On Saturday, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping formally agreed to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement, marking a great leap forward in tackling global warming. Before Saturday, 24 countries accounting for 1.08% of global greenhouse gas had ratified the agreement. For the agreement to go into effect, 55 countries producing at least 55% […]
One More Week Of Rain, Then Warm and Sunny!
Anybody missing the heat? If so, I’ve got some good news for you! It’s coming back! Now, before you start researching air conditioners online, know that this will not be a “heat wave” like the ones we saw to finish off our August. Rather, it will be a “warm wave,” with high temperatures in the 70s […]
Hurricane Hermine Bearing Down On Florida
It looks like Florida’s hurricane drought will come to an end after all. After so much uncertainty about what was then Invest 99L – whether it would become a major hurricane or fail to make it to a tropical depression – it looks like Florida will see its first hurricane since Wilma stormed ashore southwestern […]
Is There Life On Proxima Centauri b?
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, a paper was published in Nature announcing the discovery of Proxima Centauri b (also known as Proxima b), a new, potentially habitable planet orbiting our closest extrasolar star, Proxima Centauri. Not since Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet” status by some grumpy astronomers has there been so much buzz in […]
Will Invest 99L End Florida’s Hurricane Drought?
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz in the meteorological community about “Invest 99L,” a large, disorganized area of convection stretching northeastward from Jamaica and Hispaniola with a weak center of circulation near the Turks & Caicos. On satellite, it looks like a train wreck of a system, but many models take it straight […]
Summer’s Last Hurrah?
Good morning everybody! Apologies for the delay in forecasts, blog posts, and pictures recently! Today and Friday may very well be “Summer’s Last Hurrah.” Sure, we might have a few small “yays” in September, but these two days look like they’ll be the hottest days for the next nine months. We’ve got a thermal trough off the […]
Turning Up The Heat Again!
I spent a long time trying to write a creative first sentence for this post. I was trying to make a joke comparing thermal troughs to stock market bubbles, as they bear (no pun intended) some similarities. After all, once a thermal trough has passed to our east, temperatures crash, just like the market corrects […]
Relief On The Way, But More Heat Next Week
The past three days have been exceptionally hot throughout the Pacific Northwest. On Thursday, the coast sizzled in 90 degree heat, with Quillayute hitting 96, Port Angeles and Sequim hitting 94, and Forks hitting 93. While Quillayute and Forks average a day or two at 90 per year, 90s are practically unheard of along the […]
Record Heat Today
Today is going to be REALLY hot. Like, mid-upper 90s throughout Western Washington hot. Places exposed to warm easterly downslope flow and isolated from the water could even soar into the triple digits today, and I’d be surprised if anybody in Willamette Valley stayed in the double digits today. First, let’s go over some of […]
A Very Hot Week!
Good morning everybody! In some ways, this summer and last summer are polar opposites. Last summer, we saw heat wave after heat wave throughout June and July, and this, coupled with a historically poor snowpack from the previous winter, led to water shortages throughout the region and extremely high fire danger throughout much of the […]
