajökull glacier, with the only […]
Marine Pushes, and Their Effect on Summer High Temperatures
Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:03 p.m. We “only” reached 70 degrees today. At 6 degrees below average for a high temperature, it’s fairly cool, but not extraordinarily so. The last time we didn’t hit 70 was on July 24th, meaning it’s been nearly a month of consecutive 70 degree-or-higher days, with some days much higher […]
Lake Washington Beach Temperatures
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:27 p.m. Here fishy fishy One reason I love warm summers like the one we have been having is because of the excellent fishing they provide. When the water is warmer, the fish are hungrier, and thus grow to larger sizes. This was probably taken in 2004 +- a couple years, […]
The Oso, Washington Landslide
Monday, March 24, 2014 1:54 a.m. Retrieved from WSDOT Flickr page Sorry about the delay in postings. End-of-quarter finals unfortunately usually take higher priority over weather posts. This isn’t always the case during the end of fall quarter, as we are in the thick of the storm season and lowland snow is a very real […]
ATMOS 301 (Final) – Numerical Weather Prediction
Sunday, December 8, 2013 11:39 p.m. Numerical weather prediction has gotten pretty darn good over the past few decades, but it wasn’t always that way. But taking this class has made me realize how incredible numerical weather prediction really is. I mean, c’mon now… we take a whole bunch of numbers, put them through these […]
