Wednesday, March 23, 2016 2:28 pm Every year, around the first week of March, springtime allergies hit me harder than a bottle of caffeine pills. For the majority of the winter, I’m totally fine, and then suddenly, my eyes are the wettest they’ve been since stupidly eating some absurdly hot chili pepper in Indonesia. Ten […]
Sunday Windstorm Review
Pi Day 2016 4:55 pm I apologize for not being in the blogosphere yesterday – I was up at Alpental introducing 5-year-olds to poles. I taught lessons up there this year on the weekends and had a spectacular time, and I’d highly recommend anybody who loves kids and skiing to consider teaching ski lessons up […]
Windstorm on Sunday?
Saturday, March 12, 2016 11:21 pm Just a really quick post… I got back home really late tonight and have to wake up in six hours to go hit the ski slopes and teach some ski lessons! We’ve got the potential for a strong windstorm on Sunday. There is some uncertainty with the strength and […]
Brief Southeast Sucker Review
Thursday, March 10, 2016 3:00 pm That “Southeast Sucker” I blogged about last night stormed ashore early this morning, and delivered a sucker punch to a wider area of the region than I initially forecast. The system actually ended up coming a little closer to our region than the models showed, so the I-5 corridor […]
The Southeast Sucker!
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 12:09 pm Meteorologists used to have very interesting names for different types of weather. I was introduced to the famed “Pineapple Express” back in elementary school, when it rained 5.02 inches at Sea-Tac during one incredibly rainy 5th grade day. Unfortunately, Pineapple Express seems to have fallen out of favor among […]
Seattle’s Rainiest Winter Ever
Monday, March 7, 2016 1:43 pm The Snohomish River topping its banks on December 9, 2015. Credit: Brie Hawkins I’ll be the first to admit that weather forecasters are often wrong. After all, weather forecasting is the only job where you can be wrong 90 percent of the time and keep your job. Still, this winter has […]
The Transition of Seasons
Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:17 pm I apologize for the delay in blog posts and Facebook updates. Yes, I’ve been busy, but moreover, there hasn’t been much weather going on. I’ve had trouble thinking of things to write about, so I’ve started posts and just never finished them. Perhaps one day I will. Then, it […]
Snow To Return To The Cascades
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 6:15 pm It was a bad week for the snow-lovers of the Pacific Northwest. Over the past couple days, we’ve had very moist and relatively mild flow coming into our region from the WSW. The result? Heavy rains on the Olympics and Northern Cascades, with much lighter precipitation in the Seattle […]
Everything You Need To Know About Gravitational Waves
Thursday, February 11, 2016 8:12 pm Although it has been my most enduring, meteorology was not my first foray into the natural sciences. When I was in preschool, I was obsessed with volcanoes and astronomy, two things I still love today. I clearly remember taking a trip to the “Big Island” of Hawaii when I […]
Did El Niño Come? It Depends Who You Ask.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 11:14 am Earlier this week, a massive ridge of high pressure settled over the West Coast, giving us clear skies, light winds, and extremely warm temperatures, especially if you got above the humongous inversion that was insulating many lowland regions from the extreme warmth. Many places were extraordinarily warm; Quillayute on the […]
