Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Hi y’all! It’s been a while, and I apologize for the delay in posts. I had some technical difficulties installing an SSL and spent a lot of time trying to configure a CNAME (an alternate domain for the same destination) for a WeatherTogether subdomain. The good part, however, is that WeatherTogether is now in HTTPS, […]
So far this autumn, most of our precipitation has come in the form of scattered showers as opposed to stratiform rain. That isn’t to say that these showers haven’t been heavy at times… I was biking back home from work on Wednesday, September 12 this past month and got stuck in lock-step with a very […]
Yes, you read that right. Unless something goes horribly awry (say, a massive brush fire right next to the weather station at Portland International Airport), next week will feature the hottest weather for Portland until at least mid-April 2019. After January 1, Portland’s record high doesn’t rise above 80 degrees until April 7, and at this point, […]
In this blog, I’ll touch on what I’ve interpreted as widespread, sensationalized coverage of Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Tropical Depression/Post-Tropical Storm Florence. While Florence has absolutely been the highest-impact U.S. landfalling storm since Hurricane Maria devastated Dominica and Puerto Rico, the media has also been dramatically exaggerating the storm’s effects. There are some fragrant examples of fake news, […]
Hurricane Florence is currently just offshore the North Carolina coast, and North Carolina is absolutely getting hammered as she slowly trudges onshore. As you would expect, the coast has been the hardest hit thus far and has been ravaged by life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and multiple flash flood warnings, but gusty winds are occurring […]
Hi all! First off, let me apologize profusely for not being more punctual with this blog. I’ve been very busy with work over the weekdays, and this past weekend, I was out tuna fishing some ~40 miles off the Columbia River. We didn’t exactly knock ’em dead… we only caught one tiny 6 pound tuna, […]
What a refreshing weekend! With a high of only 68 degrees, Sunday was Portland’s first sub-70 degree day since we hit 69 degrees on June 14. Our chill was brought to us via a deep upper-level trough arriving from the NW, and though we warmed up to 79 today as this trough passed east, Glacier […]
Well… it couldn’t last forever. The upper-level trough that pushed through the region last Friday ushered in a much cooler and cleaner airmass to give us a refreshing end to the workweek and start to the weekend. But as a ridge strengthened over the area on Saturday and onshore flow decreased, high-elevation smoke started to […]
I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed our sudden switch to cooler weather on Saturday. I was in Seattle for a weekend of boat chores and band practice, but even more fun than pressure-washing our boat was having all my windows open Friday night and feeling a strong, westerly, marine breeze suck all […]
Hi all! I’ll start by giving a “life update” of sorts: I’ve moved from being a meteorologist at Avangrid to being a meteorologist at Portland General Electric! At Avangrid, my work was primarily focused on very short-term, hourly energy forecasts for Avangrid’s wind farms along the Columbia River Gorge, and I worked a rotating shift […]
