Wednesday, November 9, 2011 6:29 P.M. That, my friends, is the strongest mid-latitude cyclone to impact the U.S. in 40 years. There have been plenty of strong storms to hit the United States, with the Hanukkah Eve Storm of 2006 and the Great Coastal Gale of 2007 recently impacting our region, with the eastern half […]
Seattle Snow?
Sunday, November 6, 2011 7:13 P.M. Seattle, November 22, 2010 Now, I don’t want people to get too excited, but take a look at what the NWS said at the end of their forecast discussion this afternoon. LONG TERM… CONFIDENCE IN THIS PERIOD REMAINED SOMEWHAT LOW DUE TO DIFFERENCES IN THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS. IT […]
The Big Nor’Easter
Monday, October 31, 2011 11:42 P.M. The East Coast commonly gets these strong storms called Nor’Easters, which are named such because they skirt along the northeast coast from a southwesterly direction, traveling to the northeast as they strengthen. This particular Nor’Easter was unique – it brought heavy snow to the Northeast before Halloween! New York […]
Long Term Cold Snap?
Monday, October 24, 2011 11:46 P.M. The graphic above shows the temperatures and precipitation predicted each day out to 16 days in the future by the GFS (Global Forecast System) model. I recently installed several programs from http://www.brianschmit.com/ and this was one of them. I’ve talked to Brian and he has given me permission to […]
Mountain Snowfall Forecast Gaining More Credibility
Friday, October 7, 2011 11:15 A.M. Looking at the WRF-GFS models from the UW this morning, I have some good news for winter sports and water supply enthusiasts everywhere! The forecast for significant snowfall in the mountains is gaining more credibility. It isn’t a slam dunk, but it definitely is looking more likely after the […]
First Significant Mountain Snowfall?
Thursday, October 6, 2011 11:30 P.M. Hi everybody, it’s late but I thought I’d give a quick update. It is getting to be that time of year again, and the NWS has recently ascribed a “Special Weather Statement” to the Olympic and Cascade mountains. One of the models, the ECMWF, is showing a particularly strong […]
Snow Still Be Comin’
Wednesday February 23, 2011 11:15 A.M. Hey everybody! Just a quick morning update. It still looks like some places are gonna see six inches of snow, except the band has shifted a little northward into Snohomish county. Seattle still looks to receive at least three inches or so. We won’t really know until later this […]
Snow is coming!!!
Tuesday February 22, 2011 11:46 P.M. Yay! I’m back on this blog. In retrospect I should have put an update that I just needed to take a break from it to work on some academic and college stuff and get all that stuff up and running, but now I am on mid-winter break. And of […]
Huge Midwest Storm!!!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:05 P.M. Hey everybody! I am now a second semester senior, so I’m sure you know what that means. It means, of course, that I will be writing a lot more weather forecasts because I now have some additional time to do so! I want to thank everybody who has been […]
A Note About Snow and looking ahead
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:29 P.M. Hey everybody, I am going to try and update this blog more often, even if it is only for a little while. We saw more snow than what was expected last night, although not that much more. The reason? The models scoured out the cold air too quickly. This […]