Wednesday, January 6, 2016 11:20 pm Richard Sherman looking ferocious during week 13 vs the Vikings Credit: seahawks.com I’ve been following several things lately: the return of rain to California, the thousands of earthquakes on the Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island, and even the slight, slight weakening of the El Niño in the tropical Pacific. It […]
Gigantic Pattern Change
Saturday, December 26, 2015 9:46 pm Hi everybody! I got back in Seattle late on the 22nd, and now that I’ve gotten through Christmas, I’m excited to start blogging again once more. We recently had a major, prolonged snow-producing pattern for our region. I actually went up to Snoqualmie Pass today for a job interview […]
Indonesia – Days 4-5
Sunday, December 12, 2015 8:49 pm Greetings from the Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia! We are finished with our stay at the Mirah Hotel in Bogor, and are now headed to Yogyakarta, which is ~260 miles to the ESE of Bogor on the island of Java. Bogor is a suburb of Jakarta. Yesterday, we went […]
In Indonesia!
Friday, December 11, 2015 4:38 pm Hello everybody! There’s been quite a bit of interesting weather lately in Seattle, and I haven’t been posting much. However, it is not because I have suddenly lost my interest for meteorology. That would be impossible. It is because I’ve been getting preparing, packing, traveling, and finally settling in […]
Stormy Week Ahead
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 10:15 pm Hey everybody. Sorry for being absent for over a week. It’s been a crazy past eight days here in Charlie-town, and when you add that to the extraordinarily boring weather we’ve had, you nearly almost always end up with a blog drought. Thankfully, the drought ends now, as the […]
Turning Colder!
Monday, November 23, 2015 1:19 pm Well, I got pretty busy this past week and the weekend after putting off all my work to deal with that windstorm. It wasn’t quite as big as I thought it was going to be, but it was still pretty windy around the area with 45-70 mph gusts throughout […]
A Very Stormy Tuesday!
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:34 am Things are really ramping up now throughout Western Washington. The all-important PDX-BLI gradient, which was forecast to max out at 14-18 hPa, is already at 18 hPa, and continues to slowly rise. There is a chance that the gradient could reach 19 hPa at some point today. Regardless of […]
Windstorm Update
Monday, November 16, 2015 4:44 pm It’s looking more and more like a significant windstorm may be in the works. The models are not as bullish about this storm as they were yesterday morning, but they are still showing very strong winds with widespread power outages possible. Charge your devices tonight! Water Vapor Image Taken […]
Damaging Windstorm Possible This Tuesday
Sunday, November 15, 2015 1:00 pm Wow, we have a lot to talk about. It’s been a very long time since the weather has been this exciting! Credit: WSDOT Flickr Page First off, the rain has died down around Western Washington and most rivers have receded below flood stage. The Snohomish River at Snohomish, The Skokomish […]
Torrential Rain In the Olympics, Drizzle In Everett, And Inadequate Rainshadow Communication
Friday, November 13, 2015 12:57 pm Credit: PRISM Group and Oregon Climate Service. Retrieved from Reddit (yup!) One of the most fascinating things about Pacific Northwest weather is how much our local terrain influences our climate. Just in the state of Washington, we have two mountain ranges that get gobs of snow, a massive ocean off our […]
