Saturday, October 12, 2013 10:39 p.m. I’ve been pretty active in the weather department lately. This quarter, I’m finally taking some majors’ atmospheric sciences classes, and let me tell you, learning about the development of cyclones is a whole heck of a lot interesting than learning about things like the Newton-Leibniz-Gauss-Green-Ostrogradskii-Stokes-Poincaré formula (commonly called called […]
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Saturday, October 5, 2013 5:32 p.m. I was talking with Steve Pool last week about political parties. The Democrats and the Republicans are at such ends with each other, and because they are always debating or filibustering or doing something counterproductive, they never get anything accomplished. They contest when they should compromise. They quarrel when […]
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The Graceful Apocalypse: Part 2 – Synopsis, Repercussions, and Explanations
Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:38 P.M. Hey everybody. Sorry for not posting for a while… I had a seizure several nights back and screwed up my sleeping schedule, so I’ve just been really unorganized for the last few days. I’m totally fine now. Regular readers of this blog know I have epilepsy, and I talk […]
The Graceful Apocalypse: Part 1 – Basic Thunderstorm Knowledge
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:25 P.M. Last Friday night will rank up, at least in my mind, with some of the most memorable weather events in Seattle’s history. That means I’ll put it right up there with the Inaugural Day Storm, the Hanukkah Eve Storm (and associated torrential downpour), the December 2008 snow events, the 2007 Great Coastal Gale… […]
Perseids Meteor Shower
Monday, August 12, 2013 3:33 P.M. Hello! I know many of you are waiting for a blog about our thunderstorms and all that wonderful stuff over the weekend. I’ve send out requests to certain photographers to use their pictures on my blog, and I’ve also sent out emails to some of the top meteorological minds […]
Marine Pushes and Visibility
Friday, August 9, 2013 3:20 P.M. In many parts of the country, air conditioning is necessary during the summer months. Even in places with high and low temperatures similar to us (usually places that are close to the Canadian border, such as International Falls, Minnesota and Portland, Maine) generally have higher relative humidities. And Chicago? […]
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Progress in Numerical Weather Prediction
Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:38 P.M. Cliff Mass – Retrieved from UW Atmospheric Sciences Website Many of you are familiar with Cliff Mass, an atmospheric sciences professor at the UW who has a weather blog (cliffmass.blogspot.com) and a weekly weather discussion slot on KPLU. He is very active in the public scope and gives many […]
Working Together to Forecast Weather Better
Friday, April 12, 2013 2:57 PM If any of you ever watched a certain t.v. show that’s about more than just card games, you are familiar with the picture above. We need to work together more as a society in general. I mean, look at Congress. The rifts between the Democratic and Republican Parties are […]
Small Zone, Intense Convergence
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:30 P.M. I don’t own an umbrella. I don’t own rain boots.The only thing that I need to protect me from the elements is my skin. It’s worked out pretty well so far. But today, when I walked out of a physics lab, I saw looked out the window and saw […]
Recap of Today, a Chance of Thunderstorms Saturday, and a Comparison of Satellite Images
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 […]
