Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
I sincerely apologize for the delay in posts. I’ve had a very busy time lately – I moved to a new place in Northeast Portland (the Woodlawn neighborhood, to be precise) and have had very little time to blog. But now I have a much more relaxed schedule and can once again blog to my […]
Back in November, the United States launched the GOES-R (now called the GOES-16), a revolutionary new satellite that would replace one of the current GOES satellites and usher in the next era in geostationary satellite technology. After several months of testing, we finally have our first test images from the satellite, and they are absolutely incredible. […]
I apologize for not posting as much as I would like recently! I’ve been very busy tweaking the site and preparing for WeatherTogether’s booth at WeatherFest, which is part of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) annual conference. As luck would have it, the AMS conference is in Seattle this winter, so it definitely made sense […]
A major pattern change is in store for us next week. After dealing with very cold temperatures and heaps of snow for those lucky folks in Portland, we will see temperatures in the 50s, snow levels above 7000 feet, and very heavy rain as an atmospheric river plows through the Pacific Northwest. There is still […]
Well, I’m certainly regretting leaving Portland to come up to Seattle. Our heat in our house isn’t working, so I decided to flee up to my parents’ house in Seattle for warmth. Had I known that Portland was going to get a foot of snow Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, I definitely would have stayed! NW Oregon […]
It’s been a tough winter for snow-lovers living in the Puget Sound region. It’s not because we haven’t seen any snow – we saw a widespread snowstorm December 8-9 that dropped an inch of snow at Sea-Tac, and a persistent but highly localized convergence zone over South Seattle delivered another 3 inches to Sea-Tac in […]
While we’ve been cool and dry here in Western Washington over the past few days, areas of Southern Oregon and Northern California have been getting absolutely pummeled with snow! With modified arctic air already in place, a system that was still strengthening as it made landfall stormed ashore the Oregon/California border last night and dropped […]
In some of my previous blog posts this week, I talked about the potential for a major, extended arctic blast that could hang around for the first two weeks of January. Unfortunately for snow lovers, there has been a massive change in the models over the past couple days towards a much warmer pattern. We […]
As expected, the weak low that passed through from the NNW through Southwestern Washington last night brought scattered snow showers to parts of the area, with the highest amounts being in the Central Sound area between Seattle and Tacoma where a weak but very persistent convergence zone formed. There was an incredible gradient in snow […]
I’ve been posting relatively brief “Snupdates” on WeatherTogether’s Facebook Page tonight, but I’m seeing some interesting new developments on radar and thought I’d write a more in depth blog post about what I’m seeing and it’s consequences for snow to ring in the New Year. Let’s start by looking at the current radar image. This is […]
