Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
With the days rapidly getting shorter and the first major system of autumn only hours away, I’ve been getting more and more excited for the beginning of storm season. There’s nothing I love more than a good Pacific Northwest lowland snowstorm, and windstorms, mountain snow, and heavy rain aren’t far behind. So when I caught […]
I hope you can forgive me for the click-baity, questionably accurate title. From an astronomical perspective, autumn will begin on 1:02 pm PDT Friday, September 22, 2017, and meteorological fall officially began on September 1st. But after a record-smashing streak of drier and hotter-than-average weather, we’ll finally get our first true taste of autumn next […]
This will be a very short update considering the monumental size and scope of Irma, as I’m actually planning to go fishing momentarily. I’ll collaborate with some other WeatherTogether bloggers and have a much more comprehensive blog reviewing Irma later this week. Irma passed through the Florida Keys earlier this morning as a large Category […]
With our record dry summer and the hottest August on record for many places around the Pacific Northwest, we’ve inevitably had an incredibly active fire season and the smokiest summer I can ever remember seeing west of the Cascade Crest. The latest major blaze – the Eagle Creek Fire – came uncomfortably close to home, […]
With Southeastern Texas still reeling from Hurricane Harvey, it feels a little surreal to be talking about another major hurricane impacting the United States. But with Hurricane Irma, that may well be the case. In this blog, I’ll give an overview of Irma’s history and some background on Cape Verde cyclones, the current status of Irma, […]
By Charlie Phillips AND Mark Ingalls Tropical Storm Harvey has turned from a severe event into a catastrophic, record-breaking event that may go down as the costliest flooding disaster in the history of the United States. And yes, that includes Hurricane Katrina. Some important notes before we start: If you are in Texas and find […]
I gotta go to bed soon (gotta wake up at 4:30 tomorrow!), so this post is going to be brief. But there’s no way I could nod off to sleep without writing something about this incredibly strong storm. Hurricane Harvey made landfall at the northern tip of San Jose Island at 10 pm CDT time […]
Monday’s solar eclipse was the most breathtaking natural event I’ve ever witnessed in my life. The transition from light to dark was frighteningly fast, and I was dumbfounded by the beauty and extent of the sun’s corona at totality. I was so taken aback by the experience and everything happened so fast that my memory is […]
There’s only 17 hours to go until the eclipse, and we are now within the range of the latest HRRRX (Experimental High-Resolution Rapid Refresh) model! This is exciting because the HRRRX takes the decrease in solar radiation due to the eclipse into account. Take a look at the predicted incoming solar radiation tomorrow and see […]
Can you believe that there are less than 48 hours to go until the Great American Eclipse of 2017? I get giddy just thinking about it. The weather is looking spectacular for nearly everyone – the coast will likely be shrouded in low clouds for the viewing, and there’s still some uncertainty about a weak marine layer […]
