Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
I hate to do this, but I’m going to start off this blog on a preachy note. I think most people get the severity of the coronavirus situation by now, but to those who don’t – I also didn’t grasp the severity until this past week. I saw the death toll skyrocketing in Italy and […]
We live in a completely different world now than just a week ago. I can’t even imagine what the next weeks, months, or even hours may hold, but I know one thing: this virus will completely restructure our society, economy, and culture, and hopefully towards a more equitable, sustainable direction. In this time of great […]
One of the most well-known aspects of influenza, more commonly known as the ‘flu,’ is that it occurs in yearly, seasonal outbreaks, with infections increasing as much as ten times from their summer minimums during the dark days of winter. This is also true with the common cold, which is not a specific virus like […]
With the coronavirus dominating seemingly every aspect of our lives, it’s hard to pay attention to much else, including the weather. The situation unfolding in Italy right now is horrifying, particularly considering that the country was in completely fine shape just two weeks ago, and I fear it is only a matter of time before […]
Early spring is upon us! I went hiking on Friday in Forest Park with fellow WeatherTogether blogger (and music buddy… he’s a great sax/french horn player!) Karl Bonner ahead of the cold front that swept through later that evening, and we had a great time looking at the budding flora, most of which had not […]
Just a quick post/explanation about the unsettled weather we’ve seen today! We’ve seen plenty of “showers and sunbreaks” today as an upper-level-trough moves onshore. Upper-level-troughs are associated with both cold air aloft and large-scale vertical motion, and both of these features support the larger process known as convection and the associated “showers and sunbreaks” we […]
Tuesday began clear for most of the Willamette Valley, but folks in downtown Portland and Vancouver had to wait until 10-11 am to break out of the clouds. The 10:00 am visible satellite image below shows how isolated this fog was to downtown Portland. Thankfully, those areas of patchy fog burned off by 11-11:30, and […]
I went snowshoeing up at Mirror Lake on Saturday, and I can confirm that there is a TON of snow up there! Honestly, it’s shocking that we have as much snow as we do in the 3000-5000′ range of the Southern Washington/Northern Oregon Cascades. According to Mark Nelsen’s most recent blog post, the December 1st […]
This post was co-produced with fellow WeatherTogether blogger Mark Ingalls of Kennewick, WA. From Wednesday, 2/5 – Saturday 2/8, the Blue Mountains of Southeast Washington and Northeast Oregon witnessed a historic, unprecedented period of heavy rain and flooding. Like almost all of out wintertime river flooding events, this event associated with an atmospheric river – […]
Morning clouds didn’t burn off as fast as expected today, so most folks were shrouded in our typical wintertime blanket of low clouds and fog. But after a stunning Sunday and Monday, I’m completely fine with a gray day! I had a three-day weekend and got to spend a ton of time outside, and I […]
