Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Before I discuss this landmark bill signed by President Trump, I have the pleasure of announcing some very good news regarding WeatherTogether! We finally have automatically updating model charts online! You can find these charts at http://weathertogether.net/models. Many things remain on the “to-do list,” such as making an elegant webpage, getting the charts to upload […]
Rumors of ol’ El returning for summer 2017 have been percolating through meteorological echo chambers for the past few months, but in the past few days, mainstream media outlets like the New York Times have spilled the beans to the bourgeoisie and proletariat alike, alerting Americans of all walks of life that another El Nino […]
After such a cold, snowy winter and the strongest April windstorm in the Portland metro area since April 14, 1957, I’m sure many of you will be relieved to hear that tomorrow is shaping up to be the warmest day of the year! It’s a far cry from the mutant heat wave we saw last […]
I have a somewhat bad habit of overusing alliteration in my titles and posts, and this post marks the second consecutive post I’ve made a tongue-twisting title revolving around spring. But when you realize how many weather words begin with the letter s… supercell, sleet/snow/slush, all the stratus clouds, and even Sharknados 1-4 (rumor has it […]
Hi everybody, I’m back after a brief break from blogging! I’ve been working like mad on finding out how to automatically upload some of the model charts I’ve created to the internet, and I broke new ground today and finally did it! This means that now, you’ll be able to view some of the latest […]
Hi everybody! I apologize for the delay in posts over the past several days – I have been working very hard on my Grads scripts and have been trying to figure out how to get them online! For those who don’t know, Grads is a programming language used to plotted gridded datasets such as those […]
After a long and dark Pacific Northwest winter, even the biggest storm and snow fans look forward to the longer days of spring. And perhaps no day is anticipated more than the spring equinox, which is, astronomically speaking, the first day of spring. Yet, one of the biggest misconceptions in modern civilization has to be the idea […]
Yesterday evening, while biking to work (I work night shifts at my weather job), I heard the first robin in many months! The first chirp from a robin has traditionally been associated with the beginning of spring. This is apparent in two famous 19th century poems: Emily Dickinson’s “I Dreaded That First Robin So,” a […]
On Friday, the Washington Post published an article concerning a memo drafted by the Office of Management and Budget for the 2018 fiscal year. This memo proposed drastic cuts to NOAA that would lead to a 18% reduction in current funding. At a time when U.S. numerical weather prediction is falling behind the rest of […]
Not many people know that March, on average, is nearly as snowy as February for most of the Cascades and Olympics. Snoqualmie Pass, for example, averages 72 inches for February vs 71.7 inches for March. Yes, March does have an unfair advantage in terms of length, but with days rapidly becoming longer, storms becoming weaker, […]
