Wednesday, January 6, 2016 11:20 pm Richard Sherman looking ferocious during week 13 vs the Vikings Credit: seahawks.com I’ve been following several things lately: the return of rain to California, the thousands of earthquakes on the Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island, and even the slight, slight weakening of the El Niño in the tropical Pacific. It […]
Turning Colder!
Monday, November 23, 2015 1:19 pm Well, I got pretty busy this past week and the weekend after putting off all my work to deal with that windstorm. It wasn’t quite as big as I thought it was going to be, but it was still pretty windy around the area with 45-70 mph gusts throughout […]
Snow Arriving Right On Time For Snoqualmie Pass
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 6:02 pm A view of foggy Snoqualmie Pass from Chair 2, Alpental. Credit: ME! When I talk about snow in the Cascades, I often tend to focus on Snoqualmie Pass. This is probably because this is where I have skied most of my life (particularly Alpental), but Snoqualmie Pass is also […]
Snow at Snoqualmie Pass
Monday, March 30, 2015 4:28 pm No, this isn’t an early April Fools joke. Snow actually is going to make a return to Snoqualmie Pass tomorrow. Consider this: Snoqualmie Pass is “supposed” to have picked up 350 inches by now based on their five-year average, but to date they have only picked up 84. They’ve […]
Snow Returns To The Mountains
Monday, February 23, 2015 11:50 p.m. When I was walking home from school today, I stopped at a viewpoint right above my house to take a quick glance at the Cascades, curious to see how white they where. I knew how atrocious this winter had been in the snow department, so I wasn’t very optimistic, […]
The Historic East Coast Snowstorm
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:50 am I think of my commitment to school like a sinusoidal function – specifically, a sine wave shifted 90 degrees to the right so that it becomes a cosine wave. I tend to start off school hot. I’m well rested from summer, and I can’t wait to get back into […]
Our Sobering Snow Year
Friday, January 9, 2015 12:05 pm If you read my winter weather outlook for this winter on WeatherOn, you’ll note that I predicted warmer-than-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation for this year in the Pacific Northwest. The precipitation has been near normal or slightly less, but temperatures have been well above normal. When you have well-above-normal temperatures, […]
Crazy Snow in Buffalo
Friday, November 21, 2014 9:58 pm We have a bad habit of making a big deal out of the white stuff in Seattle, and it seems to get worse with each passing ‘blizzard.’ It’s all too predictable; the chains on buses strike sparks with the ground as the snow that was seemingly ‘promised’ by the […]
The Polar Vortex – Winter is Coming
Monday, November 10, 2014 12:39 pm I think the above meme explains all you really need to know about the weather this coming week. But I shall oblige your curiosity and explain the meteorological situation that has led us to our first real chill of the winter. First, let’s learn what a “polar vortex” is. […]
Sierra Snow
Monday, February 24, 2014 10:54 p.m. 99 closures of Snoqualmie Pass, 99-minute lift-lines. Take one down, pass it around, 98 closures of Snoqualmie Pass. That’s certainly what it’s felt like for most of this month. We have been battered again and again by storm after storm, and our once measly snowfall, which was below 50% […]
