Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:50 am I think of my commitment to school like a sinusoidal function – specifically, a sine wave shifted 90 degrees to the right so that it becomes a cosine wave. I tend to start off school hot. I’m well rested from summer, and I can’t wait to get back into […]
Our Sobering Snow Year
Friday, January 9, 2015 12:05 pm If you read my winter weather outlook for this winter on WeatherOn, you’ll note that I predicted warmer-than-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation for this year in the Pacific Northwest. The precipitation has been near normal or slightly less, but temperatures have been well above normal. When you have well-above-normal temperatures, […]
A Major Breakthrough in Numerical Weather Prediction for the United States
Monday, January 5, 2015 1:10 pm There is currently major flooding on the Tolt and Snoqualmie Rivers near Carnation, and I had just Google’d ‘NWS’ to get to the Seattle NWS homepage (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/ is too much work) when I stumbled upon a rather important headline. Retrieved from the original press release from NOAA. No hyperbole can […]
A Review Of The Windstorm
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 1:46 pm Last Thursday night, right after I had finished my final, my mom and I decided to trek up to Sandy Hook, which is a little coastal community situated on Cultus Bay on the southern tip of Whidbey Island, to catch what ended up being the biggest windstorm of the […]
Major Windstorm Tomorrow?
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:30 pm I’ve got one more final tomorrow at 11:30 am, but here I am, blogging away my anxiety. Why on Earth would I put 40% of my grade on the line to write a stupid weather blog (and yes, I’m going to need all the time I have to study […]
Crazy Snow in Buffalo
Friday, November 21, 2014 9:58 pm We have a bad habit of making a big deal out of the white stuff in Seattle, and it seems to get worse with each passing ‘blizzard.’ It’s all too predictable; the chains on buses strike sparks with the ground as the snow that was seemingly ‘promised’ by the […]
The Polar Vortex – Winter is Coming
Monday, November 10, 2014 12:39 pm I think the above meme explains all you really need to know about the weather this coming week. But I shall oblige your curiosity and explain the meteorological situation that has led us to our first real chill of the winter. First, let’s learn what a “polar vortex” is. […]
A Historic Storm
Sunday, November 9, 2014 5:04 pm Every once in a while, a storm so unbelievably massive, so breathtakingly powerful, and so horrendously destructive appears in the models that you literally go into cardiac arrest. This is one of those storms. I’ve seen many crazy, crazy storms in the models. I’ve seen gigantic 930 hPa “bombs” […]
My Winter Weather Outlook
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:02 pm Hey everybody, I actually just produced a winter weather outlook for WeatherOn, and you can find it here. Long story short, our weak El Nino played a major role in my forecast, and the previous existence of the “Blob” did to a lesser extent. Snow in Eugene Enjoy! Charlie
Windstorm on the Way
Saturday, October 25, 2014 1:12 p.m. First off, sorry for not being the most punctual poster as of late. I was actually recently contacted by the University of North Carolina of all places to write a weather blog using some of their graphics for WeatherOn. I really hope it will put uss “On” the map. Get […]
