Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Parts of NE Portland and Clark County have seen a few inches of snowfall so far tonight, but most of the Portland metro area below 500-1000 feet has been stuck with plain ol’ boring rain. However, downtown Portland and even the SW metro area will see a trace to two inches of snow by tomorrow […]
Snow is in the forecast once again, and this time, Portland should get more than an inch. But before I dive into the snow potential this weekend, let me first touch on the surprise snow that Portland saw Monday night/Tuesday morning. I have to admit, I was pretty jealous when I saw the surprise snowmaggeddon […]
WOW! What was expected to be nothing more than a few scattered snow showers for Western Washington ended up being a bona-fide blizzard for the Northern Interior and a major lowland snowstorm for most locations north of Olympia. I was actually up in Seattle for the weekend doing some recording with my funk band Circular […]
By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard of the infamous “polar vortex.” While this term has been in the meteorological literature since 1853, it sprung into the vernacular during the 2013-2014 winter, which featured repeated arctic outbreaks that punished the Midwest and Northeast with record low temperatures. The first “Sharknado” movie was released in the […]
The strongest storm thus far of the 2018-2019 storm season brought a brief but intense blow to many areas last night, with many locations in the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound experiencing 50 mph gusts and a few locations even hitting 60! I’ve heard that some folks are calling this storm the “Epiphany Storm” since […]
After a crazy-active week last week, there thankfully appear to be no major storms on the horizon for at least the rest of 2018. I say “thankfully” because although I am a storm fan, I’m also a meteorologist for a living coming off a week-and-a-half holiday vacation where weather was the last thing on my […]
Hi all! Sorry for not writing anything anything this past week, I was vacationing with my folks in Costa Rica! My brother Henry has been teaching English abroad for the past year there, so we jumped at the chance to visit him for a week and haul him back home to Seattle for the holidays […]
Hi all! I hope everybody had a great weekend and enjoyed a rainy Sunday across the region. As damp and dreary as today has been, several even stronger storms will move through the area this week and will give us the classic trifecta of winter weather: wind, rain, and very heavy mountain snow. If you […]
Finally! In case you haven’t noticed, the weather thus far this storm season has been pretty boring. We’ve yet to see any windstorms, rainstorms, or snowstorms of significance, either in the mountains or the lowlands. But that will change tomorrow. A truly massive storm stretching all the way from the Gulf of Alaska to the […]
I know I’m pretty darn late to this blog – these wildfires have occurred two weeks ago. But I would be remiss if I did not at least write a little something about the devastating fires that have caused so much destruction over California. Two fires in particular – the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles […]
