Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
I apologize for not posting as much as I would like recently! I’ve been very busy tweaking the site and preparing for WeatherTogether’s booth at WeatherFest, which is part of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) annual conference. As luck would have it, the AMS conference is in Seattle this winter, so it definitely made sense […]
Well, I’m certainly regretting leaving Portland to come up to Seattle. Our heat in our house isn’t working, so I decided to flee up to my parents’ house in Seattle for warmth. Had I known that Portland was going to get a foot of snow Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, I definitely would have stayed! NW Oregon […]
It’s been a tough winter for snow-lovers living in the Puget Sound region. It’s not because we haven’t seen any snow – we saw a widespread snowstorm December 8-9 that dropped an inch of snow at Sea-Tac, and a persistent but highly localized convergence zone over South Seattle delivered another 3 inches to Sea-Tac in […]
While we’ve been cool and dry here in Western Washington over the past few days, areas of Southern Oregon and Northern California have been getting absolutely pummeled with snow! With modified arctic air already in place, a system that was still strengthening as it made landfall stormed ashore the Oregon/California border last night and dropped […]
In some of my previous blog posts this week, I talked about the potential for a major, extended arctic blast that could hang around for the first two weeks of January. Unfortunately for snow lovers, there has been a massive change in the models over the past couple days towards a much warmer pattern. We […]
As expected, the weak low that passed through from the NNW through Southwestern Washington last night brought scattered snow showers to parts of the area, with the highest amounts being in the Central Sound area between Seattle and Tacoma where a weak but very persistent convergence zone formed. There was an incredible gradient in snow […]
I’ve been posting relatively brief “Snupdates” on WeatherTogether’s Facebook Page tonight, but I’m seeing some interesting new developments on radar and thought I’d write a more in depth blog post about what I’m seeing and it’s consequences for snow to ring in the New Year. Let’s start by looking at the current radar image. This is […]
New model runs are coming in as we speak, and they show a similar scenario for late New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day. Next week still looks like the coldest in several years, and there is low confidence in a moderate-to-major snowstorm on Friday, with model solutions agreeing on bringing a system into the area while […]
I must admit, it’s a little difficult coming up with varying titles for your blogs when you are simply blogging about the same thing. It’s not as difficult as forecasting snow in Seattle, but it’s definitely up there. Models are still adamant with a major pattern change beginning Saturday evening as a deep upper-level-low drops […]
Well, another day has passed, and my confidence is building that we will see a major and prolonged arctic outbreak for the first half of January. We’ve got a lot to talk about, so let’s get right to it. In my blog post last night, I talked about a massive ridge of high pressure centered […]
