Friday, October 10, 2014 5:08 pm After a return to neutral conditions over the summer, we will likely see weak El Nino conditions for the 2014-2015 winter. At least that’s my prediction. And I will tell you why. There’s a wonderful, wonderful website hosted by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center that you can […]
Autumn Has Arrived
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:07 pm Good evening everybody, I just got back from my first day of school. I’m actually pretty exhausted, so this will be a quickie. Only nine more months to go… We officially had our Autumnal Equinox here in Seattle at 7:29 pm on Monday, September 22. I’m sure you all […]
Odile’s Rain
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:54 pm Hurricane Odile at peak intensity on 9/14/14 as a category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds and a central pressure near 922 mb. Cabo San Lucas is your typical Baha-Californian tropical paradise (technically it’s subtropical, but subtropical paradise just sounds… not as good as a tropical paradise, and Cabo […]
Summer’s Last Stand?
Thursday, September 4, 2014 4:14 pm Custer’s Last Stand – Mort Kunstler I had to do some refreshing on my American history to remember what Custer’s Last Stand was. I did some research, and it turns out that this Custer guy really hated Indians, so he decided to fight some (specifically the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, […]
A Convergence Zone to End All Convergence Zones
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 2:14 pm I’ve been wondering when we’d get a “zone to end all zones,” and this is the best one since the morning of December 18, 2008. I don’t think anything can top that one… I got 4-6 inches of snow and school was canceled. Our house also almost got struck […]
Here Comes The Rain
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:30 p.m. Here comes the sun… not. Although you wouldn’t know it, we are actually well above average for rainfall this month (and, come to think of it last month was above average in the rainfall department as well). This is due to Sea-Tac accumulating 0.50 inches of rain on the […]
Bárðarbunga – Is a Major Volcanic Eruption In The Cards?
Thursday, August 22, 201411:05 p.m. Bárðarbunga releasing steam from beneath the Vatnajökull Glacier. Photo Credit: Oddur Sigurdsson, Iceland Geological Survey. It’s safe to say that Iceland’s remote Bárðarbunga volcano doesn’t look like a typical volcano. Even though it is 6,591 feet tall, it has all but been completely consumed by the massive Vatnajökull glacier, with the only […]
Marine Pushes, and Their Effect on Summer High Temperatures
Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:03 p.m. We “only” reached 70 degrees today. At 6 degrees below average for a high temperature, it’s fairly cool, but not extraordinarily so. The last time we didn’t hit 70 was on July 24th, meaning it’s been nearly a month of consecutive 70 degree-or-higher days, with some days much higher […]
Lake Washington Beach Temperatures
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:27 p.m. Here fishy fishy One reason I love warm summers like the one we have been having is because of the excellent fishing they provide. When the water is warmer, the fish are hungrier, and thus grow to larger sizes. This was probably taken in 2004 +- a couple years, […]
Relief in Sight For Firefighters
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:11 a.m. Apparently, there’s been a pretty massive complex of wildfires in Eastern Washington over the past week I’ve been at camp. I’m finishing another day off and need to be back in the kitchen at 7 a.m., but I have enough time to write a brief blog. Here are all […]
